Water
Vibrant, powerful,
Sparkling, astonishing, fascinating,
Water gives us life,
Refreshing, manifesting, living,
Shallow, profound,
Fluid
Author notes
This type of poetry is called Diamante. As you can see the words appear as if they are i nthe shape of a diamond. But this form of poetry has its rules as well.
here is the pattern:
(as explained on shadow poetry .com)
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject
A contest entry
- lessons worth gold by solitarytear.
700 points, ended January 27, 27 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - should you be on my favorites? by Melissa Gayle.
600 points, ended February 3, 24 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
Comments
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Excuse me, I just read your notes and see that the gerunds are part of the form. I apologize for that, normally I don't read the author notes.
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Yhea. I enjoyed your contest by the way!
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I appreciate that you wrote a form piece and I am somewhat aware of the dynamics -
at the same timeI feel like you have a lot of gerunds for such a short piece.
Thank you for your entry. -
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