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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>A <b>Zip Ode</b> is a poetic form that uses the numbers of a zip code to determine the number of words or syllables in each line of a poem. Each line's word or syllable count corresponds to the numbers in the zip code, creating a unique and personal poem about the poet's neighborhood or hometown. The zero in the zip code is not represented, only numbers from 1 -9 are used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The form is a great form for beginning creators and kids will love writing something unique and fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>10543 – Zip Ode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>By Ann Chiappetta<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>My<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>House by the harbor smelled<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>salty and fishy sometimes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I liked it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Repeating the pattern in multiple stanzas is a great way to expand the imagery and emotion of a remembered home and the feelings it provokes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>10801 Zip Ode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>floods <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>chased us from New Rochelle. Now Happier in western Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Heartlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dried our soggy spirits, warmed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chilled, exhausted attitudes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Home.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>15146 Zip Ode<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Three<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rivers, green pastures and steel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sharing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Quiet Nights with katydids<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And peaceful Mornings together sipping coffee. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ann M. Chiappetta, MS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>President, Friends In Art, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:president@friendsinart.org">president@friendsinart.org</a> <a href="http://www.friendsinart.org/">www.friendsinart.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>914.393.6605 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com/">www.annchiappetta.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><div style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 align=left><tr><td valign=top align=left style='padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'>"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-element-top:.05pt;mso-height-rule:exactly'>- Ray Bradbury<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>