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JOSIE'S POEMS



Poetic Devices You Must Use



By Josie Whitehead

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Writing with Pen

OUR POETICAL LANGUAGE

   See my POETIC ARTICLES
which will help with the understanding of metre etc.

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Learn about METRE in poetry.

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

In the Country Where No     

    Humans Go

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

 

Ice Cream Stream (An)

Night and Day

The Roving River  

        and lots and lots more.

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​​SHADOW POEMS/PARODY contd

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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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​ALSO ...​

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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

 

Because of . . .

Capture that Verse

Collector of Words (The)

Expressing Ourselves

From Nursery Rhymes to Psalms

Go-Betweens (The)

How to Write a Good Poem

I'm Pronoun 

Ideas for Poems

Iddledy Fiddeldy What Can I Spy?

Metre Gives Verse its Get-Up-And-Go

National Literacy Week

Packing Punch into Poetry and Prose

Playing with Words

Poet's Pantry (The)

Poet's Pantry (The) - (2)

Poetically Motivated

Poetry Anywhere

Poetry in Motion

Poetry is Powerful

Poetry Soup

Problem With Passengers (The)

Sail Your Psychic Seas

Seeing is Not Believing

Shh- Listen to the Music of Our World

To Those Who Want to Write in Rhyme

What is a Noun?

What is a Poem?

What is a Poet? - Limerick

With Mission in Mind

Words in a Cage

Words in a Poem

Words That Dance

Words. Words and More Words

Words, Words, Words

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