1. Poetry types and styles

2. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Carol Ann Duffy
Poets on poetry

3. Haiku Profusion of pink - 5 Purple, yellow, vivid blue - 7
Riot of color - 5
Falling flying leaves
Cling fleetingly to bare limbs
Drop silently down
Icicle diamonds
Glistening, iridescent
In the frigid air
Kim Carlton
Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. It is about nature or the natural world.
Pattern:
A three line poem whose lines follow the pattern of 5 – 7 – 5 syllables
Haiku

4. A concrete poem is a poem that is written about the shape of the object that the poem is about. It is visual poetry that combines pictures and words.
Some concrete poems are written around the shape instead of inside the shape.
Concrete Poem

5. Diamante

6. Acrostic Selfless and sweet Always glad to see me Waits patiently
An acrostic poem uses a name or names. The name is written in a vertical line and words starting with the letters in the name are used to describe the person or object.
Selfless and sweet
Always glad to see me
Waits patiently
Young at heart
Eternal best friend
Reliable
Acrostic

7. Couplet In the middle of the night I received quite a fright
A couplet is a two line rhyming poem – the ending words rhyme
In the middle of the night
I received quite a fright
A movement on the bed
Something walking on my head
In a moment of panic
My brain was in havoc
Then I saw my cat
Darn cat, what a silly brat!
Couplet

8. cinquain

9. Works Cited
Wiki How – How to Write a Concrete Poem
Mrs. Williams – Dr. Williams’ mom created the charts for the diamond and cinquain poems and for many of the others that you will explore in this project