Renga:
The first snowflake falls
Bushes wear cozy white hats
Winter has arrived.
Remember Autumn’s warm breeze,
I’d love to go back there, please.
Haiku:
Black wind breaks the sky;
Fiery breath is my waking.
A dragon, am I.
Elegy:
Before a bird was about to fly,
He up and died and said goodbye.
Now up in the heavens he lives today
Swooping into the woods where he used to play.
Cinquain:
Cloudy
Gray skies, fast wind
Sleeping, reading, playing
Curl into a blanket and dream
Dark day
Tyburn:
Rumbling
Fumbling
Grumbling
Bumbling
Along came a rumbling, fumbling bear
Who upset the grumbling, bumbling bee
Dash Codiga, an 11-year-old student at Alt Ed Academy and author of Pencil, Paper, Poetry: A How-to-Write-Poetry Coloring Book, hopes to inspire an appreciation for poetry and an interest in writing published works in the minds of middle schoolers everywhere.
