Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is mossy trees.
Your form is: couplet
Your topic is: swimming at the lake. Your form is: whitney
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: lying in a field of wheat. Your form is: five lines using the letters of the word wheat as a starting point. W H E A T
Write a poem about a childhood friend. Include seven stanzas, one for each day of the week, and make a personal reference to your friend in each one. Title the poem after an activity you enjoyed doing together.
Compose a poem using the following stanza formation and words. The words can be moved around within the line and you can change the tense of the word if necessary. The dots are used to designate new lines and are not to be used in your final piece: obsessive tourmaline wrought musing drive eye lonely…
Your topic: it does not have to be the main topic but you must mention the word “unicorn”. Your form is: Write a three stanza poem with a spoonerism in the first one and its alternative in the third. Example of spoonerism: a shoving leopard / a loving shepherd (W.A. Spooner)
Randomly rip a sheet out of an old magazine (a text page, not an image page) cut it into 20 strips lengthwise and then gather the strips together and cut across thirty times. Put the pieces in a cup. Pull out 15 pieces and lay them in front of you so the text is upright….