Where can I find poems that focus on idioms and puns?  Or were can I find poems for a middle school student?
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Wikipedia\npun\nA pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Bad puns are often considered to be cheesy.\n\nWalter Redfern (in Puns, Blackwell, London, 1984) succinctly said: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms".\n\nIn order to be able to pun effectively it is necessary that a language must include homonyms which may readily be misrepresented as synonyms. Languages with gender or case structures tend not to facilitate this: the pun is generally an English-language phenomenon, although puns can be constructed in other languages with varying degrees of difficulty. While Chinese puns are said to be easy to construct, languages such as Russian are said to present particular challenges for the would-be punner.\n\n\nEtymology\n\nThe word pun itself is thought to be originally a contraction of the (now archaic) pundigrion. This latter term is thought to have originated from punctilious, which itself derived from the Italian puntiglio (originally meaning "a fine point"), diminutive of punto, "point", from the Latin punctus, past participle of pungere, "to prick." These etymological sources are reported in the Oxford English Dictionary, which nonetheless labels them "conjecture".\n\n\nTypology\n\nPuns can be subdivided into several varieties:\n\nHomographic puns are puns which exploit the difference in meanings of words which look alike (and usually sound alike).\nFor example: "Being in politics is just like playing golf: you are trapped in one bad lie after another." (Pun on the two meanings of lie - "a deliberate untruth"/"the position in which something rests").\nHomographic puns which exploit the difference in meanings of words which look alike but have different pronunciations are technically Heteronymic, though this distinction is disused.\nFor example: "Q: What instrument do fish like to play? A: A bass guitar." (Pun on the identical spelling of /beıs/ (low frequency), and /bæs/ (a kind of fish)).\nHomophonic puns are puns which exploit the difference in meanings of words which sound alike but have different spellings.\nFor example, "I've no idea how worms reproduce but you often find them in /pers/." (Pun on the identical pronunciation of "pears" and "pairs").\nDouble-sound, where words which are similar but not identical are intentionally confused.\nFor example: "What do you call an inverse chicken? Poultry." (Pun on the similar-sounding "poultry" and "poetry" where "poetry" is derived from an alternative reading of "inverse" as two words, "in verse," alluding to poetry).\nHomographic puns are sometimes compared to the stylistic device antanaclasis; homophonic puns, to polyptoton; but they are not identical.\n\nThe compound pun is one in which multiple puns are colocated for additional and amplified effect. Examples of this are the following:\n\nThree brothers asked their mother to think of a name for their cattle-ranch. She suggested Focus Ranch, which rather puzzled them until she explained that "'Focus' means where the sun's rays meet (sons raise meat)."\nA sign in a golf-cart shop reads "When drinking, don't drive. Don't even putt." (The puns are on "driving" and "putting" a golf ball, vs. "driving" a car or "putting" around in a golf cart.)\nThe last exchange of a knock knock joke runs: Q: "Eskimo Christian Italian who?" A: "Eskimo Christian Italian no lies." (The pun, involving an indeterminate number of sub-puns, is on the phrase &q
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poetry.com is a good site when you go look for a poem called my three sons
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I'm guessing that you are in High School.  My advice is NOT to go get someone else's opinion on a poem.  What does the poem make YOU think about?  What do the images mean to YOU?  How do you feel after reading the poem?  That is what your teacher is looking for--- NOT for your on-line web-searching skills.  There is a good book called Understanding Poetry but Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren that can help you think for yourself, though.
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http://www.poetrypoetry.com/Workshops/00-04/ParallelPoetry.html
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http://www.lyrics.com//
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I found the following website on google.com.  There are links to some of his poems in the box on the right side of the screen.
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funonthenet.com is a good website for quotes,poems etc
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go to yahoo- and type in Search engine- popular children poems! adn looko for a long one.
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http://www.lovepoemsandquotes.com/\nhttp://www.americanpoems.com/\nhttp://www.poems.com/\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/113/\n\nhope this works for you
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http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.php\n\nhttp://www.gigglepoetry.com/\n\nhttp://www.gigglepotz.com/kidspoetry.htm\n\nhttp://42explore.com/poetry.htm\n\n\n\nHope this helps! :o)
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Go to Poetry.com and there's a contest you can enter there :)
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Hey fellow middle school English teacher! \n\nMost of what I read to my kids are novels, but occasionally I'll pick something fun out of the "Random Book of Humor." \n\nRichard Peck's books are always fun to read aloud. "The Teacher's Funeral" is fun. \n\nAny of the books by Gordon Korman are absolutely hilarious. He honestly should do stand up comedy!\nhttp://gordonkorman.com/\n\nTry those.......if you want more, I'll send more titles when I get to school tomorrow. Let me know. :)
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here you go. this will take you right to a lot of poems about beaches\n\nhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poems/beach/
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Do a google search on poets.  Is there a specific one you're looking for?\n\nEdgar Allan Poe\n\nRobert Frost\n\nTry this site:\n\nhttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm
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http://www.rhymezone.com/  Not really but this site is still cool.
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http://www.eliteskills.com/ -poetry mostly\nhttp://www.lit.org/\nhttp://www.critters.org/ -manuscript submit
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What kind of stories u like or poems?>