{"id":983,"date":"2019-04-10T18:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T22:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyfaughnan.com\/faughnan\/?p=983"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:35:56","slug":"poetry-challenge-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/10\/poetry-challenge-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Challenge #82"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615410\">\n<h2>Diamond in the Rough<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615411\">A Diamante is a diamond-shaped poem, simple as that.<span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615412\">\u00a0 <\/span>In the same way diamonds\/gems\/rocks\/stones\u2014come in many shapes, colors, and sizes, diamante poems can be about anything, and they can be as long as you want to make them. A Diamante begins with a one word (or syllable) line. Each subsequent line grows longer by one. The longest line is at the midpoint. \u00a0From the midpoint, lines decrease in length until the poem ends as it began&#8211;with a one word line. The shortest Diamante has three lines:<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615413\" align=\"center\"><span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615414\">One word<br clear=\"none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615415\" align=\"center\"><span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615416\">Two words<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615417\" align=\"center\"><span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615418\">One word<br clear=\"none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615419\" align=\"center\"><span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615420\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615421\">\n<div id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615521\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615422\">Write a diamond-shaped Diamante about something you value.<span id=\"yiv9149888392yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1554652107247_615423\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s a frame to help you see your poem.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image loaded aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5225e775e4b0419ba4d7f35f\/t\/5cae5065c4eaa70001669733\/1554927722819\/Diamante+Frame.jpg?format=300w\" alt=\"Here\u2019s a Diamante Frame if you prefer structure.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5225e775e4b0419ba4d7f35f\/t\/5cae5065c4eaa70001669733\/1554927722819\/Diamante+Frame.jpg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5225e775e4b0419ba4d7f35f\/t\/5cae5065c4eaa70001669733\/1554927722819\/Diamante+Frame.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"350x270\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5cae5065c4eaa70001669733\" data-type=\"image\" data-position-mode=\"standard\" data-image-resolution=\"300w\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Set the timer for 7 minutes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Start writing!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/kellybennett.com\/blog\/\">Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 1050 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond in the Rough A Diamante is a diamond-shaped poem, simple as that.\u00a0 In the same way diamonds\/gems\/rocks\/stones\u2014come in many shapes, colors, and sizes, diamante poems can be about anything, and they can be as long as you want to make them. A Diamante begins with a one word (or syllable) line. Each subsequent line &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/10\/poetry-challenge-82\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry Challenge #82&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}