My challenge to get you to write poems about writing poems went WILDFIRE ! I got so many in my email box. I have loved reading them all and it took ages and ages. If I didn’t write you a letter back I might have missed your email so let me know.
I got fabulous poems from classes – from Westmere School, from the Samoan Unit at Richmond Road School and from Te Rerenga School in The Coromandel.
What you showed me is poems can do anything. There are no poem rules! Poetry is PLAY!
And when you read a poem you get to think and feel all kinds of things!
Thank you young poets. This is a record post because it was just too hard choosing. I had to leave heaps of poems I loved out because my blog would CRASH with a MOUNTAIN of amazing poems.
I am sending a copy of my book The Letterbox Cat to Jimmy at Westmere School.
Daniel wrote his poem in the sand! (age 8, Year 4, Adventure School)
Writing Poems
Poems can be as BIG as
an elephant or as small
as a fly. Poems don’t have
to make any sense, they
don’t even need to rhyme.
By Marco age 9, Westmere School
The Poem About a Poem
Poems can erupt out of your mouth
like an exploding volcano.
Poems can make you drift away to sleep
like a cosy blanket.
By Charlie age 9, Westemere School
The Poem Train
An idea finds the paper
Like a car finds the road.
The pencil
Dances across the page
Like a ballerina
On a stage.
The full stops are like train stops
Ending the ride
But starting a new one.
By: William Sherborne Age: 9 Year: 5, St Andrews College, Christchurch
What Poems Can DO
Poems can go through your head
Like a stampede
at full speed.
Or
Like a worm wriggling
through a muddy hole.
Or
Like a mole
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By Jimmy age 10, Westmere School
Catch the Kite
The ideas fly
in the sky
with the Haast eagle.
They twitch and they turn
they tumble and learn.
They fall like blossom
into the arms of a possum.
Who brings them to me
on his bended knee.
Spine
Nose
Flyingline
and I write
about
the stretched out
kite.
Joshua 12 years old Medbury School
Poem
My pencil is going blunt
As I write down my ideas like a hurricane
Where will this poem go?
To a forest,
To a wonderland,
I will never know till I write it.
The word chain is getting started
My poem is making sense.
Finally, it’s coming together
I need to proof-read it
Reading it over and over again
Punctuation check has not been done
Taking my time
Hours have been used
I love the feeling of my tired fingers writing away.
My library chair getting uncomfortable.
My poem digs to my heart as quick as Usain Bolt runs the 100m sprint
But it’s
Done
Sophie, age: 10, Selwyn House School
Poems make me want to…
Poems make me want to dance
And skip and jump and play
Poems make me want to sing
And read them every day
Writing them is like
Unfolding a mystery
And everything about them
Makes me feel free
Poems make me want to dance
And skip and jump and play
Poems make me want to sing
And read them every day
Poems make me want to laugh
And have a lot of fun
And I will always remember them
When the day is done
Nell, Age: 8, Year: Four, Homeschool
Poems
Poems can be funny like David walliams.
Poems can be sad like a depressed lad.
A poem could happy like a baby in a clean nappy.
Poems can be mad like your step dad.
Poems can be silly like a fish with arms.
Poems can be hairy like a dairy.
Poems can be evil like a vampire.
Poems can be boring and make you start snoring.
Poems can be annoying like pinata with no candy in it.
Poems can be violent like nine eleven.
Poems can be crazy like a lazy man made run a mile.
By Henry age 10, Westmere School
Mind Blank
I am currently writing a poem
Well, I am trying to
I don’t think it’s working,
I am trying to write something completely original
Today that’s just not happening,
Hmm, maybe…
Beyond the horizon?
No, too dull
Oh, I know!
Feel the wind blow
Ugh, everyone’s used that
This is useless
I am absolutely, one hundred percent stuck
Megan, Year 6, age 10, St Andrew’s College
Some Poems
Some poems explode like the big bang.
Some poems crack like an egg shell.
Some poems slither out of my mouth like a person sliding down a water slide.
Some poems are as quiet as a library… shhhhhhhhh
Some poems are as tricky and confusing as 15,376 divided by 6.39.
Some poems help you as much as a girl helping an old lady across the road.
All poems are from around the world.
Some poems are as fast as a cheetah
or as slow
as a
sloth
reading
this
p
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m.
By Renee C, age 10, Westmere School
Poems
Poems.
