INSIDE - a poetry workshop idea

I recently read two poems that inspired me, 'A Helping Hand' by Miroslav Holub, and 'Russian Doll' by Rachel Rooney. I was inspired to write the following:

Inside

Inside the child

a heart is beating

Inside the heart

a poem is sleeping

inside the poem

a word is whizzing

Inside the word

a secret is fizzing

Inside the secret

a whisper is hushing

Inside the whisper

a river is rushing

Inside the river

a bubble’s expanding

Inside the bubble

a spaceship is landing

Inside the spaceship

a child is dreaming

Inside the child

a heart is beating

With all of these poems in mind, students can have a go at writing their own poems, using the following format:

Inside..... is .......

Inside..... is....... 

Here are some more examples:

Inside the acorn

an oak tree flexes its muscles

Inside the ball

a goal longs to be scored

Inside the cub

roar the fangs of a lion

Inside the cat

Lurk nine secret lives... 

poem based on recent experience

BROWN ENVELOPE

Is it malignant

or is it benign?

Is it a payment

or is it a fine?

What does it want?

What will it say?

What kind of bill

will it ask you to pay?

Is it a cheque

or a form to fill in?

Is it important

or fit for the bin?

Is it a statement

that says you're in debt?

Is it a promise

or is it a threat?

Is it the taxman

dispatching a note?

Is it the BNP

chasing your vote?

Is it results

from your cardiogram?

Is it momentous

or simply some spam?

Is it assurance

of legal indemnity?

Is it light hearted

or sent with solemnity?

Is it for speeding

or driving though red?

Is it your neighbour’s

or partner’s instead?

Is it a questionnaire

sent from Beirut?

Is it the council

engaged in dispute?

Is it a policeman

engaged in pursuit?

(Perhaps it’s that body-bag

stuffed in your boot...)

Yes pants will get soiled

and bricks will get shat

when you see a BROWN ENVELOPE

there on the mat.