A great poetry site for children. See poems on a range of topics and most poems have an audio of the poet reading their poems.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
A great interactive acrostic poem maker. It explains what acrostic poems are when gives helpful hints as children write their own.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
This is a great site for encouraging writers to create stories, poems and songs collaboratively. The site limits how much a user can write and can invite friends or the public to continue and edit a piece of writing.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
"A superb creative writing site to stimulate ideas for opinion pieces, news articles, stories or poems. There is a teachers area with whole class whiteboard resources, and a pupil area where your pupils can write their pieces and print."
Showcasing twelve terrific poetry projects from our incredibly creative community of educators. You'll find projects for first graders and high schoolers, and everything from sensory poems to color explorations to poems about polliwogs. (We also think any of these would be just as fun for adults to try - a little creative expression is always good for the soul!)"
Memorizing a poem, in a strange sort of way, gives that poem access to you more than you're giving yourself access to it.
A poem can be a sort of anchor in the drift of the world. Whether it serves as a bit of wisdom that helps keep you centered, or, in my case, as a feeling, a moment of beauty and power that helps keep my other feelings in perspective.
""Make your heart the strongest muscle that you've got."
Those words are part of rapper IN-Q's "Addiction Poem," which narrates the video above. The powerful three-minute clip was posted to YouTube by Burning Tree, a long-term treatment program for substance abuse.
The video contains a universal message of hope -- a reminder that we're not alone and that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel."