Acrostic Poem

Repeated debate that proves no champion


Infuriated when triumphed


Vicious competition knows no bounds


Allies unsatisfied, turn to foes


Livid and violent, determined to prevail


Refusing to be second best


You can't win 

Title: Rivalry

Style of poem: Acrostic Poem

Inspiration: the inspiration for this poem was the competition between rivals. How someone might feel if they were deep in competition and determined to win. 

Model Poem

"The Roads Not Taken" 

Robert Frost

The roads diverged in a yellow wood 

Sorry I could not have traveled both

And be one traveler, long I stood

Looking down one as far as I could

To where it had bent in the undergrowth

I've taken the other, as just as fair,

Perhaps the other'a better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear

And, OH! That morning had equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden back

Oh, I marked that first for another day

I know now what leads on to way

My doubts that I should never come back

I tell my story with this'a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence

Two roads diverged in a wood an I,

I have taken the one more traveled

And; has this made all the difference

Title: The Road I Toke

Style of poem: Model Poem

Inspiration: I changed the original poem (the roads not taken by Robert Frost) and switched the perspective from someone having been different and appreciating that to one of someone who regrets "taking the road more traveled" 

Pantoum

"The inmate"

tik.tik.tik.tik. Time is dragging on

I watch the red arm going 'round and sigh

Twelve O'clock now gone

I'm trapped in my own my own sad lie

I watch the red arm going 'round and sigh

I wonder if my mind can bear

I'm trapped in my own my own sad lie

How on earth can this be "fair"?

I wonder if my mind can bear

When this ends? I do not know

How on earth can this be "fair"?

I would think it's better down bellow

When this ends? I do not know

Twelve O'clock now gone

I would think it's better down bellow

tik.tik.tik.tik. Time is dragging on

Title: The inmate

Style of poem: Pantoum

Inspiration: Being trapped in any situation. It was originally me not having an idea and counting the minutes until the end of the day but I exaggerated it (greatly)  to make it about the life of a prison inmate.

Cinquain Poem

The Performance

Practice.

repeating it

I wish I could practice

the nerves,chipped reeds or faulty mic's

it's time

The Stage.

everyone stares

three bars of rest seems so short

the final three notes fall-I wait

applause

Title: The Performance

Style of poem: Cinquain

Inspiration: The first time I had to play "Tommorow's Memomries" on the stage in front of an audience.

Introduction Poem

I am Helena

I've read the entire Harry Potter series twice

I play saxophone, trumpet and guitar

I can also play clarinet

I am allergic the penicillin

I love Star Trek

I hate cats

I have never had poison ivy

My iPod has over 2000 songs on it

I am Helena

Title: I am Helena

Style of poem: Introduction

Inspiration: Myself?

Circle Poem

Telephone 

Talking- communication- social-networks- Facebook- e-mail- snail mail- Canada Post- postage stamps-collection-hoarding- mental illness 

disease- famine- charity orphans-unfortunate-luck-lottery-bankrupt-poverty-shelters-hurricane-relief-headache-Tylenol -migraine-bright lights-light bulb-Thomas Edison-Einstein-genius-brilliant ideas 

Invention

Title: Telephone

Style of poem: Circle Poem

Inspiration: Current events mixed with history.

Extended Metaphor Poem

Windswept pages 

A good book is wind 

It starts as a subtle breeze 

Gradually a cloud of thoughts form and the wind picks up 

Increasing it's velocity until it overpowers your surroundings 

A debris of ideas hurricane your mind 

A tornado seems to grip you enveloping you in it's twists and turns 

Then as the flurry of words deviate reality sets in 

The storm fades

Title: Windswept Pages

Style of poem: Extended Metaphor

Inspiration: Getting lost in a good book