Crafting Poems

Poetry is the ability to make us see an ordinary object as though we had never seen it before.~Edwin Arlington Robinson

Poem Invitations to Write

1. Poems of Address
2. Ancestor poems
3. Art Inspired poem
4. Blues Poem
5. Bottom of the Heart poem
6. Color poem
7. Contrast & Opposites poem
8. Dialogue poem
9. Poem about Family
10. Ode to Food, and food poems art visual presentation
11. Imagery poem focusing on mood
12. Jazz themed poem
13. Landform or Body of Water poem
14. List poem
15. Memory poem
16. Metaphor poem
17. Monologue poem
18. Narrative poem
19. Object poem
20. Opposites poem
21. Persona & Personified Object poem
22. Personification poem, “Five things about the lake,” “Mirror”
23. Personification poem, “Meeting Midnight” and personified object
24. Place poem
25. Re-visioned fairy tale poem
26. Rhetorical question poem
27. Sectioned poem, silent, loud, eternal,
    1. Seeing the same thing in different ways: Monet’s paintings
    2. Using Stanzas and Sections
28. Simile poem
29. Poem focusing on sound
30.  Sports or Activity poem
31.  Things I Left Behind poem
32. The Tree in My Mind poem
33. Time of Day poem
34. Poem With  Repetition
35. Weather poem

Group Poem/ Creating a poem together

Craft

• Denotation & Connotation
• Figurative language
• Group poem structure ideas
• Lenses for reading poetry
• Observe your community
• Patterns of wordiness in poetry
• Poetry Toolbox
• Tips for Writing
• Which is more poetic and why?
• Writing ideas for one sense

Developing Ideas

• Additional poem structure ideas
• Definitions of poetry 
• Guessing Metaphors
• Example of lines and emotions
• Poetic elements in other forms of writing
• Reducing  wordiness
• Revising to fit purpose
• Sensory exercise