Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: a French maid looking out a window
Your form is: Ballad
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: aches and pains. Your form is: eight stanzas with a minimum of three lines each. The last word of each stanza should rhyme with the last word of the following stanza.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: Things that make you go “Oh!” Your form is: Free write in fifteen minutes about one to five things that make you go “oh”. When you are done reform into and “O” shape.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: dewy mornings Your form is: conversational poem, 3 stanzas, have the person who starts the conversation end it Example: Like Day and Night Did you know it’s been dewy every morning? No, is that a problem? It’s not that it’s a problem. Really, it’s quite beautiful. Ah, the…
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: razors Your form is: pleiades
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)
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a woman with brown hair Your form is: Skeltonic Verse (each line has three to six words and the last word rhymes with the last word of the line prior. Go with the flow with the rhyming switching off when it feels right to you). Excerpt example from…