1 Poetry Chapbook Project 1. Students will create a Poetry Chapbook. Chapbooks will consist of 30 short and original poems. Poems will include many poetic devices. All poems should be a minimum of 50 words except for the hand poem, cinquain, haiku, simile, villanelle, invented and diamente poems which have their own rules. Poems may be longer. 1. Haiku (3) 2. Cinquain (3) 3. Simile Poem (3) 4. Diamente-Symetrical poem (3) 5. Animal Poem 6. Body Poem 7. Bitterness Poem 8. Superhero Poem 9. Memory Poem 10. Fill in the Blank Poem 11. Metaphor Poem 12. Person Poem 13. Worry Poem 14. Cause Poem 15. Emotion Poem 16. Object Poem 17. Hand Poem 18. Villanelle Chapbooks should also have three visuals and a cover. Visuals may be drawings, paintings, special craft paper, stickers, photos, or magazine pictures that have special meaning to the poetry included in the chapbook.
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Poetry Chapbook Project
1. Students will create a Poetry Chapbook. Chapbooks will consist of 30 short and
original poems. Poems will include many poetic devices. All poems should be a
minimum of 50 words except for the hand poem, cinquain, haiku, simile, villanelle,
invented and diamente poems which have their own rules. Poems may be longer.
1. Haiku (3)
2. Cinquain (3)
3. Simile Poem (3)
4. Diamente-Symetrical poem (3)
5. Animal Poem
6. Body Poem
7. Bitterness Poem
8. Superhero Poem
9. Memory Poem
10. Fill in the Blank Poem
11. Metaphor Poem
12. Person Poem
13. Worry Poem
14. Cause Poem
15. Emotion Poem
16. Object Poem
17. Hand Poem
18. Villanelle
Chapbooks should also have three visuals and a cover. Visuals may be
drawings, paintings, special craft paper, stickers, photos, or magazine
pictures that have special meaning to the poetry included in the chapbook.
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Haiku
Haiku Rules
Haiku must have three lines.
The lines usually have 5, 7, 5 syllables each for a total of 17 syllables
1 season word
Usually no rhyme or metaphor
Write three short lines. Edit all extra words. Pare the lines down to their verb and noun roots. Question
whether the adjectives and adverbs are necessary. Do you need every article? Insert one season word
into the poem to direct the reader to certain time. The word can be simply “autumn” as in:
Looking for the moon
In a lonely autumn sky
--mountain castle lights.
Petals fall to earth
Light glitters in the raindrops
Spring has come to me
Mucky undergrowth
Dark, sinister, morbid place,
Beneath the floor boards.
Simple browns and golds
Soaring high with wind filled wings,
Eagles so graceful
Anger is a fire,
Burning through those it touches,
Always leaving scars.
Sadness it happens
You feel it when someone dies
Will it ever end?
Translated from Japanese
(They may not have the right number of syllables)
After the storm
A boy wiping the sky
From the tables
Bright orange spheroid
Why do you hide your sweetness
Inside of your skin?
On a fall Sunday
I was reading a comic book
Until it fell
One day of early spring
A snowman melts
I drink it
In summer one day
When the sun shone very brightly
His eyes were golden
An old pond
A frog jumps in
Sound of water
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Cinquains
These short, unrhymed poems consist of twenty-two syllables and are distributed a 2,4,6,8,2 syllables in five lines.
TRIAD
These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow…the hour
Before the dawn…the mouth of one
Just dead
Cinquains have always attracted a number of poets
who are still developing the form.
CINQUAINS
By
Jeanne Cassler
Catch us
When we chase you,
Boys, your arms around us
Will tell you a secret that has
No words
First Visit to the Ocean
She’s lost
Inside her laugh
Before the rising tide
That reaches out to tickle her
Bare toes.
Shade Tree
The oak
In my backyard
Holds twisted rope and wood
And knows the name of evry child that swings.
Slow Squeeze
I watch from my window;
A tearful, little toad
Becomes a garter snake’s lunch, wart
By wart.
Jumping
Into the pond.
I kick my fear away,
My arms pull down, my head pops up,
I breathe.
By
Thomas D. Greer
FATHERHOOD
1
Shaving:
Lather, scrape, rinse,
Drowsy repetition.
Two sons stand crowding at the door,
Staring.
2
Pickup,
Parked in the lot;
Bicycles in the bed—
Wheels slowly progress, back and forth,
Waiting.
3
Sidewalk;
Roller skate-obstructed,
A nearly intact Fudgescile,
Melting.
4
Newscast:
Another child
“missing, last seen wearing…”
All night long, awake, listening,
Checking.
5
Waking
At 3:00 a.m.
Panicked, sure I forgot
Something important. Did Andrew
Potty?!
6
Watching
His brother climb
The backyard’s tallest tree.
His eyes follow, he tells himself:
One da
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SIMILE POEMS
Similes draw comparisons between two things by using like or as.
To make a list poem from similes, first choose an idea to compare things to. Then, write down things that relate to
your idea. Use this list to form your poem. Compare at least 3 things to the object or idea and use the “to be” verbs
is, are, was or were to show a relationship between the idea and the things you’ve chosen.
Example: Idea lonely
Similar things: tree, pup, ran, night
-As lonely as…-
As lonely as a with a tree without leaves
As lonely as an abandoned pup
As lonely as footsteps in the rain
Is my house in the quiet of night.
As black as a raven
As black as a panther
As black as a witch’s hat
Is my cat, Nightshade
As cold as a polar bear's nose
As cold as a penguin's flippers
As cold as an ice cube down my back
Are my bare hands while making a snowball.
As slimy as a fish
As slimy as a slug’s trail
As slimy as a worm
Is the uncooked egg sliding down my throat.
