Poems

This week we started a new unit in short stories. The unit is on poems. I have already written 4 poems. No, the poems we have written do not rhyme. The first poem we did was a Personal Poem. When we did this poem, we got a sheet with an example of a Personal Poem and on the back was exactly what we needed to do, fill in the blanks. First we needed to put our first name, then wrote down 3 adjectives that describe us. We also had to write down other things like: your sibling(s), you feel, you love, your fears, and who you want to see or what or where. Then you put your last name.

Another poem that we wrote was a Haiku poem. The Haiku poem originated in Japan. The poem has to be about nature, or animals, not on sports or games or anything else like that. The Haiku poem contains 3 lines, the 1st with 5 syllables, the 2nd with 7 syllables, and the 3rd with 5 syllables.
Syllables: are the different sounds of the word.  Example: actually   act-u-al-ly  actually has 4 syllables.

 

 

That Tanka poem was on other one we did. If someone wrote you a Haiku poem, then you would write them a Tanka poem in return to thank them. The Tanka poem does not have to be on the same subject as the Haiku poem was. The Tanka has 5 lines. The 1st line has 5 syllables, the 2nd line has 7 syllables, the 3rd also has 5 syllables, the 4th also has 7 syllables, and the 5th happens to have 7 syllables. The Tanka has to be about nature or animals as well as the Haiku poem.

 

The last poem that we have learned to do so far is the Cinquain poem. That is pronounced sink-wane. Unlike the Haiku and the Tanka, this poem can be about anything. It has 5 lines. This one is a little harder to follow because you have to stay on one topic and can't move away from it. The 1st line has to have 1 word that is a noun that must have 2 syllables, the 2nd line has to have 4-5 syllables bust words that describe your topic, the 3rd line has 6 syllables and tells an action on your topic, line 4 has to contain 8 syllables and expresses a feeling or shares information about your topic, and line 5 has another 2 syllable noun about your topic.

 

There, now you know 4 new poems. Well you probably could only write 3 of them.

If you write a good poem, you should leave a comment so I could read it.