Poetry

"I am From" poem template by George Ella Lyon

"Example
I am from clothespins,
From Clorox and carbon tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the black porch
(Black, glistening it tastes lke beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush, the Dutch elm whose long gone limbs I
remember as if they were my own.

I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,

From Imogene and Alafair.
I'm from the know-it-alls and and the pass-it-ons,
From perk up and pipe down.
I'm from He restoreth my soul with a cottonball lamb
And ten verses I can say myself

I'm from Aretmus and Billie's Branch,

Fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost to the auger
To the eye my father shut to keep his sight.

Under my bed was a dress box spilling old pictures,

A sift of lost faces to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments - snapped before I budded - leaf-fall from the
family tree.

- George Ella Lyon

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Concrete Poetry
Definition :
Concrete poetry, poetry in which the poet's intent is conveyed by graphic
patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the meaning of
words in conventional arrangement.
For Example: Stairs
I
climb.
Every day.
A different priority.
Slowly making progress
toward success, success, success.
No time to stop, to rest, to appreciate
the small things around me-the air, the flowers,
even the people I meet are standing in the way of the climb.

Limerick Poetry
Definition :
A limerick is a five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA
rhyme scheme, and whose subject is a short, pithy tale or description.
Most limericks are comedic, some are downright crude, and nearly all are
trivial in nature.

For Example:
There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a
bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for
the bucket, Nantucket.