As ridiculous as my mom listening to hip hop
As ridiculous as my little sister wearing make up
As ridiculous as my dad’s singing in the shower
Is the costume I have to wear in the school play
As insidious as a snake lying in wait for a rat
As insidious as a cancer working it’s way in the body
A diamente poem is seven lines long, in a diamond shape, and is usually unrhymed (but not always).
1. Select a pair of words that are opposites: light/dark, hot/cold, ice/fire.
2. Follow the formula to create a perfect diamante poem.
Line:
1- a noun that is also the poem's title
2- 2 adjectives describing line 1
3- 3 words that end in "ing" that relate to the noun in line 1
4- 4 nouns. First two relate to noun in line 1
Last two relate to line 7
5- 3 words that end in "ing" that describe noun in line 7
6- 2 adjectives that describe noun in line 7
7- A noun that is the opposite or the partner to noun in line 1.
Think of this poem as a progression of images and ideas flowing from line 1 through line 7.
Sand
scratchy hot
shifting moving baking
dunes hills waves pools
moaning sleeping roaring
deep green
sea
Dawn
bright bold
sparkling smiling laughing
birds bees cats bats
slinking creeping crawling
deep shy
dusk
Duckling
Shapeless needy
Roaming Begging pestering
Web, feet, white, black
Gliding drifting pleasing
Gracious intelligent
swan
Gold
Coveted, precious
Glittering, shining, winning
Coins, crowns, pencil, bars
Protecting, poisoning, deadening
Unwanted, dull
Lead
Smoke
Dense hot
Confusing blinking numbing
Wisps, curls, breezes, gales
Living restoring rejuvenating
Fresh clean
Air
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The Villanelle A villanelle is composed of six stanzas, beginning with five three line stanzas, and ending with one four line stanza. Usually there is at
least one repeating line. There are only two rhymes in the usual villanelle, placed strategically in the poem. One of the most noted of these
that is a splendid example is one by Dylan Thomas,
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse me, bless me, now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
Mad Girl's Love Song
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary darkness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you'd return the way you said.
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
--Sylvia Plath
The form for Villanelle is a poem of six stanzas which follow this rhyme scheme:
A A
B 1 B 4
A A
A A
B 2 B 5
A A
A A
B 3 B
A A 6
A
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ANIMAL POEM
Write a poem about an animal or using an animal. You can describe the animal, talk to the animal, be the
animal, or you can combine all three approaches.
You must know the animal well - its habits, idiosyncrasies, anatomy, habitat, and so forth. Please include at
least one metaphor and one simile in this poem.
For example:
Siamese Fighting Fish
The fish glides gracefully
across the tank
His unblinking eyes stare
bold and blank
His fantail flaps like a flag
Proud in his rainbow-planted armor
He hovers majestically over a sea
of gem-like gravel
Then, instinctively, it arches into a warrior’s stance
With one swift movement
it lunges at its prey.
After viciously tearing it apart
It feasts on its remains like a barbarian.
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things
by employing the words "like", "as", or "than".[1] Even though both similes
and metaphors are forms of comparison, similes indirectly compare the
two ideas and allow them to remain distinct in spite of their similarities,
whereas metaphors compare two things directly.
For instance, a simile that compares a person with a bullet would go as
follows: "Chris was a record-setting runner as fast as a speeding bullet." A
metaphor might read something like, "When Chris ran, he was a speeding
“Object Poem”: After reading the models, think of objects that are of significance to you. The object
does not have to be a trophy or an heirloom, or even anything you treasure. It just has to be something
that brings to mind a vivid scene or memory when you look at it
Choose some object or entity for close observation: a stone, a fungus, a wristwatch, an onion, a frog, a
pine cone, a leaf, a hummingbird
Whatever you choose, give it your closest attention. Make notes on it. Describe it as best you can using
all your senses. After you have made enough specific, concrete images to form a solid foundation,
generalize from the things you observe to some meaning drawn from your observations. For example,
describe a rock in great detail, then make a generalization about life, or time, or the human condition
based on that description. Don't be afraid to overdo it; you can cut back in revision.
1. Choose any interesting object.
2. Describe the object as best as you can.
3. Write a 50 word poem that incorporates that object. You may use the object or just reflect on
why it exists.
Example:
Computers
They are everything And nothing.
30 years ago they were impossible wonders, flights of the fanciful
Dreams
Now, they are windows into the world
Letting me see wonders,
Letting me talk to friends, strangers, lovers, and maybe even…
Aliens!
I learn many things from faraway
Things about my next door neighbors…
Things about myself
They can do amazing things and,
like Houdini
allow me to escape
the real world for a while
but with a smile and a sigh,
I always come back.
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EMOTION POEM
“Emotion Poem”: Wordsworth called poetry "the spontaneous overflow of feelings." After
reading the models, choose an abstract emotion. Though you will not actually mention the emotion in
your poem, it will be your working title. Be as precise as you can. If you choose sadness, I would ask
you to be more specific: loss, loneliness, disappointment? Instead of telling us about the feeling, pick a
single image which, to you, captures the emotion in a concrete way. Use at least 2 specific visual
details. Now give an extended example of someone who has experienced that emotion, real or
imagined. End your poem by tying both images together to show your reader that you have a better
understanding of what this emotion really means.
1. Choose one strong emotion: Joy,
happiness, disappointment,
embarrassment, anger, jealousy,
resentment, or fear.
2. Think about how that emotion makes
you feel. What causes that emotion? Do
you like or hate that emotion? What
would you rather be feeling?
3. Write a 50 word poem that incorporates
a strong emotion.
Fear Fear is black like stormy clouds. It tastes like cold rice pudding. It smells musty and damp It looks like a dark lonely street. It sounds like echoing footsteps,