Today is a very poetic day.

I wrote this poem about a forest, in "free verse":

A forest
unseen by winter
inhabited by birds and insects
a celebration of singing, twittering life

This forest,
this ever-living forest
the only truly wild place

left on earth.

This forest of hope
is safely hidden
from prying, destructive curiosity
so close to being eliminated

dear mother earth

This dear forest

of mine

forever being re-born,

growing and blossoming

My forest

alive with music

a mother bird sings

athering food

for her young

the wolf howls

to his lover,

the moon

the bumble bee
buzzing

as he flies

from rose to daisy.

My forest is living.

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WHAT IS POETRY?

Poetry is a collection of creative thoughts making use of verses, rhyme and metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia etc

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The wind is blowing today and through the night, it was wild and wet. Even on Friday we were already flying kites.

The little wooded area near our home is bending back and forth as the wind plays with the tree tops.

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I am also looking at other different types of poetry:

Acrostic poems

These have the word spelt out down the side and you make a line starting with each letter of the word.

Here is an acrostic poem I wrote about the wind:

WIND

Wild
Icy
Naughty
Destructive

Another type of poem that is good to write is a CINQUAIN

They have 5 lines
each line has the same number of words in it as its number sequence

title
describes the title
action of the title
how does it make you feel
synonom for title

the last line has a single word that means the same as the title (synonym)

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Here are 2 poems that I did as CINQUAIN's

Ocean

Vast, Unpredictable

Living, Moving, Never still

Enchanted, Excited, Amazed, Afraid,

Sea

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Horses

Intelligent companions

Swiftly galloping, jumping

Awestruck, thrilling, friendship, free

Wild

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Here are some links to some poetry websites.

http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/
http://www.poetryteachers.com/
http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html