More firework poems to browse

Firework poetry fest!  I've just added yet more firework poems to my kids' page here, for enjoyment by children and families, and perhaps use by teachers. Most are written to accompany my workshops for schools, and are intentionally simple and accessible, offering launchpads from which young poets can take off with creations of their own.


Writing your own firework poems?  If writing your own, or helping others to, remember that firework poems may take off in any direction you like! Up the page, diagonally across, through a picture, into a recipe (for Bonfire Night?), into a particular poetic format - cinquain, haiku, limerick...? It could be turned into questions, spun into a wish, swung into a song, or swivelled upside down for a look at life below, in which case, how about setting the scene in rhyming couplets? Funny ones?  After all, it's probably chaos down there, what with everybody feeling their way in the dark, slipping and sliding on the muddy grass, colliding with old friends without even recognising them in all their hats and scarves and mufflers and flickering torch-light. There'll be all the watchings and waitings, the 'Oh dears!' and  'Hoorahs!'; the hot-dog munching and toffee-apple dropping and goodness knows what all down below there!  So get writing!


Copyright:  All poems on this site are by me and are therefore my copyright, so if anyone would like to use any of them for public or commercial use, please contact me first - thanks!  Kate Williams