POEM EXAMPLES OF CREATIVE WRITING

Listed below are poems which are my examples of creative writing. There is nothing complex about creative writing but in order to be imaginative we often need some kind of stimulation or idea to get us started. As with anything else, the more we do this, and the more we share ideas, the more natural and fast flowing these ideas will come to be. (Have you ever looked at cars from the front and noticed that some headlights look like angry eyes, and others like little puppy-dog eyes….or is that just me?! Since I noticed, I can’t help but see it all the more!)
Anyway, often my poems begin with a silly moment, or conversation which is extended by my childish thoughts, and I always find that the moments come from observing people and things around me. I love to write about aliens, for example, as the poem can go in any direction and be as silly and imaginative as the rhyming leads it to be. Sometimes I will begin with an idea for a punchline and work my way towards it (generally the FUNNY POEMS will begin this way) and other times I will be surprised at the progression of the story as it develops by following the lead of the rhyming (generally these become my SILLY POEMS). If you would like ideas for teaching creative writing to children and to stimulate ideas for them look at the TEACHERS PAGE, CREATIVE WRITING on the menu bar above. If you would like to just enjoy my own examples of creative writing poems they are listed below in alphabetical order, although they will also be duplicated into other specific poem categories mentioned above so that they can be found by other means.

Little Boy Blue and Friends

18 June 2012

  This creative alternative nursery rhyme definitely rates among my ‘unpleasant, childish’ silly poems and uses a list format to go through the colours. It has elements of alliteration throughout and uses hyperbole as humour.   Little Boy Green, go blow your nose; It’s constantly dripping all over your toes. But where is the boy […]

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A Day in the Life of Humpty Dumpty

18 June 2012

  These are a couple of creatively silly Humpty Dumpty alternative poems that are firm favourites with the children in my Fun With Poetry assemblies.  There is a token gesture of hyperbole used as humour, but otherwise they are  just funny poems!   Humpty Dumpty sat on my knee Humpty Dumpty had a great wee

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Millicent the Millipede

29 May 2012

    This tiny insect poem is a lovely, simple example of metaphor poetry.  It’s four lines include small amounts of alliteration, imagery,  hyperbole and personification to describe  the  picture of the millipede’s body and feet moving? 

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Harvest – A Performance Poem for a Thanksgiving Celebration

8 May 2012

This is a performance poem for older primary children.  The individual letters of the word HARVEST are held up by seven children.  At the beginning of each verse the children rearrange themselves so that they are in a suitable order for the bold words that follow. The appropriate letters are held aloft for each word, but […]

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A Nursery Rhyme Harvest

8 May 2012

  I know that many schools have the children perform harvest / thanksgiving poems and songs at their harvest celebration, so this one is a little bit of both. The nursery rhymes provide the narration for the main poem, and I have simply amended them to be appropriate to harvest-time.

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The Royal Reply

2 April 2012

      This funny letter poem has rhyme, rhythm, and lots of word play in the appropriate language to make it suitable as a performance poem, imagined to be written as a reply from the queen to my Royal Pardon poem.  It is also an excellent example of alliteration and consonance poetry.

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Church, but not as we know it!

28 February 2012

      This is just a silly poem straight from my imagination, and is fortunately based only on jokes about church, and not on my own experience!  

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Cattitude

28 February 2012

      This cat poem is just a bit of rhyming fun with an obvious bit of word play in the title, but anyone who has ‘owned’ a cat will relate to the “Cattitude” that I am referring to!

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Beware the Knicker Nickers

27 February 2012

      This alien story poem is nothing more than a bit of silly fun, inspired by the word play in the title.  It includes some metaphors, alliteration and word play.  It did, however, become something of a challenge keeping up the rhyme pattern of aaaa. (See BEGINNERS’ PAGES for explanation of rhyme patterns.)

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An Alphabetical Alien Invasion

27 February 2012

    This is a fun, imaginative and descriptive children’s alphabet poem.  Children love describing aliens, as they can never be wrong, so the challenge here is to describe them so succinctly and precisely that the alien can be recognised from a picture. It’s a great, fun way to combine literacy and art.

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