1. A lizard in a blizzard
Got a snowflake in his gizzard
And nothing else much happened, I’m afraid
But lizard rhymed with gizzard
And that my dear, is why most poems are made.
-Shel Silverstein

2. What is poetry?
Where do you find it?

3. Ten thousand hours felt like ten thousand ants
Ten thousands ants, they carry me
Ryan Lewis and Macklemore
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame
Les Miserables

4. Homer Simpson is a poet, what?

6. Poetry can make you buy products.
Or can it?

7. It can be in different performances and entertainment.

8. What do you think is the emotion of this poem?
Why?
What do you think the message of the poem is?

10. And I'm gonna put white hands
Daybreak in Alabama
When I get to be a composer
I'm gonna write me some music about
And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it
Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist
And falling out of heaven like soft dew.
I'm gonna put some tall tall trees in it
And the scent of pine needles
And the smell of red clay after rain
And long red necks
And poppy colored faces
And big brown arms
And the field daisy eyes
Of black and white black white black people
And I'm gonna put white hands
And black hands and brown and yellow hands
And red clay earth hands in it
Touching everybody with kind fingers
And touching each other natural as dew
In that dawn of music when I
Get to be a composer
And write about daybreak
In Alabama.
Langston Hughes

11. Library Blackout Poetry
1. One page of writing – read it.
2. Then, read it again and circle in pencil words that you think are essential to the page
3. Then, edit the words to create feeling and images..blacking out as the example
Or rewriting on a separate page.

12. Is one who wishes to know Himself; I am a sleeping thought
In my nature
Is one who wishes to know
Himself;
I am a sleeping thought
That does not cease thinking
I am a dream
That I see and feel
I am

13. Example

14. Examples