Poetry Booklet

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Poetry Booklet

• Ima Poet
• Hour 1
• December 22, 2005

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List Poem

• As I open the door,
• I see
• 35 desks with various markings,
• 1 desk with organized clutter,
• various candy wrappers on the floor,
• paper shavings of different sizes,
• broken pencils mixed in between,
• glares of sun coming through the blinds,
• and the reason I dont want to stay
• correcting.

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Wingspark Poem

• Line 1 I dreamed
• Line 2 answers the question Who?
• Line 3 answers the question Where?
• Line 4 shows action
• Line 5 describes how
• the action was done

Dream
I dreamed Michael Jordan In my driveway Dunked a
basketball Dramatically!
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Diamante Poem

• Line 1 one word title
• Line 2 two words describing the title
• Line 3 three ing words telling about title
• Line 4 four nouns relating to the title
• Line 5 three ing words describing line 4
• Line 6 two words describing the noun you will
  use in line 7
• Line 7 one word noun that is the opposite of
  the title or shows a change

• Bicycle
• Sleek, swift,
• Pedaling, flying, soaring,
• Wheels, pedal, chain, seat,
• Rolling, clanking, bending,
• Shattered, scattered,
• Stranded

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Acrostic Poem

• P eople get frustrated when my
• E nd is dull and not pointy.
• N obody seems to
• C are that grinding me away
• I s actually
• L osing precious lead too!

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Emotion Poem

• Name an emotion and tell its color. Then in four
  lines, tell how it tastes, smells, feels, and
  looks.

• Anger is red.
• It tastes like a bitter lemon.
• It smells like burning rubber.
• It feels like a flame on a match.
• It looks like a bonfire at night.

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Shaped Verse
Bounce, Bounce, bounce Focus on the rim, Take a
deep breath, Bend the knees, Follow
through, Shoot.
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ABC Poem

• Birds
• Can
• Definitely
• Eat
• Fast.

All Butterflies Can Dance.
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Candy Wrapper Poem
Milky Way

• In addition to describing your favorite candy in
  poem form, include candy wrappers on the page
  for your graphic.

• Milk chocolate covers the gooey,
• carmely center.
• After a bite, the insides stretch
• l o n g and f a r
• like stars across the sky.
• Where did it get its name?
• It does not matter
• as the taste will put you
• out
• of
• this
• world.

10
Rhymed Verse

• 4 lines with an ABAB pattern

Old Man Stubble

• The old man was chewing some gum
• When he decided to blow a bubble.
• The bubble had a strange outcome
• As it popped, it landed on his stubble.

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Headline Poem

• Create a poem by cutting out words from a
  newspaper
• The words should flow from one line another and
  make sense.