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April 

is

National Poetry Month.  

The Academy of American Poets began its 

celebration in 1996.   Across our nation in businesses, 

organizations, bookstores, libraries, and schools all 

persons who have a love of words, readers and/or 

writers, can participate.

In classrooms poetry, for this one special 

month, takes center stage.   Writers that 

didn't know they could write blossom as 

they realize poetry has many forms.  

ACROSTIC

Acrostic poems use the first letters of a 

given word to begin the lines of a poem.   If 

the word has three letters, the poem will 

have three lines.  

Purposeful

Ongoing

Evolving

Memorable

Cinquain

A cinquain poem has five lines.   There are 

variations on the writing of a cinquain; some use a 

certain number of syllables, others a certain 

number or type of words.  

For the first line pick a person, place or thing.  

Follow with two adjectives describing the first 

word.   The next line is three words ending in --ing 

relating to the first line.   The fourth line is a 

phrase further describing line one.   The final

line is a synonym of the first line.

Library

Resourceful, Imaginative

Changing, Learning, Searching

The right to read

Equality

Diamante

A diamante poem is similar to a cinquain but the shape is a 

diamond using seven lines.   They are sometimes used to 

contrast two words.

The first line is one word.   The second is two describing 

words.   The third line is three ---ing words.   The fourth line 

is two nouns relative to line one and two nouns relative to 

line seven.   Line five contains three additional verbs.   Two 

more adjectives are contained in line five.   A one word 

synonym or another word of the writer's choice closes the 

poem.

Spring

Hopeful, Noisy

Promising, Welcoming, Warming

Time, Season, Equinox, Spell

Falling, Cooling, Waiting

Restful, Silent

Autumn

Haiku

An ancient form of Japanese poetry is 

haiku.   It consists of three lines.   The first 

line is five syllables, the second line is seven 

syllables and the third line reverts back to 

five syllables.   Haiku poetry tends to honor 

or relate to the world around us.

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