LYRIC POETRY

W H AT I S I T ? TA L K W I T H A PA R T N E R .
LYRIC POETRY

• Lyric poetry typically describes the poet's innermost feelings or candid observations and
evokes a musical quality in its sounds and rhythms.
• Lyric poem is a poem with your own words. It is mean to be sung or rhyme with a rhythm.

• Imagine a skunk who proposes,

To his true love, surrounded by roses.
It may turn out just fine,
When she falls for his line,
But I wonder if flowers have noses?
DR SEUSS
• What was your favorite part? Why?
• Did all of the sentences rhymed?
LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION?

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Come up with an Focus on a color. Think about your Make a list
interesting phrase. favorite character of nouns. Then next
from a book or a to it, make a list of
movie. verbs. Connect
some of the nouns
with the verbs
COME UP WITH AN INTERESTING
PHRASE.
• Now repeat it several times throughout your poem.
For example, take the phrase “the secret night sky” or
“when I open my eyes” or “the scattered raindrop
music.” See if you can use it twice, or six times or at
the beginning of every fourth line in your poem.
FOCUS ON A COLOR.
• For example, what words does the color blue inspire? A
slow dance? Your best friend’s eyes? A cry of distress? The
freedom of laughter? Let your imagination run wild.
THINK ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE
CHARACTER FROM A BOOK OR A MOVIE.
• Describe how he or she felt at one point in his or her
journey. For example, how did Elsa from the
movie Frozen feel when she saw her sister Anna had
turned to ice? Stunned? Guilty? Confused? Or how did
Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games trilogy feel
when she was hunting in the woods? Free? Nervous?
Wistful?
MAKE A LIST OF NOUNS.
T H E N N E X T T O I T, M A K E A
LIST OF VERBS. CONNECT
SOME OF THE NOUNS WITH
THE VERBS

• What do you come up with?

Puddle-sneeze? Zebra-dash?
Rainbow-giggle? If you like
the sound of the words as
you roll them around in
your mouth, try putting
them on paper and see
where they lead you.
WHEN IT COMES TO POETRY, THERE IS
NO RIGHT OR WRONG!
STEP 1. BASE YOUR POEM

• Look for words around you:

– Pen
– Bear
– Rock
– Door
STEP 2. BUILD UP

– Pen - Ben
– Bear - Hair
– Rock - Sock
– Door - Floor
STEP 3. PUT IT TOGETHER

• There once was a boy named, he loved his pen, more than anything but poor Ben, lost one day
his pen on the bed.
• There onces was a bear who had no hair, no one knew how it ended up without hair, turned
up he was the eir, to the Crown of bears with no hair.
TIME TO PRACTICE!