Madlib Poetry Tutorial

I thought I would help out a little by making a tutorial on how to turn a regular poem into a madlib poem. I took one of my older poems and copied it into here, then with a second copy and a suggested word list, I typed up what it would look like in the edit screen of a madlib. The colours are not needed at all. They are just here to make it easier for you to understand how I picked my word replacements.

~~~~~ Original Poem ~~~~~

Whoosh, through the sky I fly in my one kid spaceship.
"Goodbye," I say to the ground and take off with a loud sound.
With a pop and a whir I take off in a blur.
In my cockpit I spy all the stars in the sky,
as I plot my course to the moon in one afternoon.

Who knows what I will find, but what's in my mind,
when I land on the grey lunar sand.
With dust all around and many rocks that abound,
I will venture out to have a look about,
and see what there will be upon the surface of the moon.

My trip back will be quick, and I'll pull a fast trick,
and swing round the backyard trying not to land hard.
So, when Mom calls me in, I won't miss her sweet kiss.
I'll sit down at the table to tell her my fable
of how I went to the moon and just got back by noon.

~~~~~ Madlibbed Poem and Word List ~~~~~

Whoosh, through the sky I [blank 3] in my one [blank 9] spaceship.
"Goodbye," I [blank 4] to the ground and take off with a loud sound.
With a pop and a whir I take off in a blur.
In my cockpit I spy all the stars in the sky,
as I plot my course to the [blank 1] in one afternoon.

Who knows what I will find, but what's in my mind,
when I land on the grey [blank 5] sand.
With dust all around and many rocks that abound,
I will venture out to have a look about,
and see what there will be upon the surface of the [blank 1].

My trip back will be quick, and I'll pull a [blank 7] trick,
and swing round the backyard trying not to land hard.
So, when Mom calls me in, I won't miss her [blank 8] kiss.
I'll sit down at the table to tell her my fable
of how I went to the [blank 1] and just got back by [blank 2].

Since I want the two nouns to rhyme I will put that as a note in my word blanks for the nouns.

Also, due to the fact that I have no adverbs in my poem, I am not able to use blanks 10, 11 and 12, otherwise I would have words replaced for those.

Word Blank 1: noun (rhyme with other noun)
Word Blank 2: noun (rhyme with other noun)
Word Blank 3: verb
Word Blank 4: verb
Word Blank 5: adjective
Word Blank 6: adjective
Word Blank 7: adjective
Word Blank 8: adjective
Word Blank 9: adjective
Word Blank 10: adverb
Word Blank 11: adverb
Word Blank 12: adverb

~~~~~ Things to Keep in Mind ~~~~~

As I did with blank 1, I was able to use the same blank in multiple locations since the word moon was in multiple places in the original poem. So, even though I have two noun blanks for the player of the madlib to fill in, there are four actual nouns being replaced in the poem.

If you want a specific type of word used in a specific spot, make sure your description in the word blank list is more appropriate to the desired effect. If you want a noun in one place that is fine, but if you want it to be a specific type of noun, like a flower, make the description fit like either of these examples:

noun (flower)

or

flower

The same can be done with other word types like proper nouns, action verbs, past tense verbs, types of birds, and the list goes on.