This week, students leaned about another visual poetic form, diagram poems! We discussed there crossover between poetry and diagrams, how we can represent metaphors and allusions in this combined form, and how to integrate graphic elements into our poems. Please enjoy a selection of student poems below!
Ms. Smallwood
6th Grade
Time Gone Time And Time Again
Leo T.
Plain Text: Time gone / ____ a_d / ____ ______
The Door
Loretta J.
Plain Text: Flys Flying out / No Door to escape through / every Door is closed / Even the tiny window at the top / Fly Flying High / It’s more beautiful than you would imagine / The face I the window unclear who is it? / sad & depressed / Waiting for the end / People waiting / for him to come out / But how did he get in …..?
Cycle of Emotion
Amneh S.
Plain Text: emotion line / inside life / angry line / outside life / calm line / inside life
You’re feeling all of the emotion / you’re going to explode and then / get mad then fall asleep wake / the next day OK like nothing happened / but the scar is still there the cycle of / emotion happens all over again.
I unlock the door
Levin M.
Plain Text: I unlock the door / start to walk to my room / “Boo” my brother says
Fall
Baxter W.
Plain Text: Fall / Join / grow / tall / rise / bloom / age / die
House
Leila C.
Plain Text: House was hit by tornado. House was grazed to rubble. / House’s materials back and fixed. House is put together.
Ms. Hernandez
7th Grade
Thoughts
Kiera W.
Plain Text: What do I do? / Is that OK? / But would it be rude / No just do it / I HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION
Opposites
Brennon H.
Plain Text: -> : opposites / – : correlated
Pencil -> Pen Blank -> Full
Mad -> Happy
Basket -> Miss
First you fall in
Darcy A.
Plain Text: first you fall in / a 2 hour call with your friend / an hour of doom scrolling
The Home Run
Freddy P.
Plain Text: 1 The first ball. 2 crack – he hits / the ball. 3 The Breeze is flying / with the ball. 4 Home Run. 5 The crowd goes wild.
Losing a pet
Yusuf S.
Plain Text: The event (losing a pet) / Emotion before event / Sadness / Emotion during event / Emotion after event / Remembering incident (losing a pet)
