This weeks prompt as we as we head towards Anzac Day is “Remember”
Please send poetry this week to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Cheers
Jeanie
And today’s quote:
Category Archives: Poetry Prompts 2018
Prompt #9 A mixed bag
1 CommentThankyou for the “mixed bag” of types of poetry being sent through.
Congratulations to Australia in The Commonwealth Games with 198 medals
Please continue to send any poetry this week to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
In the last week I was sent a poem from a writer in America and thought to put it in today. It’s wonderful that OS writers are following our blog.
Throughout the world, we each sometimes fall
Entrenched in our ways, or simply succomb to powerless
Apathy. Children remind us to stop, reflect, to
Challenge ourselves, approach the world in curiosity.
Help each other to take brave risks.
Examine our privilege and take responsibility for systemic inequalities.
Examine our privilege and take responsibility for systemic inequalities.
Reassess, react, reimagine, revolution. Repeat.
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Madeleine is a globetrotter, vegan animal rights activist, and educator currently teaching primary school in Israel. She spends her free time reading, writing, running, and ruining her poor flatmates’ kitchen aesthetic with her ever-growing kombucha brew. She likes to make sure to learn or explore something new each day
And today’s quote:
Don Poynter was among other things the inventor of Uncle Fester’s Mystery Light Bulb featured on the “Addams Family” show.
As it’s school holidays we won’t have Teacher Notes for a few Thursdays. All Teachers have a nice break and enjoy reading a poem each morning.
Cheers
Jeanie
Prompt #8 Commonwealth Games 2018
Leave a commentThankyou for the Haiku poems in the last week. We will take a break from the different types of poetry this week and call for poems on the Commonwealth Games.
Prompt: Commonwealth Games 2018
Go Aussies
Please Email poems to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Cheers
Jeanie
And today’s quote:
Prompt #6 Word Association and Easter with Teacher Notes
1 CommentGood Morning,
Thankyou for your contributions in the last week.
Prompt #6 is Word Association poetry and Easter but please send in any other poems as well.
Heads up for those needing a bit more time writing: Our next Prompt after Easter will be Haiku.
Teacher Notes are in today instead of Thursday to give teachers ideas at the start of this week.
Please Email poems to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Teacher Notes: Jeanie Axton
Easter is another opportunity to create an egg shape poem and write in describing words associated with Easter.
1. Here is a site online with Easter poems and songs you may like to use.
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/poetry/index.htm
2. Another engaging idea would be to show the students the trailer to the recently released movie “Peter Rabbit”. I think this will be a very popular Easter or April school holidays outing for families.
Don’t forget to mention Beatrix Potter the original famous author of the Peter Rabbit series of books.
3. And one more idea an oldie but a goodie. Dye real eggs (check re egg allergies first) as a classroom activity. Remembering through all these activities to reinforce the describing words for Easter that can be used in poems the children write.
Here is a chart of natural dyes to use with real eggs.
And Todays quote:
Cheers and Happy Easter
Jeanie
Prompt #5 continued Shape Poems
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Good Morning,
This week we will continue with Shape Poems. The response has been great.
To give you the heads up our next prompt will be word association poems. A really good example is Di Bates recent “Car Sick “ poem. Leading up to Easter it would be Eggsalent if you could send in any Easter Poems as well.
Coming up:
Prompt #6 Word Association and Easter
And please send in any other poems you like.
mailto:poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
A few notes:
One of our regular poets was contacted by School Magazine recently showing interest in her work. This is wonderful that publishing poems on the site can lead to other opportunities.
If you have Email addresses of Heads of English departments and other suitable contacts in either state or private education in your state of Australia please send through to me. I’m working on sending the blog details to the South Australian Education Department. The wheels are moving slowly though.
Have a great week
Jeanie
And today’s quote:
Prompt #5 Shape Poems
2 CommentsThankyou for the poetry sent in the last week.
This week can you give Shape Poetry a go?
A shape poem is shaped in the object it is describing.
Below is an example by JR Poulter
Please continue to send in any poems you write and they can be posted inbetween submissions.
Email to:poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Cheers
Jeanie
And a quote for today:
Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist.
Friends of Acrostic
Leave a commentThankyou for the Acrostic poetry
Acrostics have friends called Mesostics which has the word running down the middle of the poem and Horizontic where the poem is written in a single line and the important letters are in capitals. There are double acrostics where each line begins and ends in the letters of the chosen word.
Here’s a simple example of a Mesostic Poem:
Please send these friends of Acrostic poems to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
A few other bits and pieces today:
1.
MAGIC POEMS – POTIONS, LOTIONS, SPELLS AND SMELLS
From Paul Cookson
I am editing a new collection of Magic Poems for Bloomsbury.
This is due for publication in 2019 but we will be putting it together this year.
I’ll be looking for a wide range of NEW AND UNPUBLISHED poems in a variety of styles that cover all aspects of magic – spells, potions, witches, wizards, beasts, creatures, tricks, powers etc.
Obviously, Bloomsbury publish Harry Potter and my original idea was to have a set of poems that celebrate 20 years of Harry and Hogwarts etc. However, for copyright reasons we need to steer away from direct references to things that are specific to Harry – death eaters, dementors, quidditch etc.
So – keep the references general and open ended!
Because of budget limitations, fees for poems are likely to be £30 – £50 maximum.
The collection will have as many new and original poems as possible but will have to include anons, out of copyright, traditional verses and several of my own.
Age range : 7- 12
Deadline : 30th April 2018
Please send a maximum of FOUR poems for consideration
Please make sure your name and details are on each poem
Please send the poems as ONE attachment – preferably Word
Send poems to paulcooksonpoet@gmail.com and mark them MAGIC POEMS
Thanks – have fun and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Paul Cookson
2. Writers you can submit your work to Readers’ Favorite for a free review – if you get a 4 or 5 star review, you are also, among other benefits, submitted to CLCD – a huge international database of children’s literature.
http://www.clcd.com/#/welcome
And finally today’s quote:
Cheers
Jeanie
Prompt #4 Acrostic week
Leave a commentAcrostic week here we go
Could you give it a shot?
Reach within
Oh remember the first letter of each line
Spells out a word
Try something new
Imaginative and incredible
Can you email to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
We will each week for a time have a different style of poetry to showcase. If you have never tried a certain type how about giving it a go?
Thankyou for your contributions
Jeanie
And incase you were wondering where the word Acrostic comes from read below for the answer.
Year of the Dog
1 CommentThankyou for the dog poems that have been submitted for Chinese New Year
“The Year of the Dog”
Please continue to send in Dog/Chinese related poetry until the 25th to
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Cheers
Jeanie
Today a traditional Chinese New Year greeting sent in by James A.
Gongxi gongxi — wishing you
gongxi facai — make a fortune,
May the New Year bring you luck
and may you make your fortune soon!
(Gongxi facai is a traditional New Year greeting.
Phonetically,
gong-see: to wish
far-tsai: make a fortune)
James Aitchison
Prompt #3 “The Year of the Dog”
2 CommentsGood Morning,
Thankyou for the last week of contributions. If your poem hasn’t been posted yet it will be in time.
This week I have a couple of Valentine Days poems to post then from the 16th leading up to the 25th our prompt is the theme of this years Chinese New Year “The Year of The Dog”
Please send to: poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Have fun writing
Jeanie
And todays quote:
Australian Children’s Poetry 