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Mrs Muffet's lanturnes lit the blogland of Sulekha with so many colorful lamps, and I thought , with Diwali around the corner, lets try to make an effort to make it brighter! Firstly, thanks to MM for passing the baton to me. Binaji is sick, Ghazzie is busy, and PEC has to go on. So here I come with this week's theme for poems! In the past few weeks, we have learnt to count, err.. count syllables, I thought how about learning about shapes? The week's theme is going to be " DIAMANTE." It is a very simple form of poetry, and the whole poem shapes up to form a diamond! There are 7 lines to it, where in the first line and the last lines are Antonyms/Synonyms. RULES : Line 1: Noun or subject Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject (sources of the poetry form from Shadow Poetry.com) The fun part is they do not require syllable counting. All of us are going to busy this week, and hence I thought of choosing this form, a very simple form. Some examples are on my comment section. I am unable to formatt or edit the formatting, all the words appear in a single row! Please check the comment section :)
EXAMPLES:

Rain clear, pristine splashing, drizzling, pouring, fresh, zesty, cold, numb, freezing, biting, shivering, tempest, stormy Blizzard

Life beautiful, tough challenging, exciting,thriving adventurous, oriented, silent, slumber grieving, mourning, depressing ambiguous, solemn Death..
Rules and regulations (copy pasted from Mrs.Muffet's blog)

1)

You can write as long or as short a poem, but remember too long poems may not be able to hold attention of people. You can write in both languages, Hindi and English.

2)

One winner and two runner ups will be selected in every contest.

3)

One new poet will be recognized too, that is, a new entrant or the one who has never written poetry before. The new entrant will have to specify this when he/she enters the contest.

4)

The winner of the contest will hold the next contest.

5)

Previous winners can win again but only after two more contests have taken place. Suppose Mr/Mrs A wins contest 1, then he/ she will be able to win again the 4 th contest. It doesn't matter if he/ she has entered all previous contests.

6)

All entries should be left in the comment section of this blog. Preferably use rich text editor to leave your link to the entry; this way, its easy for everyone to open it and read.You can write as many as you want but only the first three will be considered for the contest. 4 poems will qualify for a single entry.

7) 8)

Refrain from using foul or abusive language. For 'type of poetry', you can go to http://shadowpoetry.com/ and experiment with new forms.

9)

You can post your own pictures and ask people to write on it, but remember, you must specify the type or form of poetry. 10) Its my request to leave heartfelt comments of not less than two -three lines for all poems. You may tell the poet what appealed and what didnt appeal to you. Please avoid writing one word comments like, superb, awesome or very nice, etc

11) Last day for entries are : 10th Nov 2011. Trial

WISH YOU ALL A VERY BRIGHT ,HAPPY and SAFE DIWALI!!!!!!!! Awaiting to read each and everyone of your poems!!!! Cheers

Line 1: Noun or subject Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject
(One Tongue in Cheek) Girl Beautiful, Gorgeous Loving, Caring, Charming Blonde, Dumb, Tall, Handsome Pleasing, Pioneering, Championing Intelligent, Smart Boy

Rural Fresh, Relaxed Fascinating, Exhilarating, Refreshing Green, Healthy, Polluted, Crowded Confusing, Stimulating, Invigorating

Fast, Modern Urban

Happiness Zealous, Passionate Enlivening, Inspiring, Energizing Positivity, Life, Dull, Drag Depressing, Sobering, Killing Drab, Harmful Sorrow

Gabbar Bad, Popular Frightening, Simmering, Amusing Villainous, Hideous, Humorous, Flirty Entertaining, Fighting, Acting Heroic, Playful Veeru

Cat Tom, Snooty, Snooping, Probing, Prying Flexible, Stupid, Swift, Intelligent Meddling, Poking, Interfering Clever, Jerry

Mouse