help with poetry homework please ?

lizzie

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Why don't you write a ballad (a story poem) about a summer love affair?

How and where you met him, what he looked like, your meetings and feelings, how you said goodbye etc, etc.

You could try and make it rhyme, but don't force it. Have a look at this.

http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/ballad.html
Good luck!
 
You could start with sumfin liek
My heart leapt when I saw him,
Running across the beach
His eyes blue as the water
His cheeks like a gentle peach
or
My heart aches as I think back,
Back to when I met you
A summer's night, alone on a beach,
No one but us two

You took my hand in yours,
And said how beautiful I was
But, of course, they were empty words,
I know they were, because...

Not amazing ideas but you can expand on them
 
Some men never think of it,
but you did-you came along
and would say you nearly bought me flowers
but something had gone wrong

your empty words
Like that empty vase
lie after lie
scar after scar
 
abwt 4 months ago i was ment to hand in 80-100 lines of poetry , but i couldnt do it so i just didnt hand it in. the past few months have been really hard for me , things happenin at home and stuff , nd since tht my school works been dropping and iv been messing around and getting into alot more trouble so i havnt exactly been payin attention so i dont know anything about poetry. i have tried loads of times to do it but i just cant i dont know how to start , what to write about or anything. he said i can choose 2 topics about anything i want ... i thought i might do love and summer ..... but im still really stuck =/

can anyone start me of with a poem or actually show me how to write one or something ...

thanks (:
 
here is something I wrote really quickly. But I hope it helps and
I wish you the best...................=)...
.If anything, maybe you will get a idea from it. Good Luck!




'Summertime'
--------------------------

When the air turns warm
and all the trees so green,
this is the most beautiful
time that I've ever seen.
The sun stays out longer,
and takes its time to set
letting us enjoy the water,
swimming and getting wet.

The want we feel is catching,
leaving smiles on everyone,
having so much endless fun,
until each hot day is done.
The barbeque's, the endless lemonade,
the great concoctions that we made,
All these things it seems, are apart
of whats so deep inside my heart.

To lay under the starry sky at night,
to dream of being that bird in flight,
to have a camp fire and sit in its glow,
are apart of this special time I know.

Until the days begin to shorten their stay
and the air carries a chill when it blows this way,
it's message starts to show its goodbye,
all I can do is close my eyes and sigh

Why all these days that are filled with fun
must again, say goodbye to everyone
another year until it makes its show
then sorrowfully, it's time to go.

Back to school, and cooler nights,
back to dreaming about summer delights.
 
You could start with sumfin liek
My heart leapt when I saw him,
Running across the beach
His eyes blue as the water
His cheeks like a gentle peach
or
My heart aches as I think back,
Back to when I met you
A summer's night, alone on a beach,
No one but us two

You took my hand in yours,
And said how beautiful I was
But, of course, they were empty words,
I know they were, because...

Not amazing ideas but you can expand on them
 
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