Poetry is..

Students will be exploring poetry weekly on Mondays and Fridays. To start of our unit work, I asked students what they thought poetry was. Next, I had students listen to a few poets (adults and students) read their work. At the conclusion of the lesson, I asked students to reflect again on what poetry was. Here are their responses:

Poetry is…

Rhyming stories…A different way of saying things…A way to tell stories…Spoken…Mixes rhyming and telling how you feel about something…Is short writing…Something you can write anytime…Is only one page…
Comes in many different forms…Is the grouping of words…Is words broken by space and commas…Stuff that rhymes…A way to express your feelings in different ways…A way to not be bottled up…Can be about anything you want it to be…Is a graceful way to express yourself…Expresses your feeling without speaking…
A way to creatively express yourself…A bunch of phrases that come together to make a story…Words that flow together to make things seem clam or angry…Anything you want it to be…Words that describe feelings…
About anything—nature, lives, people…Is not like a story but is...Describe things in life…A romantic way to explain feelings…A way to make things interesting…A way to let your feelings out…A place to be yourself…Sentences with a lot of power to them…Expressing yourself through words and forms…Something you’ve experienced…Writing that can be a song…A variety of feelings…Creative writing with meaning, feeling and sometimes symbolism…A kind of writing…What you feel and see…Taking a story and bending it into new words to make it new…Is descriptive words…Is art…Is a story in lines or little paragraphs…Doesn’t have to rhyme…Sometimes pointless…A way to express you you are feeling without really saying it…A way to share thoughts and opinions…Thoughtful words put together...Short and deep…Ideas that relate to each other…a song before it is a song…Weird…abut random things…Funny…Really unique…Patterns in writing with words...
Something I like to write...A part of who I am