Channel Your Inner Poet

With a nose like shoe leather

I tromp through the heather

Companioned by brindle, sable, and fawn.

Were it not for the call,

A warm bed in the hall,
We'd run in the night until dawn.

Get out your magnetic poetry, kids!  Diego the dog knows what April is -- it's National Poetry Month!

In the library, check out the poets' corner, where you can find everyone from Robert Frost to Janet Wong, waxing poetic on many of your favorite topics:

               FRIENDSHIP                                                      popcorn     

            Halley's Comet                              Baseball

Mud season                        Hippopotomi               love                      Lightning       

         

In addition to all of those, check out these sites to help you create your own poetry.

• Piclits allows you to embellish an image with words -- either words supplied from a list, or ones that come from you!
• Magnetic Poetry Online gives several different word groupings.  Choose from "Artist," "Poet," "Story Maker," and many more to create and save your own poems.
• Shakespeare Poetry Machine takes up to 99 words from the Bard's own works, scrambles them, and waits for you to create some immortal poetry from them.