Example Poem 1 Example Poem 3

The Sentry A Tree Within by Octavio Paz

The street was as quiet
A tree grew inside my head.
as winter's pre-dawn,
when out walked a man A tree grew in.
with a sentry's hat on.
Its roots are veins,
He stood at attention.
He stared straight ahead. Its branches nerves
And all I could see -- Thoughts, its tangled foliage
that black bush on his head,
Your glance sets it on fire,
by Denise Rodgers
And its fruits of shade

Are blood oranges

Example Poem 2 And pomegranates of flame

Mining for a Poem Day breaks

Mining for a poem In the body’s night
pining to go home
to where the rhyme and meter make There, within, inside my head,
some sense.
Digging for a clue The tree speaks.
for what my words should do
Come closer-can you hear it?
all safely bound within a picket fence.

Searching for a rhyme

is not a waste of time,
and rhythm must be meter's closest
friend.
Together they go dancing,
lithely prancing and romancing
till the poem comes to a satisfying end.

by Denise Rodgers
Example Poem 4

The Football Game

Blitz and blocking, bump –and-run

Drive and drop kick, the other team’s done
End zone, end line, ebb and flow
Snap, sack, scrambling, I love it so
Football is fun and fabulous too
Let’s go to the stadium, just me and you

Example Poem 5
Example Poem 7
Appetite
Mom & Dad Are Home
In a house the size of a postage stamp
lived a man as big as a barge. Slam! Slam!
His mouth could drink the entire river Go the car doors.
You could say it was rather large Jangle! Jangle!
For dinner he would eat a trillion beans Go the house keys.
And a silo full of grain, Jiggle! Jiggle!
Washed it down with a tanker of milk Go the keys in the door.
As if he were a drain. Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Example Poem 6 Mom and Dad are home!!

Cat Got Your Tongue

I was feeling shy when my uncle came.

"Has the cat got your tongue?" he said.
He must have meant, "Why aren't you talking?"
Because my tongue was still in my head.

—Adele Tolley Wilson