 Poetry: June 07, 2006 Issue [#1088] |
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Poetry! It comes in all styles and meanings. Some poems express personal feelings; others demonstrate a particular pattern. Most of us write some combination in between. I'll be offering advice on different styles and pointing out techniques to improve your poems. Enjoy  --John~Ashen |
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Children's Poetry
Before we master the confusions and complexities of adult life, we are children. If we are to later be enthralled by the wonders of poetry, we ought to be wooed early. What do kids want in a poem, though? That's easy - entertainment.
Authors like Shel Silverstein know that you can keep a child's attention with simple rhymes. Dr. Seuss proved that nonsensical words will do just fine when no better option is available. J.K. Rowling has shown us that a wild cornucopia of fantastic elements can capture kids' imaginations.
All these things might turn off adult readers, but in a children's poem they are your bread and butter. Don't get too fancy in your patterns. Don't sweat the strictures of grammar and semantics. Lastly, don't worry about straying from your original topic.
Now, be careful not to patronize youngsters. They know when they're being talked down to. Some people think that if their poems are poor or immature, they can just call them children's poems and be let off the hook of quality. This is absolutely false! Poems for kids are not dumbed-down versions of adult poetry.
If anything, they are harder to write than regular poems. After all, poems for children have the added requirement that they must actually entertain roving attention spans. You must keep your core audience in mind. As long as they are still listening, they're happy and you've succeeded. All you need to do is give them an ending to celebrate. |
Pieces for those just kid-ding:
This last is not a poem, but I couldn't pass it up:
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About last month's article on Slam poetry:
Katya the Poet comments: I do agree that in oral SLAMS--in bars and at competitions--the rhymes and alliteration abound!
Here, though, the SLAMs I have participated in have taken a turn, honoring the poem as poem, on the screen or on the page as well as in the mouth. Since all poetry originated to be heard, to be oral, and since all kinds of forms have descended from that, good poems of all kinds--not just rhymed or alliterative ones--can work in SLAMs!!!
Mavis Moog  opines: Hearing the poet read his own poetry is often an eye (or should that be ear) opening experience.
Sometimes, they emphasise the sound and rhythm of their words just right. Sometimes they ham it up so badly it becomes a comedy act. Unfortunately not all poets are first-rate performers 
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