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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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Thanks to Peter Hudspith for this wonderful illustration.

Limericks are such fun to both read and write.

Do you recognize the gentleman above who is scratching his nose and his toe also?  You'll love this fun limerick:


DISPATCHING YOUR TICKLE

 

​​SHADOW POEMS/PARODY contd

Do Come for Tea, Dear

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 

ALSO ...

 See Alternative Nursery Rhymes

  in Younger Children's Poems.

TROCHAIC METRE

Paint a Spring Picture

Sleeping Through the Storm

Summer Shower (A)

VERB POEMS

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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