In humanities this April, which is poetry month, we started writing poetry. We started by Dave sharing a doc of how to write different poems. It was called Various Poetry Activities. It explained how to write haikus, which are my favorite, memory poems and a lot more. We would then choose a type of poem to write, and using the rules of how to write it, write it. I’ve done mostly haikus, but I have also done memory poems. The first poem we wrote had to be a haiku, and I worked with Zach and Miles. We had inspiration from Zach, because he always breaks his phone.

MyPhone:

Phone’s are great friends, but

We all smash them way too much.

And then we feel dead.

In the next class we were allowed to do any poem we wanted to. I wrote a memory poem about the Mets winning a world series game. The next class we did a New York Times poetry competition haiku that had to be about NYC. There was 5 categories: Commute, strangers, 6am, the island, and one other. My favorite was a 6am one I wrote. It was about how I hate getting up for school in the morning.

6 AM:

I wake up early

Damn alarm clock I hate you

Snooze bar is the best
A strength I had with this was thinking of the idea of the poem. That is always the easiest part for me. A challenge I had was expressing it in words. Each line of the poems I normally write 3 or 4 times before I got a good one out. My goal is to not write just haikus and to try some other types of poems.