Poems can be long,
Poems can be short.
Poems can be beautiful,
Poems can be bored.
Poems can be mad,
Poems can be glad.
Poems!
By Layla age 9, Westmere School
The Best Poem
Poems pop playfully through my brain
like popcorn popping out of a plane.
Poems CRASH and MASH in my head
like a racing fire, spreading red.
Poems creep and peep on the page
like a rat sneaking out of its cage.
By Flynn W age 9, Westmere School
Isabella, age 10, Westmere School
A Poem
A poem … can paint a scene in your head.
It makes you feel you’re in a world of paradise
A poem lights a fire deep inside you.
A poem changes a caterpillar into a butterfly.
Elijah Year 4, Te Rerenga School in The Coromandel
The Magic of a Poem
A poem can open a magical world for you, it can make you happy or sad.
Poems can rhyme, shock you, even make you say why, some leave you to laugh or cry.
A poem can make you like a snowflake, soft and light, it can make you someone running on the beach, happy and hot.
A poem can do so many things, but it can always do one thing.
It can always make you relax.
By Charlie Year 5, Te Rerenga School in The Coromandel
Jackson, age 10, Westmere School
Ruby, age: 9, Selwyn House School
Poets
Poets are agile
in their own way
their hand slides
across the page
or keyboard
as a stream
of ideas
flow through
their heads
the poets work
waiting to be published
on the next website
or poetry magazine
Harry, age 10, St Andrew’s College
Poem
Pen glides across the page
Ideas pop in
More words across the page
A rhythm starts going
Rub out a line
Start over new
Read it
Check it
Good enough to get through
Sharpen up the pencil
Get a cup of water
Grip more onto the pencil
As it gets shorter
More words across the page
Add the finishing touches
Shut the book
Close the door
One more poem has been made
Hayden, age 11, St Andrew’s College
A Poem is a Living Thing
A poem is a waterfall
gushing, slushing
forever changing.
It runs
it leaps
it soars
it flies
it laughs
it cries.
A poem is a living thing.
By Isabel age 10, Westmere School
A Poem Can
A poem can be as vicious as a terrifying tiger
or as beautiful as a butterfly fluttering by.
It can be as fast as a cheetah having a blast
or as slow as a snail sliding past.
A poem can twist
a poem can turn.
A poem can freeze
a poem can burn.
A poem can be anything in the world
as long as you use the right words.
By Jamie C age 10, Westmere School
Rhythm and Rhymes
Words coming out of my brain
goes around and around like a hurricane.
Verbs fly like they rage.
Verbs trapped in a cage
roar like
a lion.
Birds fly
like an
airplane.
Light shines
bright
as
a
lighthouse.
By Kingston age 8, Samoan Unit, Richmond Road School
By Philipp, age 9, Samoan Unit, Richmond Road School
By Alani age 9, Samoan Unit, Richmond Road School
Poems
Poems are tricky and
Poems are hard, but
Poems are nice like
my palm poems.
By Jada L age 9, Samoan Unit, Richmond Road School
Boh, age 10, Westmere School
Charlie, age 9, Westmere School
By Dante age 10, Samoan Unit, Richmond Road School
The Life of You and Me
Poems are swirling around my head like a hurricane.
Poems are tricky
Poems are hard,
They sometimes go a little bit fast.
Poems are sometimes scary
or sometimes funny.
They can make you say words that are verbs.
My life is a crime every day.
My poems come out of my mouth the same way.
By Nani age 10, Samoan Unit Westmere School
Stina, Year 5, Te Rerenga School in The Coromandel
A Poem
A poem can make you feel like a magic dolphin playing and splashing.
It will take you in to wonderland
Or slide you down a rainbow.
A poem can open the door or reality, it will take you into the world of beyond.
It will smile at you when you read it.
It can toss you up into the clouds and draw a pattern in your head.
It can show you your own world and it will tell you your own story.
Julia Year 4, Te Rerenga School in The Coromandel
A poem can open a window in your mind that leads you into a new magical new world.
A poem makes you feel as light as a snow white feather, drifting in the wind.
A poem gives you inspiration to do what you want to do.
A poem can remind you of a special memory buried deep down inside of you.
A poem can show you that anything is possible if you try hard enough.
Poems are capable of so many things…
By Ellie Year 5, Te Rerenga School in The Coromandel
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