1. I am A2 2. Biographical / Bio Poem A4 3. Concrete A 4. Found N 5. Cinquain A5 6. Diamonte F 7. Acrostic S 8. Prose M 9. Someday Poem I 10. List D 11. Name R 12. Phrase T 13. Alphabet O 14. Definition P 15. Five W’s Poetry Q 16. Haiku U 17. Limerick V 18. Quatrain Z 19. Ballad X 20. Couplet Y 21. Synonym B 22. Opposites C 23. Month Metaphor A1 24. Three Word E 25. I Don’t Understand G 26. Just Because H 27. Weather Poem L 28. Sense Poem K 29. Bull Durham / Credo J 30. Sonnet A6 31. Lyric W 32. Song A2 1. I am I am a hard working teacher who loves to laugh I wonder how my students will do this year I hear their brains clicking I see the light in their eyes I want them to want to succeed I am a hard working teacher who loves to laugh I pretend I am always in control I feel like I’m swimming in quicksand sometimes I touch the hearts and minds of others I worry that I am not good enough I cry when one of my family is in pain II am a hard working teacher who loves to laugh I understand I cannot save everyone ignorance and apathy I say I still need to try I dream of being the best teacher I can be I try to make my classes interesting I hope I never stop caring Answer Key I am a hard working teacher who loves to laugh 2. Biographical / Bio Poem Carol. Busy, tired, mother and teacher, Sister of Bill, Lover of children, animals, and a happy classroom, Who feels joy when reading, power when riding, and sore muscles at day's end, Who needs laughter, pets, and flowers, Who gives help, love, and praise, Who fears dragons, big bugs, and gaining weight, Who would like to see everyone succeed, wars end forever, and a cure for A.I.D.'s, Resident of Deerfield, Aspen, Krimm. Answer Key 3. Concrete Answer Key 4. Found Found Poetry Based on Elsie Wall from American Life Histories, 1936-1940 Rocks in her chair between supper and dinner, thirty-two but looks forty-five. Never learned how to chop in the garden, never learned right how to pay at the store. Rocks in her chair between supper and dinner, children in rags lined up on the porch: all she can count, all she can figure. How can she clothe them to send them to school? Daughters with bright eyes of Jean Harlow, hang Jesus and movie stars framed on the walls. Six dollars a week for six mouths in the family: How will they work, get out of this town? Jim works in the cotton mill, tends crops in the garden. Elsie can cook if there's food in the house. Answer Key Pots catch the flow from the rainy roof leaks. Rocks on her porch in rain or in fine. 5. Cinquain Nature by Khaled Nature Beautiful, pure Refreshing, enjoying, relaxing Nature is healthy. Fun Answer Key 6. Diamonte Love Bright, Passionate Charming, Drifting, Growing Cherish, Infatuation, Antipathy, Uncaring Animosity, Falling, Dead Dark, Disgust Hate ---Kimiko Brantley (Grade 10) Answer Key 7. Acrostic Calm eyes Oozing Over Lake water Answer Key 8. Prose A Port is a delightful place of rest for a soul weary of life's battles. The vastness of the sky, the mobile architecture of the clouds, the changing coloration of the sea, the twinkling of the lights, are a prism marvellously fit to amuse the eyes without ever tiring them. The slender shapes of the ships with their complicated rigging, to which the surge lends harmonious oscillations, serve to sustain within the soul the taste for rhythm and beauty. Also, and above all, for the man who of mysterious and aristocratic pleasure in contemplating, while lying on the belvedere or resting his elbows on the jetty-head, all these movements of men who are leaving and men who are returning, of those who still have the strength to will, the desire to travel or to enrich themselves. --Charles Baudelaire-Answer Key 9. Someday Poem SOMEDAY... Someday I will play the guitar Someday I will have a job Someday I will get married Someday I will have kids Someday I will be rich Someday I will be noticed ---Melissa Manor (Grade 10) Answer Key 10. List THINGS KIDS SAY WHEN THEY WANT TO GET OUT TO PLAY --I did all my homework. --I picked up my toys. --I empitied the trash. --My bed is made. No, there are no lumps. --I ate all my vegetables. --But everyone else