Take your zip code and make a poem about your home with that many words or syllables in each line. I used syllables to describe the last 3 zip codes I lived in: 11741, 42701, and 32835.
New
York
Holbrook was my childhood home
Sometimes I miss
It
Kentucky was
Second
E'town is where I found him
...
Jem
Orlando
Is where
I am now and the plants here look
like fireworks
celebrating me.
Fruit Poems:
Watermelon Haiku:
(a Haiku is a Japanese poem style with 3 lines containing 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. Usually they make you see an ordinary object from a different point of view. Here is mine.)
ooh, Watermelon!
how I hope you are seedless
it's so much less work...
Tomato Cinquain:
(a Cinquain is a poem style that with 5 lines containing 1 word, 2 descriptive words, 3 action words, 4 words that convey feeling, and 1 word again. Here is mine.)
Tomato
red, juicy,
fruit in disguise...
I think you're disgusting,
Tomato
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