Transcript Poetry Collection

Poetry Collection
Mrs. Bohs
Five Senses Poem
Formula
Line 1:
Line 2:
Line 3:
Line 4:
Line 5:
Line 6:
Tell what color the abstraction is
Tell what the abstraction sounds like
Tell what the abstraction tastes like
Tell what the abstraction smells like
Tell what the abstraction looks like
Tell what the abstraction makes you feel
Five Senses Poem
Example:
Problems are black.
They sound like children crying.
They taste of castor oil.
And smell like spinach.
They look like monsters.
They make you feel unwanted.
Diamante’ Poem
Formula
Line 1: one word, subject of poem
Line 2: two words, adjectives describing subject
Line 3: three words, participles (-ing verbs)
Line 4: four words related to subject
(For lines 5-7, describe opposite/antonym of subject)
Line 5: three words, participles (-ing verbs)
Line 6: two words, adjectives describing opposite of subject
Line 7: one word, opposite/antonym of subject in Line 1
Diamante’ Poem
Example
Love
Happy, secure
Dreaming, talking, loving
Husband, wife, children, home
Quarreling, loathing, degrading
Angry, mad
Hate
Cinquain Poem
Formula
Line 1:
Line 2:
Line 3:
Line 4:
Line 5:
one word, subject of poem
two words, description of subject (adjectives)
three words, participles (-ing verbs), actions
four words, simile describing feelings about subject
one word, synonym for subject
Cinquain Poem
Example
Feather
Purple, unpredictable
Wiggling, wobbling, plummeting
Wild as an angry bumblebee
Plume
Color Poem
Color (title)
Color is describe looks, describe looks,
and feels like describe feel.
Color is the taste of describe taste.
Describe smell and describe smell smell color.
Describe how color makes you feel makes me feel color.
Color is the sound of describe sound and describe sound.
Color is place that reminds you of color, place that reminds you of color,
and place that reminds you of color.
Experience that makes you feel this color is color.
Experience that makes you feel this color is also color.
Color is anything you want for this line.
Color Poem
Example
Turquoise
Turquoise is magic, manatees, and silly putty.
Turquoise is the taste of sherbert.
Juicy pears and the desert smell turquoise.
A cleared mind makes me feel turquoise.
Turquoise sounds of splashing paint and tubas.
Turquoise is Yashiro, a calm pool of water, and a coral reef.
Painting is turquoise.
Making new friends is turquoise.
Turquoise is having siblings.
Anagram
Formula: Each line of an anagram begins with a letter
of the subject and should describe the subject.
Example:
Apple picking
Umbrella bent by the wind
Toasting marshmallows over an open fire
Unequaled beauty
Many colored leaves
North winds chill me to the bone
Build-A-Poem
Formula
Line 1: one word, topic
Line 2: two words, colors
Line 3: three words, adjectives
Line 4: four words, participles (-ing verbs)
Line 5: five words, a sentence about your feelings
or experiences
Build-A-Poem
Example:
Fall
yellow, orange
shiny, wet, windy
raining, changing, playing, falling
The days grow too short.
Haiku
Formula:
A haiku has three lines. Typically, the
topic is nature. Line 1 should have five
syllables, line 2 should have seven syllables,
and line 3 should have seven syllables. (5-75)
Haiku
Example:
Most cannot see it.
It’s intertwined and complex.
A beauty in dew.
8-line Rhyme Poem
Line 1________________________
Line 2________________________
Line 3________________________
Line 4________________________
Line 5________________________
Line 6________________________
Line 7________________________
Line 8________________________
Lines 2 & 4 should have end rhyme.
Lines 6 & 8 should have end rhyme.
8-line Rhyme Poem
Example:
Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
Birds are flyin’ south for winter.
Here’s the wierd-Bird headin’ north.
Wings a-flappin’, beak a-chatterin’,
Cold head bobbin’ back ‘n’ forth.
He says, “It’s not that I like ice
Or freezin’ winds and snowy ground.
It’s just sometimes it’s kind of nice
To be the only bird in town.
Limericks
Formula:
A limerick is a 5-line poem meant to be
humorous. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a
with lines 1, 2, and 5 containing 3 beats and
rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats
and rhyming.
Limericks
Example:
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “Let us flee.”
“Let us fly,” said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Limericks
Quick Practice:
There once was a pauper named Meg
Who accidentally broke her______.
She slipped on the _____.
Not once, but thrice
Take no pity on her, I _______.
(Can you guess which words go in the blanks?)
Painted Poetry
Painted writing is a way of placing words
on paper to give a visual effect to match the
feeling of the writing. The shape expresses
what the writing is about. Use strong, colorful
language to describe the topic of the poem.
Remember to think about your five senses.
Painted Poetry
Painted Poetry