Essay on What Is Poetry

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What is Poetry?

• Poetry is about the sound • A way to express yourself • Poetry is very emotional •

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• Poetry #1……Concrete/Shape/Picture Poems (3)
P1
• Poetry #2……I Am Poem
P2
• Poetry #3……Personification Poem
P3
• Poetry #4……Action Poem
P4
• Poetry #5……Clerihew Poem
P5

Concrete Poem

I Am

I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.
I wonder someday I can be an acknowledgeable badminton player.
I hear the audiences acclaiming for my arrival.
I see the bird zooming in the court.
I want to be a professional badminton player.
I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.

I pretend to be an absolute badminton player.
I feel the blessedness deep inside my heart.
I touch my racket in a courageous manner.
I worry about missing the birds.
I cry when I got defeated.
I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.

I dream I was play badminton during the Olympic.
I try to outright my dream.
I am a little boy who likes to play badminton.

-Johnny Zhang

Personification Poem

Creating and recreating
Shapes of desire
A cunning way to rest
My tired brain, painting
Coloured to aspire
A curve to be hugged
A corner to be embraced.

Murmuring song of Past remembrance
Mind ravaged in situ.
Energising the hand
To ask for spirit’s favour
Setting up an arrangement
To trap myself aflame
Within a creative frame

-Johnny Zhang

Action Poem Chlorine may ruin my hair
And irritate my eyes
I may not be as quick
I may not have the perfect stroke
Or the perfect glide

I may forget to count my breaths or the meters along the way
If I still had a coach - he'd definitely have something to say

But after seven years
It feels as if I've never left
How I went this long without?

I forgot what

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