Category: Poetry

Climate Change Anthology

The Passion for Poetry institute has just run a 4 week course on Climate Change and Poetry. Here is an Anthology of the Students Assignment Poems. The students are mostly young Nigerians with a Passion to Learn Poetry enjoy their first efforts on Climate Change.

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Climbing

I read of adventures enacted by somethey climb    treacherous mountains such ideas     leave me numb                 they   free style    across high barren cliffs       bungee jump over an abyss I freak at the thought ofthe mind blowing    effort    danger          despair                a half inch from death yet life is a mountain with nail biting climbs Samantha… Continue reading Climbing

Memory Book

For the bemused and bewildered, a memory book Sets out main events, to reminisce and look I am bemused and bewildered, by your behaviour Trying to understand it, taste the flavour The trouble is, that memories vary My grasp on events, is contrary Are the vignettes of life, just pantomimes Was it smoke and mirrors,… Continue reading Memory Book

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Pauses in poetry

Rhythmic pauses in poetry The caesura plural caesurae.It can be used in poetry and prose.This literary device involves creating a break of a breath within a line where the two separate parts are distinguishable from one another yet intrinsically linked together. The purpose of using a caesura is to create a dramatic pause, which has… Continue reading Pauses in poetry

Writing Love Poetry

Want to write love poems? Unless you are writing to give to a specific person you need to find an edge a new angle. Telling someone you love them they are perfect has been so overdone that it is boring. You need a new angle, so much of love poetry has been overdone it has… Continue reading Writing Love Poetry