Forlorn Heart (Diamante)

by Courageous Dreamer   Sep 20, 2008


First attempt at this form.

---------------Heart
---------Forlorn, shattered
---Bleeding, aching, screaming
-------Love, soul, beat, rate
----Dying, cracking, breaking
-----------Dull, abnormal
---------------Pulse

A diamante is a seven line poem, shaped like a diamond.

Line 1 -one word, a noun.

Line 2 - two words, both adjectives, describing the first word.

Line 3 -three words, all action verbs. (words ending with "ing")

Line 4 - four words, nouns, first two words relate to line 1 and the last two words relate to line 7.

Line 5 -three words, action verbs. (words ending with "ing")

Line 6 - two words, adjectives, describing the last word.

Line 7 -one word, a noun, which is a synonym or antonym to line 1.

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  • 15 years ago

    by Krista

    "Heart.
    Forlorn, shattered"
    --I liked this. It introduced a common topic: a broken heart, but I liked your word choice. Forlorn has an excellent usage in this part. Great way to start off a short piece.

    "Bleeding, aching, screaming.
    Love, soul, beat, rate."
    --I liked how you used screaming. It really personifies a broken heart and how that person feels. Bleeding was used well too. It really was a good follow up to the previous lines. I liked beat and rate, and it ties nicely to the previous and following lines.

    "Dying, cracking, breaking.
    Dull, abnormal.
    Pulse"
    --Again, I'm finding the words in this poem well used. I like how it really shows how the heart is broken after a mishap. Dull and abnormal were a nice change too. I don't see abnormal often, and it was cool to see it used. Pulse really wrapped up the piece, and I liked it.

    Overall: I enjoyed this poem. I like short poems, and this was a good example of a diamante.
    Excellently penned.

    --Krista

  • 15 years ago

    by Lauren Waszkiewicz

    I loved the form, i just wish on this site we could actually write concret poems. i thought the vocabulary could have been better, but overall this was pretty well written. In the definition of this style i did not see anything where it said the 4 words had to be 4 letters, so i was wondering why you chose to do so when other, longer, words, i feel, could have worked much better with the poem.
    i did, however, love this style, and i thought you executed it well.

    `:Lauren

  • 15 years ago

    by Reapers ZeitGeiSt

    I like the fact that you write in your own rules...keep it up..very nice job

  • 15 years ago

    by ledane

    Those are hard to write.. had to do one for my daughter.. very nice job and to the point.. really liked it:)

  • 15 years ago

    by BREEawNUHH

    I really enjoyed reading this. I thought your word choice was great, and I feel like you got a lot across with few words. To be honest, there is not much more I can say about it. lol. I wrote something like this once.. in the 4th grade. Mine came out.. really bad. Hahah. But really, though -- I loved it.

    Five out of five. [5/5]

    ``Briana

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