is. --Bobby's mom doesn't make him. --But, Mom. --No, my dirty clothes aren't under the bed. --Yes, Mom, I'm sure. --Yeah, I'll be careful.. No, I won't poke an eye out. --Oh, please! ---Steve Schlatter (Grade 10) Answer Key 11. Name Fierce Righteous Energetic Dude Answer Key 12. Phrase EATING SPAGHETTI with a twirl of a fork and the help of a spoon quickly up to the mouth before it all falls off Answer Key 13. Alphabet Cats Don’t Ever Fly (willingly) Answer Key 14. Definition Friendship Friendship is like stars in the sky. Like going to fly with Peace, and the moon shines on us while we fly. We walk through the sky and clouds. And we share the future in a treasure chest, topped with diamonds. - Jessamyn Ansary Answer Key 15. Five W’s Poetry I Love to ‘Blade Along Venice Beach In the middle of the day Because people are friendly and get out of your way Answer Key 16. Haiku Sun moves on rubble, weeds grow sideways in small cracks, small vines cling to walls. Answer Key 17. Limerick There once was a chef name Maurice Who always used way to much grease. His Chicken was fine; His fries were divine, But his dinners just made me obese. Answer Key 18. Quatrain Along the line of smoky hills The crimson forest stands, And all day long the blue-jay calls Throughout the autumn lands. Answer Key 19. Ballad We miners long ago did find the skull rock on the lake. The silver lay in open veins all shining for the take. Answer Key 20. Couplet Back and forth the dancer whirled, A butterfly with wings unfurled. Answer Key 21. Synonym LOVE Attachment, adoration, warmth, adore Love is so pure, right down to the core. ---Kimiko Brantley (Grade 10) NOISE Clamor, uproar, hullabaloo. These things can really annoy you. ---Shasta Inman (Grade 9) Answer Key 22. Opposites OPPOSITES What is the opposite of love? Maybe it is as beautiful as a white dove, Because love is so fine, This is something that I know is mine. What is the opposite of a smile? Maybe it is a frown that hasn't been seen in a while, Because a great smile brightens up the day, This has made my day better in every way. What is the opposite of true? It could be purple, or even blue. Because truth is better than a lie, I want the truth even from my special guy. ---Kimiko Brantley (Grade 10) Answer Key 23. Month Metaphor JULY trudges right in with a bang. It crawls around on the hot ground, leaps around spreading warmth, then glides right out of the way. ---Tierra Jones (Grade 10) Answer Key 24. Three Word MORNINGS sleep, alarm, awake alarm, awake, shower awake, shower, clothes shower, clothes, shoes clothes, shoes, dog shoes, dog, run dog, run, breakfast run, breakfast, sunrise breakfast, sunrise, car sunrise, car, work. ---Alex Buffington (Grade 10) Answer Key 25. I Don’t Understand I DON'T UNDERSTAND... I don't understand why people dislike me why people can't get along why dogs are colorblind and cats aren't But most of all why people are prejudiced why people must move away why people argue over stupid stuff why there is wars What I understand most is why trees grow why birds chirp why the suns shines why the car goes. Answer Key ---Anita Pepper (Grade 10) 26. Just Because Just because I'm scared Don't laught and giggle behind my head Don't kid and play when I'm not there Still ask me because I might play Just because I'm scared It doesn't mean I can't do it It doesn't give you the right to talk about me It doesn't stop me from having fun Just because I'm scared Still tell me everything you did Can't wait until I get big Just because I'm scared -- please try to be my friend ---Brandon Womack (Grade 10) Answer Key 27. Weather Poem THUNDER Thunder comes in loud Like the majestic roar of a lion. It answers the call Of lightening By striking fear into people. Away, somewhere in the sky, Somewhere in the unknown, An unknown voice, And then leaves without a trace Of its existence Except in peoples' stories. ---Elia Miller (Grade 9) Answer Key 28. Sense Poem sage-covered desert freshness of morning scream of the hawk caress of a breeze dew of the wind new day born Answer Key 29. Bull Durham / Credo CREDO I believe in the widsom of elders, the influence