3rd Grade Poetry Techniques

Cinquain

Diamond-shaped, short

Learned in school

Content, simple, expressive, inspired

Poem

Godlike source of all knowledge

O, my love I do pledge

Other "O", this is hard, the hell with it

Gee, I'm being a twit

La, la, I hate rhyming

Evidently that's a sure thing

Actually an interesting form of poem I did in elementary school, less deep (okay, *hopefully* less deep) than the one below, obviously... (results are revealing of personality and can be non-rhyming, yay! If you want to post yours as an easy, cop-out blog idea like I have, use "I *verb*" and replace what I wrote with your personal sentiments that match the verb.)

I am scatterbrained and thoughtful

I wonder about both trivial things and unanswerable questions

I hear voices transformed into conversations

I see complexities where there shouldn't be

I want to understand--everything

I am scatterbrained and thoughtful

I pretend to be better than I am

I feel the humid summer mist wash over me in the darkness

I touch the lives that drift past mine

I worry that I won't make a difference

I cry over pretty random things, in retrospect

I am scatterbrained and thoughtful

I understand second grade math

I say things in order to be heard

I dream that I'm floating

I try to find balance

I hope that the next day will be interesting

I am scatterbrained and thoughtful