POETRY

"Poetry sparks a love of language and verse that will last a lifetime"

                                                                            Caroline Kennedy

Poetry Power
How to Eat a Poem

By Eve Merriam

Don’t be polite.

Bite in.

Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.

It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.

You do not need a knife or fork or spoon

Or plate or napkin or tablecloth.

For there is no core

or stem

or rind

or pit

or seed

or skin

to throw away.

Poetry

By Elanor Farjeon

What is Poetry? Who knows?

Not a rose, but the scent of a rose;

Not the sky, but the light of the sky;

Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly;

Not the sea, but the sound of the sea;

Not myself, but what makes me

See, hear, and feel something that prose

Cannot: and what it is, who knows?

  Poems taken from  A Family of Poems  by Caroline Kennedy

POETRY FOR CHILDREN

"Hope is the thing with Feathers"

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Good Hot Dogs

More Poems:

Sick

School Daze Rap

Ice Can Scream

With God on Our Side by Bob Dylan

Great Poetry Websites:

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/

http://www.emule.com/poetry/

http://www.poems.com/

http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.php

http://www.poetryteachers.com/

http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku4.htm

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/writing/poetry/

http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/teacher.htm

Interactive Poetry Websites

KidzPage

Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales

Scholastic's Dinosaur Write

Poetry Splatter

Poetry Express

Scholastic's Poetry Writing With Karla Kuskin, Jack Prelutsky, and Jan Marzollo