Poetry Forms, Tips, and Techniques
Poetry has been around for thousands of years and there are more than fifty types of poetry. Here, I focus on a collection of the more common forms. Just click on a poem type below for instructions and examples. Also, if you scroll down to the bottom you’ll find poetry tips, techniques and notes on sharing your (and my) poetry.
- Acrostic poems
- Alphabet poetry
- Book Spine Poetry
- Cinquain poem
- Concrete (shape) poems
- Digital Blackout poetry
- Found poems
- Free Verse
- Golden Shovel
- Haiku
- How-to poem
- List poem
- Limerick
- Mask poem
- Ode
- Pareiku
- Quatrain
- Rhyme: Three times the fun
- Senryu
- Sixku
- Skinny Poem
- Tanka
- Triversen (aka Verset)
