Naturalist,
Handout from the December 4, 2006
Master Naturalist Class at
Haiku
Is
a Japanese form of poetry that consists of three lines:
the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables
and the third line has five syllables.
Example:
Trees move in the breeze
Bare branches anticipate
Softly falling snow
SMB
Cinquain
Poems
consist of five lines, and each line has a mandatory purpose and number of
syllables:
1)
the title in two
syllables
2)
a description of the
title in four syllables
3)
a description of action
in six syllables
4)
a description of a
feeling in eight syllables
5)
another word for the
title in two syllables
Example:
Forests
Graceful, growing
Climbing among the clouds
Calmly awaiting the sunrise
Alive
Acrostic
Poetry shows an
“acronym”, i.e. the first letter in each line, when read vertically, spells
out the name of something or conveys some other kind of message.
Towering
Reaching
Extending
Embracing the sky.
Diamente
Poems
are diamond-shaped and consist of seven lines that follow the following pattern:
1)
noun
(topic)
2)
adjective adjective
(descriptive words)
3)
verb verb verb
(action words)
4)
noun noun noun noun
(name or topic)
5)
verb verb verb
(action words)
6)
adjective adjective
(descriptive words)
7)
noun
(topic)
Seed
Small buried
Growing breathing living
Protection oxygen shade
habitat
Dying rotting crumbling
Moist rich
Soil
Picture Poetry
Forms
a picture of what is happening in the poem.
Example:
Old
Old
tree
Dead
peeling
Holding
onto
earth
Vertical
Bumpy
Trunk
Reaching
Sheltering
Moss
Lichens
Moths
Owls
Larvae
A
Home
SMB
Windspark
Poetry
has five lines with the following pattern:
1)
“I dreamed,”
2)
“I was….”
(something or someone),
3)
where
4)
an action, and
5)
how
Example:
I dreamed
I was a tree
On a hillside
Playing with the wind
Joyfully
Free Verse
Follows
no set formula or style
Resource:
Environmental
Education Activity Guide—Project Learning Tree
c.1993