WHAT'S A POEM?

A poem has rhymes

A poem has rhythm

Like “I went to a bbq,

Ate ribs and corn

Hot dogs and chicken wings”

Poems can make you feel the rhythm of the words

Poems help you say all the things you want to say

A poem is when you write down

Something that happened to you

And you add rhymes

to your story

And you make things up too

A poem has rhymes

A poem has rhythm

A poem is a story that has words that rhymes

And words that don’t rhyme

Like “eggs and juice”

A poem is something you read aloud

Some poems are funny

Some poems are not

Poems are something you can write to yourself

Or you can write to others

To express your feelings

It’s a bunch of words that rhyme

It’s a bunch of words you put into a sentence

A poem is about something, something real or fake

Something that happened and something that never did

But you decide if

A poem has rhymes

A poem has rhythm

I think it’s rhyming words put together

I think poems are rhymes that you make up

I think poems don’t have to rhyme

Poems are just something that you say

Poems are anything that is a text

Poems come from your mouth

And your brain

And you feel the rhythm of the words

They make you think of places

As if you were there

Poems can make you travel faster than a train

A poem is when the author’s imagination pops out

And the words flow like a river

Into the world

Into your heart