Sympathy
accord, rapport
caring, recognizing, supporting
compassion, benevolence, singlemindedness, distant
ignoring, unseeing, uncaring
insensitive, blind
Apathy
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dVerse Poets Pub — Poetics | Flipping Meanings
Tonight at dVerse Lisa challenges us to play ‘The Opposite Game’ and Flip the Meanings of poems.
I chose to create a poem using the Diamante form which goes as follows:
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject
As its name suggests, a Diamante forms a diamond shape when done.
Raivenne-lations 
We need more of the former and less of the latter in order to fix the world! Well written.
So true, Ingrid. So true.
I like your chosen opposites and how you took it from the positive to the negative pole as it really makes us feel the impact
Thank you! Apathy is the lowest form.
Raivenne, the word that jumped out at me in this was the singlemindedness of apathy. It makes me think of a programmed robot 😦 You chose two very rich words to write to that shows why one is healthy and one is unhealthy.
Thank you, Msjadeli. I chose singlemindedness as the linchpin to flip things because I read it two ways: two sympathic minds joined in one thought and you did, in having no thought for others.
You are welcome. Makes perfect sense.
This is gorgeously rendered! We need more sympathy, more fellow feeling in this world! 💝💝
Thanks, Sanaa.
I really like the details you have here – the distant at the far reach from apathy, the way the words sound (“accord, rapport”) – it’s given me a lot to think about. And looking at the first and last lines, I’m wondering how/if might also be constructed as a reverso poem…
A reverso poem, hmm… It probably could with a little reworking. Thanks.
I do love this form. Your illustration is perfect and you nailed the two words in this format. I think I feel better when I read it from the bottom up. Too much of society has gone from caring to apathy…and you’ve nailed that progression here. Would that we could light a fire under people at the bottom of they pyre and wake them up to caring again!
Would that we could light a fire indeed. Thanks, Lillian.