In 2008 I was asked to be the visiting poet for National Poetry Week. My one-off visit was so popular, the school asked me to stay on for a few more weeks – the students enjoyed discovering poetry.
I wrote this poem in class to demonstrate and encourage them to have a go too and was surprised how many actually got up to read the resulting words.
School Daze
butterfly jumper
Thai yellow shoes
rhythm and rhyme
gave us the clues
words with a reason
passionate hues
snapshots of feeling
images in blue
it takes real talent
possessed by few
to write something cool
in a couplet or two
or a french cinquain
japanese tanka or haiku
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2008
We also opened a Poemhunters webpage so students could contribute poetry with their teacher supervising.
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