Poems to inspire summer in my ear

source from NIH
Give your ears a summer break!

Poem in Your Pocket Day takes place every year on a day in National Poetry Month. Poem in Your Pocket Day 2024 will take place on April 18.

From ReadWorks.org

Poem or song? Versus or lyrics?


Hello Muddah, hello Faddah  by Allan Sherman, recited here 

Here I am at Camp Grenada

Camp is very entertaining

And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining


Teen novels in verse from Chicago Public Library's Poetry celebration


Lesson plan: https://thehaikufoundation.org/learn/the-haiku-foundation-education-wall/haiku-writing-plan-for-grades-5-6/

Haiku (wikipediasimplified)  - Your five senses can prompt you to describe a moment in time in exactly seventeen syllables. Can you modify the following example to use an adverb and to skip “but”?


Starting to Write by MK Gross 

Empty whiteness begs

Words to flow out of me, but

Paper remains blank.


Lesson plan: https://thehaikufoundation.org/learn/the-haiku-foundation-education-wall/haiku-writing-plan-for-grades-5-6/


More here, here, and here. The original Japanese format is here and here.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) In a Station of the Metro


Shakespeare's verse

Sonnet form

Limerick


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