Creative Reflections: Poetry Forms Unleashed

1. FORMS OF POETRY Expressing one’s thoughts in written form using such things as rhythm, repetition, similes, metaphors, etc.

2. I AM POEM • I am (2 special characteristics you have • I wonder (something you are curious about) • I hear (an imaginary sound) • I see (an imaginary sight) • I want (an actual desire) • I am (the first line repeated)

3. Stanza 2 • I pretend (you actually pretend) • I feel (a feeling about something imaginary) • I touch (an imaginary touch) • I worry (something that really bothers you) • I cry (something that make you sad) • I am (the first line)

4. Stanza 3 • I say (something you believe in) • I dream (something you actually dream about) • I try (something you really make an effort about) • I hope (something you actually hope for) • I understand (something you know is true) • I am (the first line repeated

5. I Am Catherine • I AM Catherine • I am my future and my past • I wonder if ghosts and angels tell tales • I hear songs in wind chimes • I see wishes in eyes • I want there to be answers • I am my future and my past

6. I pretend I am selfless • I feel nothing • I touch dreams • I worry there are places where no one can feel • I cry for little girls who are sent there • I am my future and my past

7. I understand that self destruction is a revolt against falseness • I say that healing rescues integrity • I dream of shamans and healers • I try to understand the wishes in my eyes • I hope to know the me that they see • I am my future and my past

8. BIO POEM • I, (your first name) • 4 adjectives that describe you…… • Son/daughter of…… • Lover of (3 things, people, ideas)….. • Who feels (up to 3 items)…… • Who needs (up to 3 items)…… • Who fears (up to 3 items)…… • Who would like to see (up to 3 people, ideas or places……. • Am a resident of (city, state)…… • Welcome you to my poem…..

9. Bio Poem Example • I, Bob • Athletic, tall, funny, and happy • Son of Mom • Lover of animals, sports, and food • Who feels nervous • Who needs money, another vacation, and less homework • Who fears spiders, heights, and aliens • Who would like to see Pedro Martinez, Drew Bledsoe and Jim Carey • Am a resident of Fall River, Massachusetts • Welcome you to my poem

10. COLOR POEMS List 1: What things LOOK green? Grass, apples, markers List 2:What things SOUND green? Lawnmower, music, sigh List 3: What things SMELL green? Grass, rain, crayons List 4: How does green FEEL? Warm, cool, soft, velvety List 5: What makes you FEEL green? Envy, illness, spring List 6: What things TASTE green? Candy, vegetables, pesto List 7: What EXPERIENCES or IDEAS seem green? Renewal, beginning, envy List 8: Can you think of green PLACES? Garden, forest, swamp

11. GREEN • Green is an apple or a juicy cucumber • Green is the taste of fresh vegetables • Green smells like new grass and rain. • Green makes me feel very envious. • Green is the sound of a loud lawnmower and a soft sigh. • Green is a garden, forest, and a swamp. • Green is renewal. • Green is beginning again. • Green is a croaking frog.

12. ASSIGNMENT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: • 1 “Bio” poem • 3 “Color” poems/AG 4 “Color” poems

13. CINQUAIN • This type of poetry was developed by the Imagest poet Adelaide Crapsey. • She was born in 1914 and died when she was only 36 years old. • She wrote one and only one book of poetry. • Crapsey’s cinquain had 5 lines and a 2-4-6-8-2 syllable count.

14. EXAMPLE OF A CINQUAIN CHERRY BLOSSOMS Cherry blossoms float on the afternoon breezes. Petals fluttering down like snow in spring.

15. Example #2 Long Shadows Maples in the morning sunlight cast long shadows upon the snow like a roadmap of limbs.

16. DIAMANTE • The French word diamante means diamond. • A DIAMANTE is a seven-line poem that gradually changes from one idea to a direct opposite idea. • When it is completed, its total appearance is diamond shaped. • It is a 7 line contrast poem.

17. PATTERN FOR DIAMANTE • Line 1=Noun/ 1st Subject • Line 2=Adjective, Adjective/Describing the 1 st subject • Line 3=(3) –ing words describing the first noun • Line 4=Noun, Noun/Describing the 1st subject Noun, Noun/relating to the 2nd subject/antonym • Line 5=(3 –ing words describing the antonym • Line 6=Adjective, Adjective/Describing the antonym • Line 7=Noun/antonym

18. Example of a Diamante Boy Sweaty, wild Running, shooting, jumping Trucks, dirt, makeup, dolls Spinning, smiling, talking proper, giggly Girl

19. BLOTZ POETRY • This poem uses alliteration (the repetition of an initial sound. • As you compose your poem, you create an imaginary creature.

20. Format for the Blotz Poem • Line 1: Name your creature. Begin with, “This is a …..” • Line 2 Tell where it lives (words begin with the same letter as the creature’s name. • Line 3 Tell what your creature eats. • Line 4 Tell what your creature likes. • Line 5 Tell something about your creature. • Line 6 Tell what your creature did to you.

21. Example of a Blotz Poem“Marmaloop” This is a Marmaloop. Marmaloops live in murky, muddy marshes in Madagascar. Marmaloops eat mangos, meunster cheese, marmalade, and milkshakes. Marmaloops make messes, mumble meaningless facts, and miff mean mammals. Marmaloops like M&Ms, monster mega Mondays, monsoons in Mongolia, and meerkats . This Marmaloop mentioned that he might marry me.

22. SENSE POEMS • Sense poems, of course, appeal to the five senses. • The senses of touch, sight, hearing, tasting and smelling.

23. Format for Sense Poem • 1. Think of a place that is special. • 2. Form an image in your mind of this place. • 3. Think about all the beauty that surrounds the place. • 4. Then complete the following statements.

24. Part 1 of the Sense Poem • I see_________________ I see the sage-covered land • I smell________________ I smell the freshness of the morning • I hear________________ I hear the scream of the hawk • I feel_________________ I feel the caress of a breeze • I taste________________ I taste the dew on the wind • I think________________ I think a new day is born

25. Part 2 of the Sense Poem • After you have written out the sentences, remove the pronouns,verbs, and articles.

26. Part 3 of Sense Poem “Desert” sage-covered land freshness of morning scream of the hawk caress of a breeze dew of the wind new day born

27. LIMERICK • A limerick is a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem which consists of 5 lines and originated in Limerick, Ireland. • It has a rhyme scheme of a-a-b-b-a and a syllable structure of 9-9-6-6-9

28. Limerick Example “Man from Aruba” There once was a man from Aruba. Whose favorite hobby was scuba. Every day he would wish, He could spear a big fish. But settled instead for canned tuna.

29. EPITAPH • An epitaph is a brief poem written to praise a deceased person. • It usually rhymes.

30. EPITAPH EXAMPLE What happened to me was not good, Hit by a car, bounced off the hood. Would get up, if only I could. Now here I lay, where once I stood.

31. QUATRAIN • A QUATRAIN is a poem consisting of 4 lines of verse with a specific rhyming scheme. • Some rhyming schemes are: • abab • abba • aabb

32. QUATRAIN EXAMPLE • Lord of Deceit • Trapped within a haze of fear, • The Lord of Lies does appear. • Clouded by so much that’s wrong, • Truth gets twisted by his song. • Turning love and joy to pain, • Hidden by the falling rain, • When hate and fear begin to form, • Tragedy becomes the norm.

33. QUATRAIN“The Green Bird” • On top of a mountain sits a green bird. • The songs that it sings is the best ever heard. • When it open its mouth all the animals cheer, • For this song is a sound that all want to hear.

34. QUATRAIN EXAMPLE CONT.“Hurtful Lies” • Hurtful lies tear lives apart • And cause more harm to a heart. • Once the pain and hate begin, • Nothing is the same again. • Once the lie has been revealed, • Secrets are no more concealed. • Then the healing can undo • What he has done unto you.

35. CONCRETE POEM • A concrete poem is one in which the words make a shape. • The concrete poem is as much about the words as the look and the shape of the poem itself…thus it is sometimes called a SHAPE POEM.

36. Example of Shape Poem I am a tree who reaches out to you with love I’ll share. I am here to embrace, my branches of tenderness. I am a tree which extends, water me in tender care as I stand by your side extending my heart always.