Here are the rules for All of the types of poetry we will be writing this year.
Apology Poem: A poem in which you sort of say you are sorry, but not really.
What did you do that you should apologize for? Why should you have not doe it? Why did you do it anyway?
This is to say
I am sorry for
Drinking the last ice old Pepsi Cola
That I saw you hide behind the soy milk
But I was just so thirsty and I know
You would have done it to me
Cinquain:
a form consisting of five
lines. Each has a required number of syllables, and a specific topic.
Line 1:Title (noun)- 2 syllables
Line 2: Description- 4 syllables
Line 3: Action- 6 syllables
Line 4: Feeling (phrase)- 8 syllables
Line 5: Title (synonym for the title)- 2 syllables
Flowers
Pretty, fragrant
Waiting, watching, weeding
Enjoying all the while they grow
Gardens
Couplets: two-line
poems with a fun and simple rhyming pattern. Each line has the same meter and
their endings rhyme with one another. Couplets are often humorous. My English teacher wants me to use imagination
So I go to math class and let my mind go on vacation!
Diamante poems:
diamond-shaped poems of seven lines that are written using parts of speech. The
Diamante is a form similar to the Cinquain.
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives
Line 3: Three 'ing' words
Line 4: Four words about the subject
Line 5: Three 'ing words
Line 6: Two adjectives
Line 7: Synonym for the subject
Home
Safe, caring
Loving, sharing, talking
Friendship, food, car, travels
Living, loving, enjoying
Joyous, adventurous
Family
Haiku:
an ancient Japanese form with no rhyme. Haiku often deal with nature. This type
of poetry has three lines with a fixed number of syllables:
Line 1= 5 syllables
Line 2= 7 syllables
Line 3= 5 syllables
The dying plant bends
And drips its dew to the ground
It falls like a tear
I am From Poem
I am from…
1) Items found around your home: bobby pins or stacks of newspapers, grandma’s teeth, discount coupons, (describe things in your home that make it yours. Use adjectives)
2) I am from Place of birth and family ancestry Brooklyn , NY, Grenada, and Puerto Rico
3) I am from Items found in your yard: broken rakes, dog bones, hoses coiled like green snakes
4) I am from Items found in your neighborhood; specific things that define your neighborhood (shops, stores, churches, schools, parks) Alfredo’s, Taco Bell, St Brigit’s
5) I am from Names of relatives, especially ones that link you to the past (Uncle Ed, Aunt Eva, The Christenson Branch)
6) I am from Sayings, “If I’ve told you once…,” “Hey there, ho there!” (phrases or lines that you hear everyday repeatedly, family lines or sayings, phrases )
7) I am from a family story about a specific person and detail (the story that is told every holiday about someone in the family)
8) I am from Names of foods and dishes that recall family gatherings: (fried chicken, tamales, black-eyed peas, Grandma’s lasagna, rice and beans, curried goat)
9) I am from Names of places where you keep your memories: Diaries, boxes, underwear drawers, inside the family bible, a cedar chest
10) I am from Product names( Name brands) and descriptions. Nike sneakers, Colgate toothpaste, Bounty Towels
11) Your own thing
Where I'm From
I am from clutter, books galore
stacks of newspapers and Plaid Stamp books
I am from Brooklyn, NY, Roanoke, Virginia and West Africa
I am from grassless lawns,
rusty rakes, and broken garage doors
I am from Prospect Park, Brooklyn Museum,
Coney Island, Delancy Street and projects
I am from Grandma Cornelia,
Aunt Violet, Aunt Jackie and the Macklins
I am from “ Girl grow up”, “ I told you so”
“ Wait ‘til your father comes home”,
and “Close your mouth”
I am from Karen jumping off
the garage roof onto an old mattress
I am from crispy fried chicken on a Sunday afternoon,
hot steamy pork chops in gravy, greasy collard greens
crunchy fried fish, steamy creamy
macaroni and cheese and chicken and dumplings
I ma from boxes in the basement ,
filled junk drawers and cluttered hard drives
I am from ice cold Pepsi Cola, soft and squishy Wonder Bread
, Dutch Cleanser, and the Apple 2 plus
Limericks: whimsical poems with five lines. Lines one, two, and five rhyme with each other and lines three and four rhyme with each other. Rhyme pattern: AABBA
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.
Narrative poems: tell stories and are usually long. Epics and ballads are narrative poems.
There once was a man named Bob
Who was out looking for a great job
He really needed money to feed pets
His cat's name was Tiger
His dog's name was Ted.
His pets were hungry most of the day
The animals were hungry - they couldn't play
Bob had been laid off for a month or two
There was plenty of work that Bob wouldn't do.
Bob was really hungry.
His stomach was an empty tank
He decided to go rob a local bank.
He walked through the door and looked
around
He pointed his gun and yelled "Get down"
Bob took the money and headed for the door.
If only he had seen the officer in the store.
The policeman came out with a shout
Bob thought for a second and then pulled his gun out
One shot, two shots and with a deafening sound
Poor old Bob's body hit the ground.
With his last breath
He thought back to his pets
He sure hoped Tiger and Ted
Would have a great life after he was dead!
Ode
An ode is a poem that tells in an original way what is good or unique about a subject and why the writer likes it so much. Select a subject to write about: choose a person, place, or thing.
Write phrases describing:
o What your subject is like
o How your subject makes you feel
o Why you feel this way
o Explain why your subject is important to you
o Join some of your phrases into lines for your ode.
o Remember they don't have to rhyme!
Revise your lines following these steps:
o Take away any lines that are too similar.
o Add details to make the reader see, feel, touch, smell your subject
o Pick a good opening line or sentence.
o Order the remaining lines into their best sequence.
o Select a good closing line that clearly expresses your feelings about the subject.
o Rewrite your ode in a final draft and maybe even add an illustration.
Ode to My Locker
Beautiful Locker,
Beautiful Locker,
Oh, how you help my back.
When my bags get heavy
You
Are always standing there!
Standing tall and proud
By all of your twins.
Oh, I wonder how your muscles
Get so big.
You help me
Through heavy days.
When I am weak and need a drink,
It's always there on that top shelf.
You hold all my pictures of Usher
So
That I can see my dream to be.
But locker, oh locker
Listen to me!
No one can make a better couple
Than you and me.
Quatrains: rhyming poems of four lines. Poets use letters to express the rhyme pattern or scheme. The four types of quatrain rhyme are: AABB,(shown at right) ABAB, ABBA, and ABCB.
Picnic planning in July
Traveling up the mountains so high!
What an adventure for me
Because I prefer mountains to sea!
Shape Poems (concrete poems): poem that form a visible picture on the page. The shape usually reflects the subject of the poem.
Trees blossoming in the spring
Clouds above give rain
Fruit will come soon
Nature is at work
while
trees
stand
still
Tanka:
another Japanese form that depends on the number of lines and syllables instead
of rhyme:
Line 1= 5 syllables
Line 2= 7 syllables
Line 3= 5 syllables
Line 4= 7 syllables
Line 5= 7 syllables
I have my own place
Where I can go for hours
I go there to write
It is not difficult to find
Search within your heart and mind.
