ANGELA'S POEMS

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Poetry for beginners, teachers and children

Copyright Angela Yardy 2010

Poetry Index

NOTE

Brand new Mothers day poems under "Poems arranged by subject" in the right hand column

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Learn about Rhyme and Rhythm

Rhythm Poetry
Why Rhyme?
Rhyme & Rhythm

Funny Poems

Rhyme Patterns
Meet the Lemurs poem
Alternative Nursery Rhymes
A Royal Pardon

Poetry Workshops & Competition Winners

Animal Rescue
The Royal Reply
Swinton Fitzwilliam Primary
Swinton Fitzwilliam Primary

Mining - Year 3 & 4

Free Subject Choice

A Bitter Pill
A Royal Apology
Seek & Ye Shall Find

World War Two - Year 5

Swinton Queen Primary
Beware the Knicker Nickers
Ashwood Primary

Free Subject Choice

The Foul Creature
Ghastly Gases
Ryecroft Infant School
Rosehill Junior School

Bonfire Senses Poem

Ministry of Defence Calling
An Unfortunate Poem

Free Subject Choice

My Bogie Collection
A Wii Celebration

Learn about Different Poetry Forms

My Mum's Menagerie
Who Pushed Humpty
Summary of Different Forms
My Sister is a Bookworm
Acrostics
A River's Journey
Cobwebs

Silly Poems from my Imagination

Acrostic

Poem
Examples

Poor Little Pit Pony
A Rainbow Poem
Shell
Tudor Times
Alliteration Al
Letter from Goldilocks
Alphabetical Alien Invasion
My Pony Jony-Jo
World War 2
Bradley Mulladley Mulloon
A Poem for the Teacher
Alphabet Poems
Alphabetical Alien Invasion
Bonfire Night
The School Caretaker
A Child's Letter to God

Alphabet

Poem
Examples

Things are Looking Sideways
Church,but not as we know it
ABC of Tudor Times
World War Two
Escalating Ambition
A Topsy Turvy World
Free Verse
Gran and Grandpa's Sayings
Unashamed Blob

Free verse

Example 
Poems

My Schizophrenic Cat
Healthy Food
Which Car?
Striving for Success
Haiku
Wish World
Insect Poems

Haiku

Poem
Examples

Guessing Game
Worlds Outside My Window
Knowing God by Name

Poems arranged by Subject

Trapper Boy
Kennings

Kennings

Poem
Examples

I'm a ?

Bonfire Night

Bonfire Night

Food

Healthy Food
Toddler - Good and Bad
Bonfire Night Sights & Sounds

Christmas

Letter Poems

A Healthy Food Rainbow
The Full Christmas Story
Child's Letter To God
Christmas Nativity Scripts
Evacuee's Postcard Home

Mining

Letter

Poem
Examples

Harvest Poems&Songs
Letter from Goldilocks
Nursery Rhyme Harvest
Child Mine Workers

The Royal Trilogy

A Royal Pardon
HARVEST- perfomance poem
Miner's Best Friend
The Royal Reply
Thanksgiving Song
Mothers Day Poems&Songs
Poor Little Pit Pony
A Royal Apology
Trapper Boy Poems
My Homebaked Mum
Someone Special
You're My Mum/Special
List Poems
Fitzwilliam Sch: Mining poems

Nature / Creation

Animal Rescue

List

Poem
Examples

Picture This
Minibeasts
Picture This
A River's Journey

Insects

Which Car?

Animals

A Poetic Nature Trail
Beautiful Butterfly
Shape Poems
Dancing Leaves
Butterfly Lifecycle Diagram
Animal Rescue
Lifecycle of a Butterfly
Cattitude
Escalating Ambition
Cobwebs
Evacuee
Guessing Game

Shape

Poem
Examples

I'm A ?
Opposites
Picturing Autumn Thoughts
Horse:Champion in his Field
Insect Poems
My Mum's Menagerie
Minibeasts
A River's Journey
My Schizophrenic cat
Spiders
Tears of Rain
Worried for my Pussycat
Unashamed Blob

Plants

Seaside

Dancing Leaves
Seaside Senses
Good Morning Little Snowdrop
Shell
Whatever the Weather
Swinton Queen Primary

Poems to Encourage and Inspire

All About You
I Can't
Laughter & Progress BFF

Seasons

Picturing Autumn Thoughts
Our Safe Place

Weather

A Poem for the Teacher
A Rainbow Poem
Power of the Written Word
The Sun
Poetic Nature Trail
The Sun to the Night Sky
Rotherham Ambassador
What Makes a Winner?
Tears of Rain

Poems to help with Specific Figurative Writing Techniques

Whatever the Weather

Nursery Rhymes

Alternative Nursery Rhymes
Alliteration Summary

Alliteration is a writing technique which I use very often in my poems, but the following poems are particularly good for recognising and highlighting the technique to children.
The "Royal" poems are my personal favourites as they are packed with alliteration, assonance and consonance, and the kids love them!

Traditional Nursery Rhymes
Letter from Goldilocks
Who pushed Humpty
Alliteration Al
Bad Behaviour:Alliteration Zoo
Beautiful Butterfly

World War 2

People and History

Bonfire Night
Evacuee
Ministry of Defence Calling
Bradley Mulladley Muloon
Evacuees Postcard Home
My Hero
Consonance Classes
Race for Power
World War Two
Good Morning little Snowdrop

See Tudors below right...

World War 2
A Royal Pardon
Queen Primary:WW2 Poems
The Royal Reply

This one has many different figurative elements and a worksheet too.

Seaside Senses

Tudors

ABC of Tudor Times
My Tudor Research

Senses

Coming to my Senses
Hyperbole
Making Sense Rhyme&Rhythm
From Prince to King
Onomatopoeia
Seaside Senses
Henry the Eighth's Wives
Fitzwilliam Sch: Mining poems
Personification
Henry's Wives
Dancing Leaves
The Real Henry VIII
Good Morning Little Snowdrop

W

The poems marked with "W" have a worksheet too.

W

Tudor - Rich and Poor
A River's Journey
Tudor Times
Seaside Senses
Sounds&Sights Bonfire Night

W

The Sun
Tears of Rain

W

Waiting for the Evening Bus
Similes and Metaphors
Gran and Grandpa's sayings
Millicent the Millipede

Also full of alliteration

My Schizophrenic Cat
Seaside Senses
Sights&Sounds Bonfire Night
Tears of Rain
Tudor - Rich and Poor
Creative Writing Ideas

Rather than duplicating so many of my poems in this index, see also "silly poems from my imagination" at the top right of this page

Poem for the Teacher
Topsy Turvy World
Uninspired
Wish World
Worlds Outside my Window
Word Play
Healthy Food

Some games to have fun with word play...

Henry's Wives

Poems demonstrating word play...

Newspaper Word Play
My Mum's Menagerie
Word Play Jokes Game
A Poetic Nature Trail
Striving for Success
Things are Looking Sideways
A Wii Celebration
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