Does anyone know of a website that I can create different styles of poems on?

Question

I need something that I can partially create because they have to be original poems for a class, and I cannot write poetry. Please help me if you can.

Answer 1

here is an artile I wrote for my writers group on Yahoo...

hope it helps

Acrostic

Acrostic poems are poems, which have one word where each letter of the word begins a line for the poem. These poems make great gifts when printed on fancy paper and set in a frame.

Here are some examples of acrostic poems I wrote

Michael

Made in Australia
Inventive mind
Creative thinking
Heart as big as the land
A man in the making
Ever seeking
Loving son


Flower

Frequently seen
Lovingly adored
Once seen never forgotten
Waking with the sun
Eager for the day
Resplendent glory

Free Verse

Free verse is a prose form of poetry. Free verse is just that.. free… unstructured.. no rules….

Here is an example of a free verse poem I wrote

New Day

I woke to the sound of Suzi Quatro blaring in the bathroom
I felt compassion for my mother who woke the same way a generation
ago..
Devil Gate Drive at 6 am is hard to take….
Karma.. what you send out comes back to you…
Oh well it could be worse…. It could be Kizz at 6 am
My feet hit the floor and my mind seeks coffee…
Caffeine.. my friend….
Suzi blares louder as the bathroom door is flung open
BANG BANG…. Mum get up it is after six…
Yeh yeh I know….
Why does modern life torture us with early rising..
I pull on some clothes…
Good morning sweetie…. Have you got some lunch ready for school
Blechhhh no one eats packed lunches at high school……
Argue the point…. why? you cant make them eat…..
Ahhhhh coffee….
Good Morning World
© CRD 2002


Haiku

Haiku is a traditional Japanese form of poetry. A haiku is a poem
consisting of three lines. Each line has a specific number of
syllables, ( word parts ie. Con/ sis/ting is three syllables). The
first and third lines have 5 syllables and the second line has seven syllables.

Haiku are traditionally about things in nature such as rocks, clouds, animals, water, wind, sun, mountains etc. Haiku traditionally signifies a specific season and a specific point in time. Here are some of my own Haiku for you to see:

Caterpillar

Caterpillar eats
All the munchy-crunchy leaves
Butterfly appears


Thunderstorm

Rumble grumble rahhhhh
Lightning flashing all around
Crack angry sky heavy rain


Daffodil

Fairies teacup sweet
Dandelion tea to drink
Bobbing in the field



Limerick

Limerick is a form of poetry most renown and named after the city said to be it's place of origin, Limerick, Ireland.

Limericks are poems of five lines. The lines have a specific rhyming pattern the pattern is lines one, two and five rhyme with one another and lines three and four rhyme with one another.

Limericks are traditionally very humorous and often about a specific person. However they seldom seem humorous to the person they are about.

Here are some examples of limericks I have written. I must add this is the one form of poetry I have always found a great struggle.

A man on the net

There was a man on the internet
He talked to women he never met
The women cried
The man soon died
What a sad end forever yet


Boy from Australia

There was a boy from Australia
He had a face like a Dahlia
His wife nearly cried
When he turned to the side
Cause his ears were like a trailer

copyright Cheryl O'Brien 8/11/2002

And another article I wrote...

ODE: The Ode is a rhyming poem, usually humorous and often satyrical or sarcastic in nature, which is usually composed in 'honour' of a particular person, occasion or thing. Modern odes are generally rhythmical and almost ditty-like.

Example of an Ode:

An Ode to The Garbo

The Garbo Man drives a mighty truck
He has mighty skill and mighty pluck
Every Thursday morn at half past eight
I hear his truck roar at our front gate
Two arms swing out and lift up the bin
shaking all the rubbish and tipping it in
Plastic bags and old tin cans too
Then off next door to house number twenty two
The Garbo man works very very hard
never rising from his seat
while he goes from yard to yard

Here is a website to find out more about the Ode.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/ode.html?
tqskip1=1&tqtime=0605


BLANK VERSE: Blank verse is a non-rhyming poem. It is a formal poem in the sense that the structure must have a particular repeating beat (metrical feet) pattern. The metrical pattern can be in any order ie. stressed-unstressed-unstressed; unstressed-unstressed- stressed etc.

Essentially a Blank Verse poem is a sonnet of sorts which does not rhyme. The metre needs to remain the same throughout the poem and the poem can be any length and the lines can be any length though all the lines in a single poem need to have the same number of feet.

An Example of Blank Verse

Nature's Whisper

In sky scraper jungles of steel and glass
Upon busied streets of suited beggars
Neons mindlessly blinking in sunshine
Starched white faces with painted smiles
Treadmill people with treadmill lives milling
Mining and milling the mighty dollar
Nature's whisper is lost to their ears
Lost in the jungles of steel and glass
Nature's whisper silenced forever
Natures voice whispering let me breathe.


Here are some sites to visit to find out more about Blank Verse
http://members.aol.com/lucyhardng/pointers/form7.htm#top
http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/

SONNETS are a traditinal forma of poetry which has to pedigrees, one is the Italian Sonnet and the other is the English Sonnet.

Sonnets are generally 14 lines long and follow an Iambic Pentameter in the rhythm of each line and have one of several rhyming schemes.

Here is an example of a sonnet I wrote.
My Australia
A Sonnet

In youthful days I travelled round this land
climbing rocks and trees, mountains and hills too
swimming creeks, billabongs and rivers true
stretched on a beach feeling sun-warmed sand
dusty miles on distant roads low and high
seeing hailed crops and waving fields of green
forests tall, shrublands and deserts in sheen
in walking cross the land I felt her sigh

In her sigh I felt a shudder and pain
my heart ached for the losses seen and felt
tears welled in clouds stinging raindrops falling
gullies wide unleashed torrential drain
dusty trees arching skyward, verdant sveldte
A land, a love, a life, a death calling

For a great read on SONNETS read message number 721 on the messagboard
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AustraliaTheWorldWordsmiths/message/721
Richard went to a lot of trouble to define Sonnets.

Try one of these forms and feel free to post the results on the
messageboard.

Happy Writing

Cheryl

copyright Cheryl O'Brien 30/08/03

Answer 2

Throw those magnets on the fridge it'll be just as lousy and pointless as an internet poetry site. Most kids try to cheat with song lyrics. If you copy a pre existing poem your teacher is going to notice. Also it's illegal. Take a lot more english classes and pay attention if you think that stuff above is good.

Answer 3

You are asking for help plagiarizing someone else's poetry??? Why? You do not need to do that! You are quite capable of writing poetry. Just give it a try.

One way to start is to take a sheet of paper, and write the letter of your name in a single column on the left side. Then think of a pleasant experience you have had (vacation at the beach, etc.) and attach words to the letters. It doesn't have to rhyme to be poetry. Give yourself a chance and try it. You can do it.

Answer 4

Here is a website that may help you, you'll have to search through them all to find what you are looking for: