DIFFERENT POEM FORMS

I have provided teaching on each of the different poem forms listed, which you can access via the teachers page above. Therefore, if you need to learn about the definitions and qualities of each of the different poem forms, or would like ideas of how to start writing them, use the TEACHERS’ PAGE, DIFFERENT POETRY FORMS . Alternatively, if you would like to find specific examples of any particular poem form, you will find listed below examples of ACROSTICS, ALPHABET POEMS, ALTERNATIVE NURSERY RHYMES, FREE VERSE, HAIKUS, KENNINGS, LIST POEMS, SHAPE POEMS/CALLIGRAMS, and TRADITIONAL NURSERY RHYMES. On the other hand, if you are looking for examples of one particular poem form, you will find them listed in their own sub-category too make it even easier to find what you are looking for. Just use the drop down menu in the category POEMS FORMS and click on the poem type that you need examples of.

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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Humpty Dumpty

18 June 2012

  Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

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Hickory Dickory Dock

18 June 2012

    Hickory Dickory Dock. The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one, The mouse ran down Hickory Dickory Dock

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Georgie Porgie

18 June 2012

    Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away.  

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Doctor Foster

18 June 2012

  Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle, Right up to his middle, And never went there again.  

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Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea

18 June 2012

  Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea, Silver buckles at his knee; He’ll come back and marry me, Bonny Bobby Shafto!

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Tesco: £VERY LITTLE HELP$ Poem 2

31 May 2012

  This poem is the second campaign poem that I wrote to Tesco in protest of their lack of support for Fairtrade bananas.  Click here to understand what brought the campaign into being, and to see the first campaign poem that I (and everyone who agrees with the sentiment) sent to Tesco. (More importantly, help […]

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The Unending Christmas Story

29 May 2012

    This Christmas shape poem (In the shape of a Christmas tree) was purpose written to be used as a performance poem at the end of my rhyming Christmas nativity play “The Simplest Nativity Play Ever” and puts forward the point that God involved ordinary people in the real story of Christ’s birth.

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I Can’t

28 May 2012

    This encouragement poem  is purpose written with rhyme and rhythm to be read to children as a performance poem.    

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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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