Amotisse week seven

As we continue our exploration of playful wordsmithing, it's time to discover and dabble in a little poetry.

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​Chinese portrait – if I was…

• an animal
• a colour
• a sin
• a painting style
• a time of the day
• a drink
• a fabric
• a mythological character
• a flower
• a public building
• a vegetable
• a fruit
• a dance
• a town
• a writer
• a country
• a piece of furniture
• an object
• a natural phenomenon
• an emotion
• an activity
• a monster
• a song
• an artist
• a spice
• a sport
• a historical year
• a dessert
• a meal
• a movie
• one of the 4 elements
• a verb
• an adjective
• a jewel
• one of the 5 senses
• a sound
• a superhero
• a famous person
• a month
• a day of the week
• a landscape
• movie genre
• school subject
• high tech object

• part of a house 

​Cento

I am currently enjoying a 3 week free poetry course with www.futurelearn.com and through this discovered a new type of poem called a cento, also known as a collage or patchwork poem.  A cento is made with lines from other poems to create a new poem.  It is like a form of appropriation and because we are quoting only one line at a time, we are not infringing copyright.
There are surely many ways to go about it; however, we will experiment with a short two-line cento. 

1. Find two poems that you like.
2. Choose two lines, one from each poem.
3. Place them together how you like, use a theme if you want but it doesn’t have to make sense, have a play around and see what you come up with
4. Make sure you cite the title, author and source of each poem.

​Cinquain

This is a little poem of five lines (from French, cinq = 5) from what I have discovered there are a few different ways to write a cinquain.  The following format focuses on a central theme, matching tenses and point of view and specific numbers of syllables per line as below:

1. 2 syllables
2. 4 syllables
3. 6 syllables
4. 8 syllables
5. 2 syllables

The second, (above), I found in an old school textbook. 
Follow the pattern or instructions to make your own cinquains. 
Which do you prefer?