Poetry Collection

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Poetry Collection

• Mrs. Liggio

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Project details

• You will be creating a poetry collection using
  the following types of poems.

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Five Senses Poem

• Formula
• Line 1 State the topic
• Line 2 Tell what the topic sounds like
• Line 3 Tell what the topic tastes like
• Line 4 Tell what the topic smells like
• Line 5 Tell what the topic looks like
• Line 6 Tell what the topic makes you feel or
  how it feels

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Five Senses Poem

• Example
• Problems
• They sound like children crying. (sound)
• They taste of gasoline. (taste)
• And smell like spinach. (smell)
• They look like monsters. (sight)
• They make you feel unwanted . (touch)

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5 senses poem-another example

• Peace is a rainbow of color.
• It smells like a rose,
• It tastes like sugar.
• Peace sounds like a bluebird
• and feels like a handshake.

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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

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Diamante Poem

• Example
• Love
• Happy, secure
• Dreaming, talking, loving
• Husband, wife, children, home
• Quarreling, loathing, degrading
• Angry, mad
• Hate

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Cinquain Poem

• Formula
• Line 1 one word, subject of poem
• Line 2 two words, description of subject
  (adjectives)
• Line 3 three words, participles (-ing verbs),
  actions
• Line 4 four words, simile describing feelings
  about subject
• Line 5 one word, synonym for subject

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Cinquain Poem

• Example
• Feather
• Purple, unpredictable
• Wiggling, wobbling, plummeting
• Wild as an angry bumblebee
• Plume

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Color Poem

• Color (title)
• 1 What things LOOK the color?
• 2 What things SOUND the color?
• 3 What things SMELL the color?
• 4 How does the color FEEL?
• 5 What makes YOU FEEL the color?
• 6 What things TASTE the color?
• 7 What EXPERIENCES or IDEAS seem that color
• 8 Can you think of the color PLACES?

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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.

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Color poem another example

• Green
• Green is apples, markers, and cool.
• Green is the taste of vegetables.
• Green smells like grass and rain.
• Green makes me feel envious.
• Green is the sound of a lawnmower and a sigh.
• Green is a garden, forest, and a swamp.
• Green is renewal.
• Green is beginning again.
• Green is spring.

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Acrostic

• Formula Each line of an acrostic 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

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Haiku

• Formula
• A haiku has three lines. Typically, the topic
  is nature.
• Line 1 should have five syllables,
• Line 2 should have seven syllables,
• Line 3 should have seven syllables.
• (5-7-5)

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Haiku

• Example
• Spring is in the air Flowers are blooming sky
  highChildren are laughing

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Haiku another example

• Sand scatters the beachWaves crash on the sandy
  shoreBlue water shimmers

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Rhyming poem

• This must be at least 6 lines. You must decide
  which rhyming scheme you are choosing and WRITE
  IT AT THE END OF EACH LINE AND AT THE BOTTOM OF
  THE PAGE. Choices can include the following

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Rhyme poem - example

• Little Miss Muffet ASat on a tuffet AEating
  her curds and whey. BAlong came a spider CAnd
  sat down beside her CAnd frightened Miss
  Muffett away. B
• AABCCB

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Rhyme poem - example

• If life is a story AWhats yours about? BIs
  it filled with glory? AOr is it filled with
  doubt? BUpen the pages you write CIn your lifes
  story AThat life is a fight CBut you are a
  victory. A
• ABABCACA

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Rhyme Poem

• Example
• Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
• Birds are flyin south for winter. A
• Heres the wierd-Bird headin north.B
• Wings a-flappin, beak a-chatterin, C
• Cold head bobbin back n forth.B
• He says, Its not that I like ice D
• Or freezin winds and snowy ground. E
• Its just sometimes its kind of nice D
• To be the only bird in town. E
• ABCBDEDE

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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.

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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.

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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?)

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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.

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Painted Poetry
dancing and playing and hopping
UP AND DOWN THE STREET.
THE HAPPY BOUNCING BALL CAME
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Painted Poetry
FLAPPING, FLOATING, SWEEPING, SOARING, SLEEK AND
SOFT, THE FEATHERY
FLOCK GENTLY BEATS ITS SILVERED WINGS IN SMOOTH
RHYTHM... WITH HARDLY A SOUND.