Welcome to professor Kiweenie's blog…um…class! Since I can’t see you I’ll have to trust that you all have taken your seats so we can begin.

This class is special because it is my first online course! To celebrate I thought that we could do something fun and creative to start. Today we are going to work on poems!

Great poetry is usually something very personal to the writer. Poems are supposed to come from your heart, but that doesn’t mean they have to be romantic. It means that they should be meaningful to you, but they don't necessarily have to be serious. You could write about something funny that your cat does, or what a friend means to you. You could even write about something that makes you unhappy (sometimes it’s good to get that stuff out and it can make great poetry) Any subject you find important can be turned into a poem.

Also, poetry comes in many forms. You might be most familiar with the rhyming style, and that’s great, but it doesn’t have to rhyme if you don’t want to. Here’s one I wrote in rhyming style:

Green bugs, red bugs, yellow ones or blue

I’ll eat them up in a quiche or a stew

I don’t care if they crawled or flew

As long as I can chew them two by two!

And here’s one that doesn’t rhyme:

I search the ground

Everyday

For bugs to eat

But while I’m down there

I notice

New grass

A budding flower

During lunch

I see

The

Seasons

Change

Nature is always a good inspiration for poems. I wrote that one after seeing the first blooming flower this spring.

Now it’s your turn!

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