The Pictorial, created by Emily Romano is a type of shape poem, where the entire poem must be printed in slanting lines indicative of the thought in those lines. The poem should consist of three lines with five words or less per line. There should be rhyme somewhere in the poem, either end rhyme or internal rhyme.

Example #1:

See                       and                         rippling
      how                      how                               like
             the                        the                                waves
                  roof                       sunlight                             along
                         slopes                          follows                          hollows


Copyright © 2007 Emily Romano

Example #2:

                    shows                       rows:                     glows!
           moon                     beyond                 pumpkin
Rising                      rows                      each


Copyright © 2007 Emily Romano

Example #3:

Migration (Double Pictorial)


The                            my                            for                      that
    skies                         soul                           it                         all
         are                         seeks                         is                        cares
            where                      peace                      there                      cease.


            sees                        flight                        geese                     right.
         one                        shaped                       of                        seems
    when                         v-                            flocks                   world
For                             the                           of                       the	


Copyright © 2007 Jan Turner