Attempt at Poetry Writing

Sound

Floating, fluttering way up high
Gracing us with your ethereal presence
Tweeting, shrieking casting shadows
Vanishing slowly, beautiful evanescence


Ode to candlelight

You startle the dark
From a tiny spark
Burn so bright
Exuding delight

Warm to be near
Holding strong through the years
Even when Shakespeare
Couldn’t write for tears

You were burning bright
Providing him with candlelight
A beacon of pure hope
Glowing through the dark night

Now in a technological world
Your alone and unheard
You are still romantically superior
Your truly dazzling, unified exterior



Hell

Hell is an angry fist
That chooses to speak in violence
Hell is a burning loathing
Which simmer’s through the silence

Hell is loss of freedom
Through shackles self imposed
Hell is a burning fire in the mind
Sickening satanic seed that grows

Hell knows no love
Hell knows no shame
Hell knows no grace
Hell welcomes blame

Opposites

Where electric eyes and exhaustion meet
Where friendly and grizzly faces compete
Ever smouldering ever disappearing
Always waiting always leaving

Turning around, standing still
Ever calm, ever chasing the thrill
Always forgiving, always holding fast
Never burning, always a blast

Polar opposites meet in the middle
To solve the equation complete the riddle
Tiring of extremities the central home
Where integrity waits solid as stone

Café Delight

Friendly little eatery
For meat eater or veggie
Eggs Benedict with hollandaise sauce
Or tea ’n’ toast with no remorse
Healthy porridge and fresh fruit
Or sumptuous bacon, with beans and sausage to boot
Skinny breakfast for the waistline conscious
Or calorific extra quid special with fried potatoes

Penguin on melting ice cap


Crack, crack ‘Oh no! Oh no!’
Ice splitting beneath my toes
‘This is it! My time is nigh!’
Not ready to say goodbye

Musings over what I’ve done
Realities are crystal when you’re going down
Racing thoughts quicker than time
Soon to be never more mine


Stand in the middle its safe there
Please don’t melt and leave me bare!
Alas a floating fantastic drift wood
Save me from this impending melting doom on which I am stood!!!!






I definitely felt that the use of imagery for inspiration worked best for me setting off lots of associations in my mind making me feel really creative, developing my thought perhaps further than the other modes of inspiration. I also surprisingly enjoyed using the newspaper article for inspiration which so happened to be food related!! So maybe that ended up being more of a sensory inspired poem in the end, never the less quite a good idea to use newspaper articles giving children the choice of what they would like to make a poem out of.

Writing on demand was quite difficult and made me realise the pressure that this could put on children in the classroom, it is a big ask and the importance of providing inspiration is integral to avoid children musing over how difficult it is and how they are unable to do it. As well as using these themes as starting points it takes a great deal more thought and accuracy to master a poem particularly if you’re looking at rhyme too. Further to this the rhyming inspiration was not the greatest spur for me top write a poem it seemed slightly formulaic. On this note I think I would make a poetry lesson quite open trying to appeal to the child with something which is relevant to them…..

KS2 Poetry Lesson

The lesson would begin with showing how poetry can be shown in different forms. Then I would show them a musical rap which uses rhyme. This would help the children to understand the beat required in rhythm and rhyme in poetry. One musical rap which was used in my placement at Southville Primary School was taught to the children first and then replayed with a gap in the lyrics for the children to fill in (getting them to elaborate on the theme). The theme of the rap was ‘What would you take to space as a representation of the world today?’. The class would be asked to get into groups and form their own poems based on the original rap template, this would inspire them to think of words which fitted in with the beat and timing. The groups would be told they were to perform their poems to the class, giving them incentive to work collaboratively and creatively. I think performance can often heighten creativity and motivate children to apply more effort.

After this activity the children would be allocated to groups, 1- Sound station (inspiration be sound) 2 –newspaper cuttings 3- inspiration from imagery 4- Form and structure (lots of examples of poetry for them to model theirs on). They would then be asked to create their very own original poems from the prompts provided.

the space idea is great, and i like your poetry!