Symmetry
This form is called a Mirror Poem by Joan Bransfield Graham, from whom I learned it in the early ’90s, or a Reverso Poem by Marilyn Singer.
I Like That Night Follows Day
What if there was never night
if it was always light…and light?
Cat Act
The scruffy house cat
aches to fly–
she dreams all day of
wings and sky!
The 2013 Progressive Poem by 30 Poets of the Kidlitosphere
This Progressive Poem has been moving from blog to blog, growing poet by poet, for 29 days until it’s come here for one final line.
Says the Tree in the Dog Park
I’m just a small tree
trying to be
healthy and green and alive.
Grief
A poem with a rhyme pattern of AAB, CCD, EEB, FFD.
O the Wind Blows
A mask poem from the point of view of something that cannot speak.
Dog Explorer Uses His Nose
Sniff, o, sniff—what glorious fumes
coats the world beyond these rooms?
If Our House Were on Fire, What Would I Take?
I would take you
just you …
Try a Trimeric Poem!
Walk the perimeter, the trainer says.
You’re the leader, the one to watch.
Eli will look up every now and then
to find you.