Diamante Poetry Contest
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Beach
sand phosphorescence
drifting blowing shining
feet dance toes water
approaching splashing receding
wet cold
Ocean
A udrey
H offm an
Ocean
briny frigid
breaking splashing crashing
reef kelp seashell seagull
stretching roiling undeviating
sandy granulitic
Shore
Y oonie
Kim
Ocean
cold stormy
crashing stirring turning
wetness power heat fire
b urning frying scorching
dry sandy
Desert
Lisa
Yock
Back in Septem ber we invited you to enter a
noncom petativepoetry contest, of a specific
kind of poetry called Diamante. It is based not
on rhythm or rhym e but on grammar. It
consists of sixteen words in seven lines; the
first line being a noun and the subject; the
second line two adjectives describing the
subject; the third line, three participles
(verbs used as adjectives by adding “ing”);
the fourth line four nouns, the first two
related to the subject and the last two related
to the final noun; line five, the same as line
three but regarding the final noun; line six,
two adjectives describing the final noun; and
the seventh line a noun that is the opposite of
the subject or first noun.
James Patton, a regular contributor and
poet as well as a teacher, suggested this, so in
his own edited words;
Never having sponsored a poetry contest of
any kind we were not too sure of what to
expect in the way of entries and were pleased
and a little overwhelmed by the more than
two hundred submissions received. (238-Ed.)
Poems came from Salem and Seattle and
points in between. Their subjects ranged
from the m eaning of life to canned meat.
Some were direct and some were obscure. All
were interesting reading and enjoyed by the
judges.
Since there is always subjectivity to the
enjoym ent of any poem, and since no “big
m oney” (in fact no money) was involved, the
judges decided to present the top three poems
in each category without ranking them. It
might be noted that this also prevented
fu rth er argum ent and possible violence
among the judges. The staff of the Upper Left
Edge congratulates and celebrates your
poetry.
Sonny
short wimpy-
singing voting electing
Republican dork makeup singer
singing singing selling
stylish aging
Cher
T h o rn b ru e
Girls
noisy pretty
talking gossiping flirting
notes hair sports money
playing spitting fighting
m uscular haughty
Boys
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Lust
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swaying sighing growing
abundance peace rape greed
suffering wailing dying
naked ugly
Clearcut
Ann
Jon
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Margot McLure
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B erlu reau
Oregon
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growing dispersing conserving
trees m ountains people buildings
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M eri
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assignm ent deadline television telephone
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calm comfortable
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Headache
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Aspirin Advil NyQuil Codeine
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Sleep
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Baldwin
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relaxed cured
Sinaid
Spam
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Sugary orange
Tang
Brian
Ken
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