Summer

                                            Hot, sunny

                          Playing, swimming, picnicking

                       Tornado, thunder, windy, blizzard

                            Snowing, shoveling, sledding

                                             Cold, dark

                                                 Winter

 

                                                 Spring

                                             Mild, green

                              Raining, growing, cleaning

                 Blossoms, vernal, autumnal equinoxes

                            Harvesting, storing, feasting

                                  Colorful, comforting

                                                    Fall

 

Footnote: This is a double diamante poem. A diamante Poem is a non-rhyming structure of 7 lines. Line 1 has one word. Line 2 has 2 adjectives describing line 1. Line 3 is three words ending in “-ing” describing line 1. Line 4 has four nouns; if line 7 is opposing line 1, then 2 nouns describe line 1 and 2 nouns describe line 7. Line 5 is three “-ing” words describing line 7. Line 6 is 2 adjectives describing line 7. Line 7 is one word, can be opposing line 1.