How to write a Weather Poem ~
Today’s challenge is to write a poem about the weather –
there are many ways you can approach it and feel free to use whatever style of
poetry suits you, but here is one idea:
Sometimes you can get your inspiration from a poem someone
else wrote – you won’t be copying the poem, but rather, copying the flow and
style of it. I’ll use a well-known poet and poem as an example:
Carl Sandburg and his poem on “Fog”
Fog
The fog
comes
on little
cat feet.
It sits
looking
over harbor
and city
on silent
haunches
and then
moves on.
© Carl Sandburg
OKAY – with this as our example here is how we would pick
what goes on which line in our new poem:
Title:
Form of Nature chosen
Line #1: Title + (how it arrives or begins as the animal would arrive)
Line #2: Tell what it does
Line #3: And how it does it
Line #4: And where it is
Line #5: Tell how it leaves (as the animal would leave)
Line #1: Title + (how it arrives or begins as the animal would arrive)
Line #2: Tell what it does
Line #3: And how it does it
Line #4: And where it is
Line #5: Tell how it leaves (as the animal would leave)
OK, with that, I'll leave
you to it - I have a family function today and will write my poem later
- once I do, I'll come back and put it in here and take this "excuse"
out. LOL ~ Cheers!! Have a nice day ~
3 comments:
The weather lately is weird
It can't make up its mind
It doesn't help when one day
You're shoveling snow outside.
Then the next day is so warm
You don't need a coat
Then a few days later
We might need a boat!!
Rain
It comes suddenly like bats overhead,
swooping lower down
with echoes
in strong wind outside the glass,
disappearing under the eaves.
Couldn't wrap my head around that animal format, so I wrote this instead:
Texas Thunder Storm
With a sudden crackling and popping
the lightning scratches across the sky as
the low, dark rumbling roars outside the window
and I crawl beneath the sheets,
seeking the silent comfort of my husband's warmth.
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