Designed for use with gifted students in grades 6 through 8, the unit deals with suggestions for developing creativity through writing poetry. It is explained that the focus is on helping students recognize their own creativity before teaching poetry skills. Information on objectives, materials, and presentation methods is presented for the following lessons: you and creativity (limericks); what is poetry; word selection; poetry and movement; concrete poetry; snowball (a device for the creative use of language in which words are set down in progression); and a final workshop and writeup. (CL)