1. Diamante:

A diamond-shaped poem of contrast, where the two ends of the poem are opposites and the transition from one end to the other is smooth. No two apposite/conflicting words are next to each other.

Start by coming up with words for lines 1 and 7 first.

  • Line 1 - noun or subject
  • Line 2 - two adjectives about line 1
  • Line 3 - three -ing words (verbs) about line 1
  • Line 4 - four words, two about line 1, two about line 7
  • Line 5 - three -ing words (verbs) about line 7
  • Line 6 - antonym (opposite) of line 1

Class examples:

Block 2:

Lawn Mower

Loud, Green

Cutting, rumbling, smoking,

clipping grass, leaves, weeds

growing, spreading, swaying

yellow, fluffy

dandelions

 

 

 

Block 3:

Butler

Proper, Obedient

Waiting, cleaning, driving

Diligent, working, driven, ambitious

demanding, commanding, owning,

wise, wealthy

master

 

 

2. Etheree

 

A poem of 10 lines with increasing Syllables, starting with one syllable on line one, and ten on line 10. This is similar to a NONET, but Etherees have 10 lines (Nonets have 9). The can be in ascending (1-10) or descending (10-1) order.

 

 

Examples:

 

Block 2:

 

Smooth

Orange

Velveeta

softens around

my nachos with ease.

Jalapeņo peppers

incinerate my taste buds,

burning my throat as I swallow--

melting my eyes, making them water

and drip like the cheese that soothes my belly.

 

 

Block 3:

 

Black

and white

flightless bird

swims gracefully,

zooming after fish.

Motherly instinct drives

her deep into icy dark--

gorging herself. the newfound girth

makes her hastily belly slide to her young chick,

hungry and patient on the frozen plain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated by Robert Keim on June 3rd, 2010

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