There's nothing like reading poetry to inspire writing more of it, I find. There are some great children's anthologies of quality adult poetry out there. As a child, I was inspired by one called Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle.

I;m excited these days because I have noted a big resurgence in DD9's creativity, something that hasn't been seen much for months. I wonder if it's because schoolwork demands have really slacked off. In the past couple of weeks, she has written a short (funny) play, written pop song lyrics that were so convincingly, professionally love-song poppy that I was sure she was copying them down off her MP3 player (no), invented a new board game, invented a new, complicated origami (and it's cool!) and taught it to us all, and done some beautiful art. Wow!