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JOSIE'S POEMS
Poetic Devices You Must Use
By Josie Whitehead
OUR POETICAL LANGUAGE
See my POETIC ARTICLES
which will help with the understanding of metre etc.
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Thanks to Peter Hudspith for this wonderful illustration.
Limericks are such fun to both read and write.
Do you recognize the gentleman above who is scratching his nose and his toe also? You'll love this fun limerick:
DISPATCHING YOUR TICKLE
ACROSTIC POEMS
An Acrostic Christmas to You
Brownies
Hope
Happy New Year
It's Christmas
M is for Moth
Ode to the Apostrophe
So, What is Christmas all About?
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ADVERB POEMS
Brightly
Eagerly
Loudly
Silently
Softly
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ALLITERATIVE POEMS
An Aggressive Alligator
Penelope Pickle's Party
Penelope Pigglewiggle's Pear
Percy Peckle Pickled a Pear
Peter the Pesky Pigeon
ANAPAESTIC/DACTYLIC POEMS
Anapaests
Embracing the World
It's Harvest Thanksgiving
My Favourite Wot-Nots
Seaside Sensations
Sunrise, Sunset
Water
BALLADS
Bride Named Spring
Ode to the Bluebells
CINQUAIN
Cool Breeze
Red Rose
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HAIKU
Haiku of the Seasons
Spring Haiku
LIMERICKS
Are You a Master of Pasta?
Are You Good at Rhyming?
Bananas and Poems
Bundle of Limericks (A)
Cat is a Cat for All That (A)
Certain Shopkeeper from Norwich (A)
Dispatching Your Tickle
Earth's a Wonderful Place
Halloween Secrets
I Can't Tell a Toad from a Shark
It's Raining Cats and Dogs
Let's Do Some Limericks
More Limericks
Mucky Duck Limericks
Oh Fiddledy-Diddledy-Dee
Old Vigilante (An)
On Learning the Tricks of the Trade
Pigs
Poets From Yorkshire Are Best
Reveal Yourself
What is a Poet?
Woman Who Comes from Sri Lanka (A)
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METAPHOR POEMS
and lots and lots more.
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ONOMATOPOEIA
Escaping All This Din
It's Onomatopoeia My Dear
Silence
Snake (The)
Snakes
Sounds of Life (The)
Splish Splash Splosh
Voices of Nature (The)
PERSONIFICATION
See this page: HERE
PETRARCHAN SONNETS
Angel Lady
Mother Mine
Sonnet for Sons and Daughters
RIDDLES
Riddle-Me-Ree
Riddles
What Am I?
What Are They?
What Can You Be?
RHYMING GAME
Rhyming Game for Younger
Children
SHAPED POEMS
Christmas Decoration (A)
Christmas Tree Fairy (The)
No Time
Temptingly Tantalizing His Taste
Buds
SIMILE POEMS
Anger - Simile Poem
As Easy as Pie Similes
As Useful as a Simile is
As White As This Wintry Scene
Autumn Similes
Change - A Simile Poem
Fierce - A Simile Poem
How Very Sensational
Howling and Growling at My Door
Rain - A Simile Poem
Selection of Similes (A)
Similes
Six Silly Similes
Wind - A Simile Poem
Winter - A Simile Poem
SHADOW POEMS/PARODY
(See also: OTHER WRITERS)
Sing a poem or simply 'shadow' a rhythm of a song/poem/style, into your own poem (your own words). Such fun.
See My Article on this subject HERE
By the Waterfalls of Ilkley
By the Waterfalls of Ilkley - part 2
Christmas Calypso
Brave, Brave Sledderclob
Brindled Beauty
Date With Death (A)
Do Come for Tea, Dear
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Golf Crazy
I've Too Many Miles on My Clock
If . . . .
Insomniac Poet (The)
Is Anyone There?
It's Poor Old Mr Nobody Again
Miss Rosie Rose
My Favourite Wot-Nots
Old King Kan
Perfect Beau (The)
Pirate Poet (The)
Plastic Surgery - Hippo-Style
Poem of the Seasons
Rush Hour
Shall I Compare Thee to a Winter's Night?
Shopping Fever
Shorthand Fever
Strawberries and Tigers
What Life is This?
Will You Dance a Little Faster
Winter Calypso
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See Alternative Nursery Rhymes
in Younger Children's Poems.
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​TROCHAIC METRE
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Paint a Spring Picture
Sleeping Through the Storm
Summer Shower (A)
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​VERB POEMS
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Searching
National Verbies' Day
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OTHERS
Iddledy Fiddeldy What Can I Spy?
Metre Gives Verse its Get-Up-And-Go
Packing Punch into Poetry and Prose
Shh- Listen to the Music of Our World
To Those Who Want to Write in Rhyme
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