Let's meet and learn about TYPES OF POEMS

This amazing day will be full of great learnings. I am going to bring you into a deeper understanding of different types of poems. Yes! when you are done reading this post, there will be a lesson that will be stuck on your mind that they truly exist and upon knowing these, you will love more to create your own poems and explore with your imaginative minds. Each of us has our own focus in life and some people have less attention to poetry but I am here to help you and guide you that learning in poetry is such a fun activity and it will widen your ideas when it comes to writing.

Actually, our life is surrounded by POETRY and PROSE from setting, characters, conflicts, theme, and moods. These are happening every single day but the difference is, they are compiled into writings. I could recall 5 years ago how making poems helped me through my depression. I was able to create essays and poems almost every day because I was into mixed emotions and since I cannot share all that I've been through, I decided to express them all through writing. It has been an effective strategy for me to decrease burdens and worries in my life. Can you imagine how it brings to my life that no other people can do? It is WRITING.

Poema by : @Donnabel8.-

This amazing day will be full of great learnings. I am going to bring you into a deeper understanding of different types of poems. Yes! when you are done reading this post, there will be a lesson that will be stuck on your mind that they truly exist and upon knowing these, you will love more to create your own poems and explore with your imaginative minds. Each of us has our own focus in life and some people have less attention to poetry but I am here to help you and guide you that learning in poetry is such a fun activity and it will widen your ideas when it comes to writing.

Actually, our life is surrounded by POETRY and PROSE from setting, characters, conflicts, theme, and moods. These are happening every single day but the difference is, they are compiled into writings. I could recall 5 years ago how making poems helped me through my depression. I was able to create essays and poems almost every day because I was into mixed emotions and since I cannot share all that I've been through, I decided to express them all through writing. It has been an effective strategy for me to decrease burdens and worries in my life. Can you imagine how it brings to my life that no other people can do? It is WRITING.

My objectives for today on making this are the following;

*To identify different types of poems.

*To know the set of rules and guidelines about the specific poem.

*To value the importance of making poems.

*To practice their poetry skills through writing.

*To understand how to make an original poem.

Now, some of you knew already about these types of poems, but you are lucky enough to read my post today for those new to this. There is a setlist of poems but I just want to highlight the five poems which I love to make or shall we say, my favorites.

FREE VERSE

Free verse is the simplest of all. Do you want to know why? it is simply because, there are no rules to be followed, no rhyming word to be matched, and no set of lines to have. You can freely make your own topic of your poem and pour out whatever feelings you are having.

I made a free verse poem about a lemon. It is one of my favorites. I decided to change my lifestyle and it's my 4th day having a healthy life and lemon helps me to lose weight and cleanse my organs especially on my kidneys. I would like you to know that I had tiny kidney stones before but once I drink a bottle of lemonade, it eases me and I feel healthy at all. In the poem, I was able to describe how does it taste and its texture too. I hope this simple poem of mine can give a tip for those who want to do cleansing and, of course, lose weight.

HAIKU POEM

If you are an animal and nature lover, well you are fit in this poem. Haiku is a very short type of poem. It is originated from the country Japan. You are about to choose your own topic to be delivered along with your poem. I chose the ant. Though some people found them too annoying especially the red ants because they are aggressive and they tend to sting our skin. But looking on the other side, if you have read some fables story about the ant, we can see how they are risking their lives in order to store foods when the winter or rainy season comes they are prepared. It shows how clever they are.

Now, let's move on about the rules on making a haiku poem. Kindly read carefully the following;

It should be a 3 line poem.

Example:

Ants are hard-working.

They build chambers to store food.

And keep the Queen fed.

The poem should have a 5-7-5 syllables pattern

What is syllable?

-A syllable is a part of a word that contains sounds (phonemes) of a word. It usually has a vowel in it. A syllable is also called a ‘beat’ and teachers often teach children to identify syllables by clapping the ‘beats’ in words. Another way to describe a syllable is a ‘mouthful’ of a word.

(5 syllables) Ants are hard-working.

(7 syllables) They build chambers to store food.

(5 syllables) And keep the Queen fed.

ACROSTIC POEM

One of the best thing to do with Acrostic poem it's about the beginning letters. As you can see in the example, I picked the word LEARN and make a poem out of its letters. You can have your own topic or ideas just to make sure that it talks about the word you chose. You can see how I was able to create lines in my poem and connect each word to how it begins with the letter. This creates as your guide to make longer lines or ideas. What I mean, it's easy to make a poem with the sets of chosen letters.

I love the word LEARN because it is a never-ending process. By the moment we opened our eyes, we learn something new and before closing our eyes, we learned something from the whole day. Whether it is small or big but every chance in life we are learning from it in different ways and aspects.

The message of this poem is that Education is the key. In our country, we encouraged the children to give importance to letting themselves be educated so that they will reach their dreams in life. Regardless of the status of life, people are sending their children to school because that is the only treasure they can provide to them, and being educated will help them to raise their voice and rights from an innocent mind.

CINQUAIN POEM

This poem is short but it takes time for you to think about what to put in order for you to create a good poem according to its patterns. There are many types of Cinquain poems. You have to carefully follow its correct form such as;

On the first line of the poem, It will be your title and the title should have 2 syllables and a NOUN.

Example:

Word: Sister

Meaning: a woman or girl in relation to other daughters and sons of her parents. source

Syllables: sis-ter

The second line will be adjectives to describe the noun (sister) with 4 syllables.

Example:

Syllables: friend-ly lov-ing

The third line will verb and better to have with -ing at the end to show action with a total of six syllables.

Example:

Verb: helping, teaching, guiding

Next, the fourth line can be with emotions or another describing word about the title or the noun(sister) with 8 syllables in all.

Example:

Syllables: u-nique, sport-y,thought-ful, sin-cere

And on the last line, it should be the same word or meaning (synonym) of the title so I chose (sibling).

This poem is dedicated to our sisters who never failed to support us in all aspects. They are there to protect us in danger and willing to take risks in order to save us. This shows how a sister supports her other sister by appreciating who she is and what she does.

LIMERICK POEM

The last poem that I am going to talk about is the LIMERICK POEM. Are you familiar with this?

I do also love making this type of poem because its pattern and form are easy to follow. Limerick's poem is composed of five lines. We are going to focus more on every end of the word of each line on how they rhyme together. This poem has a rhyme scheme with AABBA. You may wonder what is it. It means your first, second and last line must have the same rhyming words. You can see in the poem how I highlighted the rhyming words of light, tight, and fight. So they are all in AAA rhyme scheme. For the third and fourth lines, they have the rhyming words of fears and hears with a rhyme scheme of BB.

The poem is all about how a person trying to save someone's life from a car accident. She can see that the woman was nervous about what happened. She was screaming asking for help but nobody hears them it's because it happened in the middle of dark and crowd less desert.

How was it, ladies and gentlemen? Do you love the new post today? I cannot wait to see and read your own poems. Make it a habit on expressing your deep feelings through creative writing. It is worth it. Thank you everyone and see you next time for more educational ideas.

Sources:

Counting syllables: https://www.howmanysyllables.com/words/sincere

Definition of words:https://www.google.com/search?q=sister&oq=sister&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i433j0l4j46i433j46j0i433j46.1004j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Haiku poem: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-haiku-in-4-easy-steps#:~:text=Haiku%20is%20a%20form%20of,-7-5%20syllable%20pattern.

Ant clipart: http://clipart-library.com/clip-art/ant-transparent-24.htm