March is Poetry

March's writing theme is poetry. We started out with "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Longfellow, doing mad libs and learning about meter and alliteration. Then, we went into parodies of songs and wrote "I am" poems. I'm kind of losing steam, though. I remember poetry being kind of dull in school, only interesting when I wrote it myself, not from an assignment. If your teachers made poetry interesting, what did they do? What made writing poetry come alive to you?