Thanks for participating again and I hope you feel better soon! Sinus headaches can be awful.

Here’s my diamante. I chose “dragon” for my subject, considering that I love them dearly. (And these are hard to write!)

Dragon
Serpentine Fanged
Soaring Fire-breathing Guarding
Treasure Gold Cave Fire
Burning Smoldering Roaring
Powerful Spell-bound
Legend

I didn’t post an optional subject because I thought it would be too limiting in this case. Keeping the subject matter the same each time should definitely prove interesting. I look forward to your discoveries.

Your diamante is beautiful and I’m so glad you chose to keep it soft. You definitely succeeded!

I appreciate not only your poem but your thoughts on the poetry form and why you chose to write it the way you did. I do hope others will feel free to post and offer their comments as well.

Thanks, Lucy. I can’t wait to read more of your writing!

As I thought about trying out a different poetry form every week, I had an idea! (Yes, that light bulb is dusty, but it works occasionally.) I will keep the subject matter the same, so that I could observe the different ways the same idea can be addressed through the various poetry forms. Last week my subject was menstruation.

I did an antonym:

Flow
Picky Perceptive
Careen Create Chase
Sister Sense Support System
Breathe Balance Be
Soft Still
Ebb

My conclusions:

This week’s was so much harder than last week’s to me! First, it’s difficult to not just make the poem completely disgusting based on the subject matter. Second, I didn’t want to use words like “crazy” because I feel, as a feminist, that our reproductive systems are used against us all the time. How many times have you heard a snide remark about a woman’s period and her inability to do something? Or a workplace taking a dim view of a woman’s pregnancy? So I wanted to make the ideas here about how sensitive and aware our bodies are. I hope I succeeded.

I also found the diamante form to be more conducive to a thoughtful poem, rather than a funny or pithy type.