Write About Yourself and Others:
Someday Poems:
Begin each line with the word Someday... and complete it with a wish you have. Make the first two or three lines say something about your everyday wishes and slowly move away from yourself to the world in general. You may end the poem with the word Someday....
Student examples:
SOMEDAY...
Someday I will play the guitar
Someday I will have a job
Someday I will get married
Someday I will have kids
Someday I will be rich
Someday I will be noticed
---Melissa Manor (Grade 10)
One Window Is All I Need... Poems:
Begin your poem with the line One window is all I need...,and continue to write about this imaginary window in a personal way.
Student examples:
ONE WINDOW IS ALL I NEED
One window is all
I need
To see what lies ahead for me
To lose myself in love
For a connection to my inner world
To see myself for who I am
And be able to make changes.
---Tierra Jones (Grade 10)
ONE WINDOW IS ALL I NEED...
to see the world
to reveal myself
to imagine adventures
to return to myself
and live.
---Alex Buffington (Grade 10)
WRITING ABOUT OTHERS:
When you write about others, pick one important thing about them. Keep the focus positive.
Line #1: The
important thing about (name) is (most striking attribute)
Line #2: S/he is also ________(use as many lines as you need)
Last line: But the most important thing about (name) is (repeat Line #1)
Student example:
As you become comfortable writing poetry, you will find you will want to change the format and work on your own. This is great! The following student example came from such a growth:
THE NEW WORLD
Over 300 years
ago,
my grandfather of many greats
moved from one world to another,
sailed across the Atlantic
and settled in Virginia.
He must have felt as
Christopher Columbus,
discovering a new world.
England to "The New World"
Not too terribly far apart,
but different in all ways.
All his routines changed,
his work changed,
his life changed,
he changed.
---Jon Mayne (Grade 10)
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