Beautiful Brilliant Ideas
POEM FORM
Each verse has four lines. Within each verse, the four end words rhyme with one another. The rhyming words are printed in bold type to emphasize them. The second verse of each poem can be used as a refrain. It is indented for easy identification. The simple vocabulary, set in the present tense, amplifies a cheerful tone.
POETRY
Poetry is among the oldest forms of accelerated learning. Vivid imagery, cadence and rhyme can all be used to enhance the learning process. Poetic imagery, at its best, creates heartfelt impressions that result in vivid memory imprints for the memory to recall. Cadence, like music, communicates deep emotions nonverbally. Rhyme can be used to associate an unknown piece of information with a familiar piece of information. The new information can then be recalled by its rhyming association with the familiar information. Poetry thus accelerates the learning process by using imagery, cadence and rhyme to vividly portray new information.
When reading a poem, students may find it to their advantage to mark the ideas they like. These ideas can then act as seeds for their own creative work. This also gives the students a chance to exercise their minds on ideas that interest them, which is a key to accelerated learning.
When students write their own poetry, they can start with one of the ideas they like and select some rhyming words that set the tone of the idea. They can then write some descriptive words to go with each rhyming word that tell the story of the idea. This gives the students the freedom to explore the idea with the insight of poetical imagination. Like all works of creative imagination, a poem grows inspiration upon inspiration.
It may take a day or it may take years for a poem to flower, for creativity dances to its own heartbeat.