Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: a French maid looking out a window
Your form is: Ballad
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: riding across country on a motorcycle. Your form is: write two stanzas using the rhyming form of ottavia rima. If the momentum suits go longer. If you want to try and further your challenge keep each line to eleven syllables. a b a b a b c c…
For the poetry writers (even if don’t write poetry give it a try). Your topic is: first concert with a friend. Your form is: chant.
Your topic is: the rhythm of a relationship between a man and woman. Your form is: 7 line stanza — the last word of the preceding line starts the next. Example: In the deep dark ground Ground full of life and death Death of relatives and buddies…etc.
Use the following five words to write a poem: inventing, cloths, knuckles, roots, fences
Your topic: self inflicted burns Your form: sestina
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: a poem you wrote yesterday. Your form is: Oulipo.