Creative Writing

Poetry

Directions: Choose and carefully read one poem from a published author. A list of poems has been provided below to get you started.

• I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
• Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
• I carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings
• Two Tramps in Mudtime by Robert Frost
• Mending Wall by Robert Frost
• A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
• There is another sky by Emily Dickinson
• A Girl by Ezra Pound
• Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
• Fast rode the knight by Stephen Crane
• What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali
• Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• My Mistress's Eyes are Nothing like the Sun by William Shakespeare
• When You are Old by William Keats