3. Circle Poem
Sky Diving A circle poem starts with a word or thing, and then it
Adrenaline expands to more words connecting with the subject.
For example: Banana>Fruit>Health>Gym. This poem
Shock can go on forever, a word always has a matching word.
Electricity Although when you feel like you need to finish off your
poem, you have to make sure your words/things start
Energy leading to a word that matches or is similar to the first
Science one. I enjoy these, because I love seeing how one word
can grow into many other matching words or subjects.
Education I recommend these for people who are looking to play
School around with words, subjects, and not speak about life
or emotion.
Pilot School
Fly a Plane
4. 2x Bio Poems
Andrew A bio poem is very fun. It describes something,
Genius, Talented, Hard Working, Non-Risk Taker but usually it describes somebody or yourself.
Arthur E. Alexandra E. Alex E. You start with your name or subject on the first
Who Feels Hope, Power, Inspiration, Scared line. On the next line (line 2) you list four
Who Loves Candy, Electronics, Family, Beaches, Food, Facebook descriptive traits about you, someone else, or
Who Needs Food, Internet, Sleep, Colon, Fun, Education, Job an object. On line 3, you specify if you have a
Who Fears Owls, Death, Trouble, Problems sibling, if you don’t have one, you can write
Would like to see Friends who left ZIS, Tropical animals, Air Heads Factory, 18+ Club “sibling of no one”. On life 4 you describe
Resident of Moscow, Zurich, Canada whether you/other/subject is a lover of
Ehrensperger something/somebody. On line 5 you have to
describe your feeling starting with “Who feels”.
Line 6, 7, 8 you say “Who needs”, “Who gives”,
“Who fears” (in order). In line 9 you just
describe who you would like to see. On line 10
Koshka just say “Resident of …”(The city you live in).
Aggressive, Playful, Beautiful, Spoiled On the final line (11) , you just write your last
Cat of Family Ehrensperger name.
Food, Toy Mice, People
This poem is fun with you and your friends, it
Loneliness, Excitement, Joy
describes a full personality of somebody or
Loud Noises, Mean People, Rain your self. I created 2 bio poems, one of myself
Managed to walk to the train station and into Coop and one of my cat. Bio poems are one of the
Wanted to get many toys, Food, Attention most creative poems in my perspective, but I
Adliswil, Zurich would rather listen to emotional poems.
(No Last Name)
5. List Poem
What Bugs Me Poem: A list poem is a poem connected
to a subject, the one I chose is
When my cat jumps on my door handle at night connected to the subject “what
and wakes me up. bugs me”. When you chose the
When I wake up late to school and don’t feel like subject, you list full sentences
speaking.
about it, for example, “it bugs be
When I am not trusted or nobody believes me when I …”. These poems reveal
because I start laughing when the situation is
serious. what you like or hate about
When I am always stressed. something, or just express in
When the internet stops working rarely after a
one big poem, just spilling out
strong storm, and can’t do my homework. all your thoughts about it or
When my siblings pick a fight with me. he/her.
When my mom comes back from grocery shopping I like these poems since they can
and I don’t have my favorite drinks. include comedy or just a real
When my cat bites me in the night. feeling/emotion, and these are
always the best to listen to.
6. Found Poem
A found poem is a poem made from
news paper/magazines. You would make
a title for example: “diet”. Then you
would find words in the news
paper/magazine that are similar to the
main title and make sentences out of the
words related to the main title. The title
has to also be from a news paper article
or, you can start the poem off with the
title similarities so that people would be
able to guess the subject. It always has a
theme.
These are fun to do, but also challenging
to find the proper words, it might take
some time to finish, but at the end, the
poem sound amazing. This is one of my
favorites, they can express feeling too,
they are like any other poem, but are
related to their subject.
7. 2x Diamante Poems
Instructions on how to make:
Line One: Noun “A.”
Cats Line Two: Two adjectives describing the noun “A.”
