Petals of Poetry

 

          Petals of Poetry are an awesome web page where you can find interesting facts about flowers in exciting Poems!  Here are some examples of some poems. 

 

 

1st poem = Diamante       A Diamante poem is a diamond shaped poem that starts with a verb.  The second line has 2nd   nouns and the 3rd line has 3 ing words. The  4th line has just a 4 word phrase.  Next, you start the process all over again.  Don’t forget to start all of the beginning with capital letters.  Here is an example.

 

Pretty, colorful

Growing, smelling, picking

There’re wonderful and colorful

Watering, shining, sprouting

Live, die

 

 

2nd poem=pyramid  In a Pyramid the first line has one subject, the second line has 2nd  adjectives, the 3rd line has three ing words and the 4th line has a small phrase with a word or two at the end.

                            

Garden

Beautiful, colorful

Planting, watering, picking

Don’t let the bee sting you.  Ouch!

 

 

 

3rd poem=Haiku   In a Haiku you have 5 syllables in the first line.  In the second line you have 7 syllables, and in the third line you have 5 syllables again.

 

 

 

My mom adores flowers

She smells the wonderful scent

She loves all the colors