When you are stuck for inspiration it helps to use a certain structure/form to help get you started. This first poem by Georgina B is an example of how you can use questions and answers as the basis of a poem. By repeating lines, the poem is also given a rhythm and structure.
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Are you married?
Are you married?
No me neither!
Are you engaged?
Are you engaged?
No me neither!
Are you cool?
Are you cool?
No me neither!
Are you a girl?
Are you a girl?
No me neither!
Are you popular?
Are you popular? No me neither!
Are you single? Are you single?.............................
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Yerrrr........Me too!
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In the second poem (below) Georgina has repeated 'I know a.....'. To bring the poem to a close she has changed the second to last verse to: 'The lady/man....'. She has then finished by adding a personal couple of lines about herself. To add to this Georgina has also used a rhyming pattern.
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I know a girl who can touch her toes.
I know a boy who picks his nose!
I know a girl who likes to do art.
I know a boy in my class who goes in a cart!
I know a boy who likes to dig.
I know a girl who is such a pig!
I know a boy who likes mice.
I know a girl who does not like rice!
I know a girl who likes to fly kites.
I know a boy who puts up the fights!
I know a girl who fancies Wain!
I know a boy who just is a pain!
The lady down the bakery scratches her hair.
The man in the shop looks like a bear!
The lady in the fier team is quiet scary.
The man in the police force is very hairy!
But most of all it has got to be me.
Because I do EVERYTHING!
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Why not try writing on the monthly theme starting with questions like 'How?' What?' or 'Who?'. Or/and try using a repeated start to each line such as : 'I like...' 'I don't like....' 'I wish....'
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A big thank you to Georgina B from St Tudy CE VA Primary School. You can read more of her writing at www.bodminbookworm-sttudy.blogspot.com .
Wednesday 29 October 2008
Monday 29 September 2008
Inspiration from Moira Andrew
Moira Andrew is a children's poet, writer, teacher and lecturer who runs creative writing workshops for schools. Her website is http://www.moiraandrew.com/. She has kindly let us publish the following poem to help inspire your own writing:
Recipe for a sandcastle
Take one sunny day,
a wide empty shore
and lots of sparkling waves.
Add one red spade,
a ton of golden sand
and a bucketful of sea-water.
Mix well, build high,
decorate with pearly shells
and top with a fluttering flag.
Bake under a yellow sun
where the tide tickles your toes
and you have made
a sandcastle!
(Please note: this poem is the Copyright of Moira Andrew and cannot be reproduced without her permission)
Take one sunny day,
a wide empty shore
and lots of sparkling waves.
Add one red spade,
a ton of golden sand
and a bucketful of sea-water.
Mix well, build high,
decorate with pearly shells
and top with a fluttering flag.
Bake under a yellow sun
where the tide tickles your toes
and you have made
a sandcastle!
(Please note: this poem is the Copyright of Moira Andrew and cannot be reproduced without her permission)
Perhaps you could try writing a recipe style poem/story on a holiday theme. Or a recipe for a scary poem/story - (for example: one hairy spider, two wailing ghosts and a pointy hat witch...........)
Please share your writing by emailing bodminbookworm@aol.com . Let us know if you found Moira Andrew's poem helpful and send us your Holiday/All things scary recipe style writing.
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