Friday, 1 March 2013

Counting down to World Poetry Day


Every year on 21st March it is World Poetry Day. Over the next couple of weeks I will be posting some of my favourite poems, to get us into the spirit of the event. Let me know what yours are and I will post some of them as well.


What is poetry?

Many people have tried to describe what poetry is. It is more than just words that rhyme or lines in verses. Often good poetry says something meaningful in just a few words. It is concentrated language. If normal sentences are orange squash, poetry is like the syrup before it is diluted.

If you read a few lines of poetry, it often sticks in your mind. Poets usually have strong feelings about the subject of their poem. They often want the people who read their poems to feel the emotion too.

Poetry often has a strong rhythm or beat, like the lyrics to a song. Many poems use words to paint a picture in your head.


How would you describe poetry? 
How does reading your favourite poem make your feel?

28 comments:

  1. Poetry is something that sometimes rhymes but it acctually means something and my favourite poem is learning to fly by Kenn Nesbitt because if you are flying you feel free when you are reading it.

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    1. i feel like a bird soaring in the high sky i wonder where i could go to travelling and exploring the world. How would you feel if you read these poems.

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  2. Poetry is something that rhymes in a comfortable way that you can relax and let's the ryhams flow over your mind.It's takes your body into poetry let it rhyam over your mind

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  3. Poetry makes me feel calm and imaginative because it rymes. But my faourite poet is This Ivisible story I write by Ala scolnic it makes me feel imaginative and calm.

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  4. poetry is something that rhymes and my favourite poem that inspires me is benjiman zafnia because he makes me giggle

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  5. poetry is when the verses ryhem with the word that you write,sometime it gives you something to think about and it sometimes make you want to do what it says in the ryhem.

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  6. hi 5 blue poetry is something what RHYRMES and while you are writing poetry you can make up your own words and make the reader intersted that what i looovvve about poetry bbbbyyyyeee

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  7. i think poetry is a wonderful thing because you can use it in a love poetry or a funny poetry and also more.i like the poem by kenn nesbitt i think i am related to a bigfoot.it is very halirious when i read and that is why i like it.

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  8. Poetry is something that can sometimes ryhme.Also I liked Benjamim Zephaniah because one of his poem was very funny and I really enjoyed it.

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  9. Fatima and Chandon8 March 2013 at 12:27

    My favorite poetry from benjamin Zephania we are connected because no mater what colour we are we are all the same

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  10. alex and tobiloba8 March 2013 at 12:29

    My faveret poitry is benjimen zaphinia my,my faveret poem of him is talkin terkies.from alex
    My faviote poem is from Mr g my faviote book of hes is foa ball
    From TObi.

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  11. My favourite poetry is benjamin zephaniah because his poems are inspireing .And when he rote black and white it made me feel i can be who i wamt to be.

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  12. My faivroute poet is Bengaman zephania because no matter if were black or white we are connected.

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  13. Poetry means the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. To me poetry is a very emotinal thing to do, because you put your fellings into it and it is extremly soothing.My favorite poem is from benjiman zephinia which is called Talking Turkeys i like it because it reminds us that ani mals still have lives like us.

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  14. My favarite poetry book is from Benjamin zephanah the book called talking tarky because whem i saw it i felt excitde about it.

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  15. Poetry is an fantastic thing because its funny.The thing i like about poetry is when they are rhyming cause when your reading it you would sometimes want to read it again or everyday.Thats why poetry is good.

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  16. Poetry is something that rhymes and It makes me feel Imgainative. My favorite poem is Hot like Fire by Valarie bloom because it intresting and it is Imaginative

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  17. poerty is something that ryhems and the verses make senes.sometime it helps us learn something new like whats the name of the greates author in britain .

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  18. I think poetry is a way of expressing your feelings about your life.My favourite poem is hot like fire when its talking about bell ringing because it is funny and made me laugh.

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  19. Poetry can take various forms but always expresses a message in a unique way, often with rhythm or rhyme. However, some of the most intensely expressive poetry is highly descriptive and uses language that creates images and feelings beyond that of other literary work. Descriptive poetry, unlike narrative poetry, is known not necessarily for telling a story but for its deep depiction of a person, animal or inanimate object

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  20. Hello bloggers it's Tosan .. Im going to answer Miss Williams question poetry is when something rymes

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  21. Poetry is a relaxsion of your body and takes control of your body.Also you makes youe mind take over your self.

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  22. Poetry is somthing that rhimes and it telles you allot about everything .my favourout poetry is benjamin zehphina because he a good poetry.

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  23. Poetry sometimes rhymes and my favourite poem is Born to rap by Benjamin Zephania because it inspided me that I can write poems when I am older enough

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  24. Poetry is something that poeple use to say what they want to say but they do not sing it or rap it.

    my poem i like is talking turkeys because it has lots of poems and they aer very funny.

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  25. What is poetry?

    What I believe poetry is: Poetry is like an expression poetry is like a feeling that you express out to the world out to people. Poetry means alot to people many people. Poetry is more than just words that rhyme or lines in verses. Poets usually have strong feelings about the subject of their poem. They often want the people who read their poems to feel the emotion too.

    My favourite poem is: CINDERELLA BY ROAHL DAHL

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  26. Poetry is something that rhymes with a word like cow and bow which has OW at the end of each word. My favorite poem is Orange Silver Sausage by Zephania. It makes me feel exciting beacause it has exciting poetry.

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  27. Hi Ms Williams,
    Poetry is about rhyming and making up your own words, I think thats all I know about poetry.

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