Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: a mother’s breast
Your form is: Waltz Wave
Your topic is: a mother’s breast
Your form is: Waltz Wave
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….
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: collections. Your form is: a sevenlings.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: posing as someone else. Your form is: three stanzas of six lines each. The last word of the first line of each stanza must begin the first line of the next stanza (the…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: unrequited love. Your form is: free write for fifteen minutes then develop it into a block poem of seven lines.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a brooding man. Your form is: free write with no capitals or punctuation use extra space for your pauses.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: stars and stripes. Your form is: haiku (5-7-5) x five stanzas.