1. Poetry Collection
Mrs. Liggio

2. Project details
You will be creating a poetry collection using the following types of poems.

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Diamante’ Poem Example Love Happy, secure Dreaming, talking, loving
Husband, wife, children, home
Quarreling, loathing, degrading
Angry, mad
Hate

8. 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

9. Cinquain Poem Example Feather Purple, unpredictable
Wiggling, wobbling, plummeting
Wild as an angry bumblebee
Plume

10. 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?

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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)

15. Haiku
Example:
Spring is in the air Flowers are blooming sky high Children are laughing

16. Haiku – another example
Sand scatters the beach Waves crash on the sandy shore Blue water shimmers

17. 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;

18. Rhyme poem - example
Little Miss Muffet A Sat on a tuffet A Eating her curds and whey. B Along came a spider C And sat down beside her C And frightened Miss Muffett away. B
AABCCB

19. Rhyme poem - example
If life is a story A What’s yours about? B Is it filled with glory? A Or is it filled with doubt? B Upen the pages you write C In your lifes story A That life is a fight C But you are a victory. A
ABABCACA

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

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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?)

24. 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.

25. Painted Poetry dancing and playing and hopping UP AND DOWN THE STREET.
THE HAPPY BOUNCING BALL CAME

26. FLAPPING, FLOATING, SWEEPING, SOARING, SLEEK AND SOFT, THE FEATHERY
Painted Poetry
FLAPPING, FLOATING, SWEEPING, SOARING, SLEEK AND SOFT, THE FEATHERY
FLOCK GENTLY BEATS ITS SILVERED WINGS IN SMOOTH RHYTHM... WITH HARDLY A SOUND.