CHOOSING A TOPIC TO CREATE A POEM.

The “topic” is the thing you write your poem about. Choosing a topic, means deciding what you are going to write about. Selecting a topic can be the easiest or the hardest part of writing a funny poem. If you let yourself, you can spend hours or even days trying to come up with just the right idea for your funny poem. However, if every time you start to get an idea, you tell yourself it’s not a good idea, or not funny enough, or that you should be able to come up with a better idea, you will never start writing.

Instead, if you force yourself, each time you sit down to write, to use the first idea that comes to mind, you will end up writing a lot more poetry, much of which will be better than you ever expected.

Also, if every time you come up with an idea for a poem, you write it down without worrying about whether it is a good idea or a bad idea, you will soon find you have more ideas than you know what to do with, and many of them will make excellent poems.

Look Around You

But what if nothing comes to mind? Can you just pick an idea out of the air? Of course! Look around you. What do you see? If you are at home, you could write a funny poem about:

• The toaster
• The bathtub
• Your mom
• Your pet
• Your sister’s or brother’s bedroom
• Dinner
• And so on…

If you are outside, you could write a funny poem about:

• A car
• Trees
• A dog
• Skateboarding
• Baseball
• And so on

If you are at school, you could write a funny poem about:

• Your teacher
• Homework
• Your messy desk or locker
• Cafeteria lunch
• Recess
• The principal
• Excuses for missing school
• And so on