![]() ![]() ![]() This gives me a better chance at success.įinally, I will often go to the library to write. Then I will go over the list and pick the one or two that look the most promising and try to work on those. Instead of thinking of one thing and then trying to write a poem about it, I will write down as many “first lines” as I can think of, whether or not they are any good. These are just a few of the places where I “get my ideas,” and they are probably the easiest places for young writers to start looking for their own ideas.Īlso, rather than trying to find that ONE GREAT IDEA for a poem, I will try to come up with 20 ideas of any kind. Tell the reader about a fictional character who has some amazing ability. Claim that your dog can speak French, or that you just came back from Mars, or that you built a house out of Jell-o. Did you go someplace not so interesting? Write a poem about that. Gone anyplace interesting lately? Write a poem about it. Did something good happen to you? Did you find a five-dollar bill while you were walking down the street? Or did something bad happen? Maybe you were riding your bike and you crashed into a tree. What’s the first thing you see? A chair? A computer? A stapler? A clock? A plant? Use that thing as a starting point for a poem. Whatever it is that bugs you, write a poem about it. ![]() Maybe you don’t like homework, or Brussels sprouts, or something else. If your favorite thing is video games, your dog, pizza, soccer, cartoons, or just about anything else, write a poem about that. But to help young writers come up with their own ideas for poems, I compiled the following list of easy places to find ideas. I guess the assumption is that all of my ideas come from the same place, so I start by telling students that every poem is its own idea, and that every idea is unique and comes from somewhere that no other ideas came from. Because the poems I write tend to be creative and imaginative, one of the most common questions I get is “where do your ideas come from?” I visit a lot of schools and libraries, and I speak to as many as 30,000 kids each year. Written by Kenn Nesbitt, poet and founder of Poetry for Kids ![]()
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