Riddle-Poems, and How to Make Them. Riddle-poems are a lot of fun. They're an amusing game for children and adults, a connection to history, and a way to approach poetry that avoids the conceit and self-indulgence that lays waste to so much of it. Anyone can appreciate riddle-poems, and almost anyone can learn to make them. By doing so, you can enjoy yourself, sharpen your wits, learn a new way to look at the world, and perhaps tap resources of creativity you never suspected yourself to have. With the riddle-poem comes the riddle-game. To play the riddle-game, two or more people take turns making up riddles on the spot. You win points, or jellybeans, or whatever, by answering riddles correctly (we'll present some rules for a modern version of the riddle-game later).
If you're feeling uninspired, you can use a riddle you've heard somewhere else, but doing that a lot is considered poor form. At this point, a lot of you are probably thinking Improvise poetry? We know of many cultures that have riddle-poem traditions. Feet. Wikiquote. PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of poems and poets. Poetry Search Engine. Poetry 180 - List of All Poems. The Sonnets. You can buy the Arden text of these sonnets from the Amazon.com online bookstore: Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) I. FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,II. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,III.
Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewestIV. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendV. Those hours, that with gentle work did frameVI. Then let not winter's ragged hand defaceVII. Reflect, Convicts Write Letters to Their Younger Selves. Photographer Trent Bell has created a powerful portrait series entitled “Reflect”. He asked 12 convicts in the Maine prison system to handwrite sincere letters to their younger selves… “We let drinking and drugs shatter our dreams and our potential future.” “Just know that people will always try and test you, and no matter what you think, only a real man can walk away.” “If you think something might be a bad idea, believe it! Don’t do it.” “Never lose the person you really are because it may be too late by the time you find yourself again.” “You must be willing to forgive those that ask or deserve for forgiveness in order to be forgiven yourself.” “I have spent most of my life behind bars and you are worth much more than that.”
“Life is far from over, Jamie. “Be quick to smile, slow to anger, and treat all people with respect they deserve. “Every decision you make affects everyone around you, most importantly your own future.” Trent Bell. Works based on Alice in Wonderland. Jabberwocky. "Jabberwocky" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English.[2][3] Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle". Origin and publication[edit] Alice climbing into the looking glass world. Illustration by John Tenniel, 1871 A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become "Jabberwocky" while in Croft on Tees, close to Darlington, where he lived as a child, and printed it in 1855 in Mischmasch, a periodical he wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family.
The piece was titled "Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry" and read: Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy tovesDid gyre and gymble in ye wabe:All mimsy were ye borogoves;And ye mome raths outgrabe. The rest of the poem was written during Carroll's stay with relatives at Whitburn, near Sunderland. Lexicon[edit] "Jabberwocky" One, two! Poets Graves|Poets & Poetry Forum. Poems for Teens. You write about the life that's vividest. And if that is your own, that is your subject. And if the years before and after sixteen Are colorless as salt and taste like sand— Return to those remembered chilly mornings, The light spreading like a great skin on the water... From "Ground Swell" by Mark Jarman "One way to look at reading: as the lifelong construction of a map by which to trace and plumb what it has ever meant to be in the world, and by which to gain perspective on that other, ongoing map—the one that marks our own passage through the world as we both find and make it.
" From "Another and Another Before That: Some Thoughts on Reading," by Carl Phillips "I respond most to what is found out about the heart and spirit, what we can hear through the language. From "The Art of Finding" by Linda Gregg Eating Poetry by Mark Strand Ink runs from the corners of my mouth... homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton these hips are big hips... Thanks by W. The Young Man's Song by W. On Writing. Poetic Forms & Techniques. Poetry Resources for Teens. For Educators. The Academy of American Poets presents lesson plans that align with Common Core Standards, each of which have been prepared by a curriculum specialist concerned with developing skills of perception and imagination. We hope they will inspire the educators in our community to bring even more poems into your classrooms! "The Owl" by Arthur Sze The classroom component of this year’s National Poetry Month’s education project, Poet-to-Poet, for grades 3 to 6.
From "Manatee/Humanity" by Anne Waldman The classroom component of this year’s National Poetry Month’s education project, Poet-to-Poet, for grades 7 to 12. Developed and tested by high-school teachers, the following lesson plans provide everything you need to administer a successful poetry unit in your classroom. Voice Students participate in a series of learning activities employing interconnectivity between poems used and core texts to explore poetry as social commentary. Classic Poems. Poets Graves|Poets & Poetry Forum. FOUND POEM FAVORITE - The Learning Network Blog. POETRY PAIRINGS - The Learning Network Blog. This week’s Poetry Pairing features “A Poem of Changgan” by Li Po and the Sunday Review article “Romance at Arm’s Length” by Daniel Jones. After reading the poem and the article, tell us what you think — or suggest other Times content that could be matched with the poem instead. Read more… Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesThis painting of two women preparing a Passover meal (seder) is called “The Washington Haggadah” and was painted in 1478.
Related Article This week’s Poetry Pairing features “Paschal” by Robert Pinsky and the article “Put Yourself in the Story of Passover” by Edward Rothstein. After reading the poem and the article, tell us what you think — or suggest other Times content that could be matched with the poem instead. Joshua Bright for The New York TimesZoe Feldman, the founder of Lisa Frank Mixtape, at MUD coffee in the East Village, the last place that she saw her girlfriend, who died in 2012. Chang W. This week’s Poetry Pairing features “Sestina: Like” by A.E. Poetry Pairing | 'Fairy-tale Logic' What Poem Is in Your Pocket? Nicole Bengiveno/The New York TimesStudents from several schools took turns reciting poems in New York City’s Bryant Park for Poem in Your Pocket Day in 2008. You knew about Poem in Your Pocket Day, right? Thursday is the 10th annual celebration of the day, which is held at the end of National Poetry Month every year.
First created in 2002 by the Office of the Mayor of New York City (and enthusiastically promoted each year since by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who writes his own poems for the occasion), the Academy of American Poets took the event national in 2008. So, what poem are you carrying? Tell us below, then send a Twitter message with the hashtag #pocketpoem. We’ll be keeping track and re-posting on Twitter, along with our friends at the National Writing Project, Figment and the Office of Letters and Light. And if you’re somehow not prepared, we’ve got a list of simple things you can do to mark the day before it’s over.
Some Easy Ways to Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day.