Unique, Abnormal Line Three: Three “ing” or “ed” words describing
Jumping, Outgoing, Feared noun “A.”
Exhausting, Intruding, Behaved, Tamed Line Four: Four nouns. Two describing the noun “A”.
Trained, Walked, Open Minded Two describing noun “B.”
Big/Small, Friendly, Fast Line Five: Three “ing” or “ed” words describing
Dog noun “B.”
Line Six: Two adjectives describing the noun “B.”
Healthy Line Seven: Noun “B”
Good, Horrible
Paying, Scared, Contaminated These are fun, they can express anything in a
Mentally Jailed, Daily Dieted, Deadly Things few sentences. These can have any emotion, or
Starving, Crying, Disgusting they can just describe anything like “Pizza,
Dangerous, Misleading houses, games, cities”. These are fun for me
Diet sometimes, but not always, they can et difficult
with finding certain things to complete the
poem. I wrote about my pet, and health
because those are things I like, or find scary.
8. 4 Seasons:
4x Haiku Poems
Haiku Writing Instructions:
Summer:
First sentence: 5 syllables.
Hot and fantastic. Second Sentence: 7 syllables.
Many flowers growing. Third sentence: 5 syllables. Starts in
Summer is the best. 5 and ends in 5 syllables.
Winter: ----------It can keep going!----------
The coffee maker. Haiku poems are very easy to make,
Steaming a cappuccino. and very fun. I can make one in
Best in the winter. minimum 2 minutes and they sound
Fall: perfect. They could represent
Leaves turning dark brown anything, and keep following a syllable
Many people don't go out order (5, 7, 5, 7, 5…) These are very
Wearing large, thick coats emotional or usually to me, reflect
times from the past. I write them
Spring:
usually about real life and make them
Many flowers bloom
realistic as possible. I don’t like making
The holiday is coming fake poems with no real meaning.
The heat is rising These are on of my favorite poems.
9. Free Verse Poem
Trustworthy:
By: Andrew Ehrensperger
I never knew if I were to be trusted once more This poem out of all is the most creative and emotional
And never again will I know. poem. It can include all poetry elements like: Hyperbole,
Will people forgive me or not? Simile, onomatopoeia, etc. These poems get to be as long
I do tell the truth and I mean it, as they want, and they are one of the most popular poems
I try to get my peers to believe it.
since in these poem, you can express anything! Personally,
And ever since I have lied, a web of confusion has grown.
Knowing people won’t trust me or glare at me as a liar, I read some free verse poems at home, and I got goose
I don’t know if I will be trusted like others too. bumps since some were sad or just gave me a shocking
I tell something true and try to convince others it’s not a lie, feeling. In class we wrote one each, and this is the one I
They turn away and laugh. wrote on the left. It’s actually been written from the heart,
“Hahaha!” would be the laugh of no trust, something I feel bad about and want to change. Reading a
And a joke would I be behind peoples back poem to everybody is scary especially if it’s real and
I feel humiliated and angry personal, I struggled to do so, so I passed, others had the
And my blood pumps fast, courage to read theirs, some were fantastic, I got goose
Will I ever be trusted? bumps from so many. These poems are so creative, some
Depression strikes me as not even my family believes my stories. can even make you cry, but of course I don’t want to
One day I will find a person who will trust me and not laugh in my face
experience too much emotion. I did go on several websites
A friend who will believe me, and ask me more about my stories.
Everybody lied in their life that told so much, some people were drug addicts, or had
But nobody did as much as me. teen pregnancy, and those poems were very emotional.
It’s not honorable to be the biggest liar, but depressing, These are very fun to write in class and read them out, but
But change happens and all bad will be forgotten next time I will try to do so if I don’t get nervous. I suggest
A spark of trust will ignite and soon spread world wide everybody should write free verse poems sine they are the
I never knew if I were to be trusted once more. most interesting and powerful poems that break through
an emotional boundary.