National Poetry Day - read, write, recite, share a poem!
Read our Prime Minister Bill English's son Bart's poem "Ascend": The Tuesday Poem on the Spinoff blog.
Library poetry competition entry:
One day a little girl saw a stray
She told him to go away
But he wanted to stay
On the first of May
The stray zapped everyone with a laser ray
By Isaac Kim Room 6
Window Cleaners
They were there this morning,
high up on an office block.
One was polishing the sun,
another rinsing fleecy clouds,
a third rubbing the blue sky.
If I come back tonight,
will they still be there -
One scrubbing the shooting stars,
another washing the moon,
a third wiping down the Milky Way?
By David Hill
Do you have a favourite poem in another language to post?
The Scott family have sent in this famous poem from the Tang Dynasty that Paige Scott, remembers reciting in school during Spring.
The Scott family have sent in this famous poem from the Tang Dynasty that Paige Scott, remembers reciting in school during Spring.
春曉
英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕
Spring Dawn
Spring morning arrives unnoticed in my slumber,
Till I hear birds twittering everywhere.
It springs to mind a storm raged through overnight,
Off it blew how many flowers I wonder?
By Meng Hao Ran
The Nasrallah family sent in this Arabic one and Celine and Ghenwa translated it into English for us.
Mother
Mother, mother
You are my song
Filling my heart with love
You are my anthem
Your celebration is my celebration
The smile of my mother
Is the secret of my being
Like a bird
Filling the home with happiness
The kiss of my mother
Is the light of my day
Opening my eyes at sunrise
She strokes my head
I love my mother
I'm ready to do everything for my mother
By Solaiman Alessa
Click on the link to for a video poem: Sam Who Only Ate Jam - by American poet Kenn Nesbitt
Try writing a concrete poem (sometimes called a shape poem)
Different cultures write poetry in different styles.
Do you know how to write a Japanese Haiku poem?
