National Poetry Day

A colleague sent everyone an email saying that last Thursday was national poetry day so I wanted to incorporate writing poems in French and German into my lessons. Here are some ideas that I've picked up over the years:
1. Shape poems. Think of a shape and fill it with your poem or single words. Here is one I created on wordfoto app.

2. Comparisons poems. Using personality adjectives and comme/wie: Gefährlich wie ein Tiger. Using comparatives: Tu es plus jolie qu'une fleur.

3. Using the model of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem 'If'. For this, you need to use the imperfect and the conditional tenses: si j'étais riche, j'achèterais une voiture.

4. Hello and goodbye poems: 

Guten Tag die Sonne, Auf Wiedersehen der Regen.