Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic: self inflicted burns
Your form: sestina
Your topic is running off to Vegas. Your form is: Bridging Title.
Turn the television on. Jot down the first five full sentences you hear (don’t worry it doesn’t have to be perfect) from five channels. Don’t be picky use the first full lines you hear. Review the sentences and pick three consecutive words from each line. Rearrange them in to a poem adding words as necessary…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: the man in black. Your form is: one stanza of nine lines with no punctuation. Put an extra five spaces after each fifth word or eighth word.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a rusty chain. Your form is: three stanza of three lines each. The first word of the first line of each stanza must be the last word of the third line in the second and third stanza. The last one must scoop back around to the last line…
Your topic is: something we can’t live without. Your form is: Write a 12 line poem. Within each line there must be three words beginning with the same letter but each line must focus on a different letter. You can repeat one of the letters in the last line or repeat one of the lines…
For the poetry writers (even if don’t write poetry give it a try). Your topic is: foreign vacation. Your form is: Bouts-Rimes. And your seven rhyming words in order are: Bedsprings Ceilings Trappings Etchings Cravings Rumblings Heartstrings