1. Poetry Collection
Ms. Luchik

2. I Am I am (two special characteristics)
I am (two special characteristics)
• I wonder (something you are actually curious about)
I hear (an imaginary sound)
I see (an imaginary sight)
I want (an actual desire)
I am (the first line of the poem restated)
I pretend (something you pretend to do)
I feel (a feeling about something imaginary)
I touch (an imaginary touch)
I worry (something that really bothers you)
I cry (something that makes you very sad)
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)
I understand (something you know is true)
I say (something you believe in)
I dream (something you actually dream about)
I try (something you make an effort to do)
I hope (something you actually hope for)

3. Five Senses Poem Formula Line 1: Tell what color the abstraction is
Line 2: Tell what the abstraction sounds like
Line 3: Tell what the abstraction tastes like
Line 4: Tell what the abstraction smells like
Line 5: Tell what the abstraction looks like
Line 6: Tell what the abstraction makes you feel

4. Five Senses Poem Example: Problems are black.
They sound like children crying.
They taste of castor oil.
And smell like spinach.
They look like monsters.
They make you feel unwanted.

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. Color Poem Color (title) Color is describe looks, describe looks,
and feels like describe feel.
Color is the taste of describe taste.
Describe smell and describe smell smell color.
Describe how color makes you feel makes me feel color.
Color is the sound of describe sound and describe sound.
Color is place that reminds you of color, place that reminds you of color,
and place that reminds you of color.
Experience that makes you feel this color is color.
Experience that makes you feel this color is also color.
Color is anything you want for this line.

10. 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.

11. Anagram
Formula: Each line of an anagram 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

12. Build-A-Poem Formula Line 1: one word, topic Line 2: two words, colors
Line 3: three words, adjectives
Line 4: four words, participles (-ing verbs)
Line 5: five words, a sentence about your feelings or experiences

13. Build-A-Poem Example: Fall yellow, orange shiny, wet, windy
raining, changing, playing, falling
The days grow too short.

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, and line 3 should have five syllables. (5-7-5)

15. Haiku Example: Most cannot see it. It’s intertwined and complex.
A beauty in dew.

16. 8-line Rhyme Poem Line 1________________________
Lines 2 & 4 should have end rhyme.
Lines 6 & 8 should have end rhyme.

17. 8-line Rhyme Poem Example: Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
Birds are flyin’ south for winter.
Here’s the wierd-Bird headin’ north.
Wings a-flappin’, beak a-chatterin’,
Cold head bobbin’ back ‘n’ forth.
He says, “It’s not that I like ice
Or freezin’ winds and snowy ground.
It’s just sometimes it’s kind of nice
To be the only bird in town.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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?)

21. 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.

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

23. 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.