Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Diamante (poem)


Margo Roby invites us to write a diamante.  Here's my attempt:


flame

bright merciless

flickering awaiting luring

heat promise desire surrender

flying burning dying

crazy happy

moth





To read about the form and find links to other diamante poems go to:

http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/still-trying-those-tryouts-its-tuesday/


Live for the Love of it,
The Happy Amateur

11 comments:

  1. Excellent. I was also thinking about flame but I'm so glad that I didn't because your version is very good. Hadn't thought to include the moth. Thumbs up!

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  2. Love, love, love your opposites. How very clever. I am so jealous, now :-)

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  3. The moth to the flame. Very interesting, Sasha.

    Pamela

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  4. With each one of these that I read, the more I appreciate the possibiities of the form. Yours tells a vivid story

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  5. Nice. A different set of opposites. I went with the first thing that came to mind:

    http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/07/wg-tt-daimante-slick-slides-plus.html

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