of peer pressure, the importance of success, the evil that exists in money, the effectiveness of hard work, dedication, courage, strength. But the belief that you don't have to strive for your goals is just outrageous. I believe in the truth that will set you free, I believe in love that will conquer all, I believe in respect for others, Courtesy, politeness, gratitude. And I believe in the fact that tomorrow isn't promised to you. Answer Key ---Tierra Jones (Grade 10) 30. Sonnet So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse, (A) And found such faire assistance in my verse, (B) As every Alien pen hath got my use, (A) And under thee their poesy disperse. (B) Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing, (C) And heavy ignorance aloft to flie, (D) Have added feathers to the learned's wing, (C) And given grace a double majestie. (D) Yet be most proud of that which I compile, (E) Whose influence is thine and born of thee, (F) In others'works thou dost but mend the style (E) And arts with thy sweet graces graced be. (F) But thou art all my art, and dost advance (G) As high as learning my rude ignorance. (G) Answer Key 31. Lyric I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's, all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core. -William Yeats Answer Key 32. Song Wish You Were Here Incubus I dig my toes into the sand The ocean looks like A thousand diamonds strewn Across a blue blanket I lean against the wind Pretend I am weightless And in this moment I am happy happy I wish you were I wish you were I wish you were I wish you were here here here here I lay my head onto the sand The sky resembles A backlit canopy With holes punched in it I'm counting UFOs I signal them with my lighter And in this moment I am happy happy Chorus The world's a rollercoaster And I am not strapped in Maybe I should hold with care My hands are busy in the air Saying Chorus Answer Key Concrete Poetry Concrete Poetry is the use of words and their physical formation to convey meaning. This may be done with color, the shape of the letters, and/or the arrangement of words. Samples below show some of the many variations available. To view various forms of concrete poetrty on the Internet, click on the words in bold lettering in this sentence. You may use the information you find at this link, but you may not publish it in anything other than a school report. Directions: Graphically create a scene using only words. From a distance this will look like a picture, but up close it will consist only of words and phrases. No extra lines or shapes should be used. A light pencil line might be drawn first as a guide. Use colors, shapes, and sizes that will enhance the meaning of words. Answer Key I Am Poem 1st Stanza I am (two special characteristics you have) 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 is repeated) Stanza 2 I pretend (something you really pretend to do) I feel (a feeling about something imaginary) I touch (something you imagine you touch) I worry (a worry that is real to you) I cry (something that makes you very sad) I am (the first line of the poem is repeated) Stanza 3 I understand (something you know is true) I say (something you believe in) I dream (a dream you actually have) I try (something you make an effort to do) Answer Key I hope (something you really hope for) I am (the first line of the poem is repeated) Form of Diamonte Poem There are two patterns you can follow in writing a diamonte. Pattern 1 Line 1 = NounLine Line 2 = Adjective, Adjective Line 3 - Verb, Verb, Verb Line 4 = Noun, Noun, Noun, Noun Line 5 = Verb, Verb, Verb Line 6 = Adjective, Adjective Line 7 = Noun Pattern 2 Line 1 = Opposite of line 7 Line 2 = Describe line 1 Line 3 = Action about line 1 Line 4 = 2 nouns about line 1, 2 nouns about line 7 Line 5 = Action about line 7 Line 6 = Describe line 7 Line 7 = Opposite of line 1Student Examples: Form of Cinquain Poem Line 1 = One Word (noun) Subject & title of poem Line 2 = Two Words (adjectives) Line 3 = Three Words (verbs) Line 4 = Four words that relate feelings Line 5 = One word that repeats or refers to line 1 (subject) Answer Key