A quatrain is either a four-line stanza within a poem or a poem that consists of four lines. Many modern song lyrics are composed of quatrains. A quatrain may contain one or two couplets. The nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” is a quatrain of two couplets:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, 

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

 

Writing poetry during a heat wave due to storms in the area, can be inspiring. Or maybe not! However, some of you did some fine work and got into the “rhythm” of things, so to speak.

Here are some samples I thought I’d share with you. I wrote down the number (#) and not the name of the poet. Respect the work and keep in mind that these might be published one day. Who knows?

Poet #4

Global Warming

The glaciers are melting

the world is slowly dying

we have to start helping

or at east die trying.

 

Poet #5

Voices

Voices in my head, the way they talk,

it fills me with dread, The way they

talk, It ties me to my bed to the

point of not being able to walk, I hate

the way they talk about me, and when those voices

break free, It’s only them who I see.

 

Poet #6

Volleyball

The sport of intelligence in motion,

not always is hitting with power,

but when I get that higher,

hit it with no emotion.

 

Poet #7

Irma Ran Us Over

The heat is unbearable and 

the teachers are cranky

guess that’s what happens

when there is no lighting

 

Poet #8

Inside my head

I don’t know what to write. My

head keeps spinning around. The

thoughts of doing something just goes away.

Then I finally find something it 

just goes away and my day repeats

again and again.

 

Poet #9

Love in heat

Love is perfect and beautiful,

but in the heat it’s impossible. In 

very hot day there will be cold at

night and you will be cozy with

your partner all night.

 

Poet #13

Heat

I hope heat extincts so the world

becomes cold like a soul of someone

that got burnt by someone he

or she cared about a lot.

 

Poet #16

Be or Seem

She looks at herself with a 

tear on her cheeks. The tear

is gone and the pain, too. She

is a free soul, without chains. Be or

seem what else does it give?

in the end, you only have yourself.

 

Poet #18

Death

Through the valley of death

I ride fighting and struggling every

day to survive and just waiting

for that moment where my heart stops

beating, my eyes start closing and I die.

 

Poet #22

Hot

The climate is so hot

that I want to go

to be somewhere else 

that is not school.

 

Poet #23

Poetry

There are words rhyming,

words that I sometimes don’t understand.

It has to be four lines,

and I don’t know nothing to write with my hand.

 

Poet #24

Fancy hand fans

Heat here, heat there,

the power’s out.

I take out my fan to compensate.

Irma was just so foul.

 

Teacher Poet

Cold Feelings Toward Irma

When brushed by a storm named Irma,

and left with a desire to feel ice,

Heat and thirst was the topic.

How was this a surprise?

 

 

Note: Humpty Dumpty source taken from Melissa Donovan’s Adventures in Writing: 101 Creative Writing Exercises.