Phew! I've missed class boku.

FrancisTony:
Phew! I've missed class boku.

Where's my cane?

texanomaly:


Where's my cane?

I'm sorry.

Many things failed me.

FrancisTony:

I'm sorry.

Many things failed me.

Ok this time.

FrancisTony:
Phew! I've missed class boku.

lazy student

Elantracey:
lazy student

Chai! If I narrate wetin happen to me, eh; You go pity me.

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Enters quietly,so that Laykorn won't
see me and call me to sit in the front.

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FrancisTony:

Chai! If I narrate wetin happen to me, eh; You go pity me.

ehya do, narrate am now, you know say i like tori well well

You wont throw anyone out I know

[b]1) Think of a nice topic:

What I'm trying to say here is that before you even try to write a poem in free verse, have a clear idea of what you want to do. Have a topic you want to write about. This applies to all styles of poetry too and all forms.

Remember, your free verse poem can be about anything. Your poem doesn't always have to be about popular themes like love or the sun or the moon or freedom, although these are always great themes to write about.

If you can't think about something to write about now, these are a few ideas for your free verse.

Rain, snow, or a storm
An animal you think is beautiful or strange
Your parents or children
How a kiss feels
The house where you were born
A smell that brings back memories
Being a teenager, becoming an adult, middle age, old
age
Feeling lonely
The moon
Getting lost
Marriage or divorce
An imaginary friend
Life in the future
The hottest, coldest, or most exhausted you have
ever felt
Having a fever
A new version of a fairy-tale
The shapes you see in clouds[/b]

Enters class in a Bugatti

Elantracey:
ehya do, narrate am now, you know say i like tori well well

On my diary.

Later....

[b]Step 2: Think of keywords and idea words. Make a word-list:
Imagine your topic was 'waterfall'. The words that probably came to your mind are: waterfall, stream, flow, wind, rush, peace, awe, crashing, countryside.

Your keyword list doesn't mean that those are the only words that will be in your poem. It doesn't even mean that everyone of the words will be in your poem. It is simply a word bank you can take from as you write on.

Imagine your topic was on a murder story these are the words that probably came to your mind are: assassin, blood, wicked, murder, killed, killer, killing, bloody, death, destruction, nigger, crime, distort, anger, disfigure, gun, bullet, good, bad, shoot, shot, night, bar, drunk, pain, guilty, gory, suspect, avenge, revenge and the list goes on.

You should add some phrases to your list too. Phrases form a vital ingredient in poem.

Eg: a minute before nine, sound of the gun, black pistol in hand. Put to death. Etc

If you have a sufficient word list, its always rare to get stuck at the middle of a poem because of lack of words.
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hi class...sorry i came late

Teacher laykorn have i been expelled ?

[b]3) Start constructing your poem:

A great thing about free verse poems is that you do not need to worry about rhyming (like in many styles), metre (like in a haiku) or beginnings (like in acrostics), there is no structure to it; but all the while it is important that your poem has a natural flow to it.

Topic : Waterfall
Keywords : waterfall, stream, flow, wind, rush, peace, awe, crashing, countryside, beauty

Start:
"The gushing voice entertains me, the splendid voice.
The rush of the waterfall fills me with awe
And a great beauty I will always remember.

NB: This could serve as a stanza of the poem in free verse. This could even stand as a short poem in free verse since it delivers an idea, a complete idea then it could be a complete poem.

Imagine we wanted to use these first three lines as a stanza, this is how we could add to it.

Stanza 1:
"The gushing voice entertains me, the splendid voice.
The rush of the waterfall fills me with awe
And a great beauty I will always remember

Stanza 2:

For stanza 2, you can do a deeper description of the waterfall. Its sight, sounds feel.

You can ask questions about it, wonder who created it.

You can wish for a night with your lover beside it.

You can liken your hope for a peaceful world with it.

It could be in 3 lines too, and it could be longer.

It could be shorter too.

Remember it is free verse.

[The above could be a poem in free verse too]

Example 2
Topic: Murder Story
Keywords: assassin, blood, wicked, murder, killed, killer, killing, bloody, death, destruction, nigger, crime, distort, anger, disfigure, gun, bullet, good, bad, shoot, shot, night, bar, drunk, pain, guilty, gory, suspect, avenge, revenge, hard, voice, dark, alley, vulnerable, night, dread, dream, reality, pistol, lastday

Start:
Stanza 1

[Vulnerable in the dark alley, at nine in the night.
Eve heard another hard voice behind her.
She tried to imagine it was a dream just, she'd wake up.
But the assassin's blow, to the middle of her fore head, jerked her out of the dream.
And brought her to reality.
A dangerous reality, the pistol stared at her, with eagerness to make her birthday her lastday.]

We can let this be a short poem since it conveys a complete idea. We can also make it one stanza. We can add to it.

We can describe more how the scene looked like.

We can say if she was killed or not.

We can talk about the reason a gun was pointed at her.

We can say a thousand and one things in the next stanza.
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Hi all,
As you all know am the surrogate of laykorn in this class.
Am so humbled been in your presence today, because what i see here are not just students but great poets that will rock the literary world.

pls what's the difference between free verse,run on line,enjambment and blank verse:

Hang on has the class started already?!..maybe cos im in the UK so I am an hour behind?

Robert frost described freestyle as 'playing table tennis without net

Your poem is unique and a reflection of you.

Our lives don't follow flawless pattern and your poetry don't have to either

Samguine:
Enters class in a Bugatti

please park well, your blocking my Lamborghini from entering

babym7681:
pls what's the difference between free verse,run on line,enjambment and blank verse:

Free verse as laykorn said before is a poem without rythm or structure but punctuation should be used to show pauses and brakes for a better understanding of the poem.

A line is defined as a row of words
Run on line is a line of poetry in which the punctuation is not contained within the line, and the line breaks without been punctuated.

Enjabment is like a car that has failed its brake, it is the continuation of a sentence,without pausing or stopping even after the end of aline,couplet or stanza.