Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: razors
Your form is: pleiades
Your topic is: loons on a lake. Your form is: haiku.
Your topic: the blood of men. Your form: three Sapphic stanzas.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: the art of punishing a child. Your form is: ghazal
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: the thin red line. Your form is: free from it.
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.
Use the following five words to compose an eight line poem: pleasure, connection, assumptions, plan, black.