Category: Creative

April 9 – Photographer

My attempt at a Harlequin poem, a short poem.

Harlequin, a poetic form, rather stories in 9-lines, and 25 syllables ( 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1) which could be one or more words. “Outline or action series” of a story is how the poem is written. Of course, diamond shape is the end result. ( like in Diamante).

April 8 – Anthurium

Diamante, is the attempted poetic form, which is a form of concrete poetry. The arrangement gives the poem a diamond shape. This 7-line poem has a specific structure :

Noun

Adjective, Adjective

Verb, Verb, Verb

Noun,Noun,Noun, Noun

Verb, Verb, Verb

Adjective, Adjective

Noun

In this Diamante, exploring a topic is what I have written.

Anthurium, commonly seen houseplant, has a heart-shaped, glossy petal-like structure that in reality is ‘spathe’ a modified leaf that protects flowers. The actual flower is tiny and is found in the spirals of the ‘spadix’, the protrusion from the base of spathe.

The exotic, tropical plants are often seen in shades of red, pink, white and yellow.