Hello there. Are you ready for today's big question? Why do people write poems? I went to the beach yesterday. I love the beach. I love to be outside in the warm sun. I usually swim in the sea and I always eat ice cream. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to write a poem about it. Do you want to see it? Here it is. I went to the beach on a hot day. The sand was warm, but the water was cold. My ice cream was melting, so it was really hard to hold. Do you like it? I love writing poems. Poems are fun to read and fun to write. Poets use their imagination to describe the things they see and feel. It's fun to use your imagination. Hmm, maybe I can write my poem another way. Let's try an Acrostic poem. An Acrostic poem uses the letters of a word to describe that word. My topic is the beach, but I want a new word. How about coast? Okay. Sea. Maybe cold? The sea is cold. Oh. How about ocean? A. That's a difficult one. Let's try ancient. The beach is very, very old. S. That's easy. Sand. And T. Let's say tides. The ocean moves in tides. There's our poem. Let's try a sincane with the word C. We start with the topic word. C. We need two adjectives that describe it. Let's say calm and quiet. Then we need three action words. Rolling, rippling, twinkling. And a short sentence about the topic. The waves dance along the shore. And finally, a word similar to the topic word. Ocean. I write poems for lots of different reasons. I like to describe things and I like to use my imagination. But most of all, I like writing poems about things that are important to me. Do you like writing poems? Why not try one now?