An acrostic is a poem which spells out a word or phrase, usually using the initials of each line down the left hand side of the poem. If you would like more details, explanations or ideas of how to get started writing acrostic poems yourself, use the TEACHERS’ PAGE, DIFFERENT POETRY FORMS, ACROSTICS to find out more. In the meantime, examples of my acrostic poems are listed below .
This is just a fun rhyming acrostic poem with something of an extra twist in the punchline.
So many pressures and fears today.
Too many worries that wont go away.
Really can’t face all the things I must do.
Even more work’s piling up to get through. [click to continue…]
I have put together a page of winning children’s poems by Fitzwilliam Primary School on the topic of Victorian child miners. They include lots of figurative language such as alliteration, personification, similes and metaphors, and different poem forms such as acrostics, list poems and senses poems. [click to continue…]
Having done a World War Two workshop with year five children at Queen Primary, they produced some fantastic poems of different forms, including acrostic & shape poems, using lots of figurative language, such as alliteration and metaphors. Click here to go to the page of World War Two poems that the children wrote.
This shape poem is just a bit of fun, inspired by a true story of when I achieved a very odd ambition…. [click to continue…]
I have had requests for journey poems and for a river acrostic poem, and have taken this River’s Journey poem one step further to include aspects of a shape poem. It is great for teaching figurative language as it includes lots of personification, metaphors and alliteration, and some onomatopoeia.
