Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic: weeping mothers
Your form is: Write a three stanza poem with a spoonerism in the first one and it’s alternative in the third.
Example of spoonerism: a shoving leopard / a loving shepherd (W.A. Spooner)
Your topic: weeping mothers
Your form is: Write a three stanza poem with a spoonerism in the first one and it’s alternative in the third.
Example of spoonerism: a shoving leopard / a loving shepherd (W.A. Spooner)
Your topic is recapturing childhood. Your form is: one free writing stanza with no punctuation only extra spaces.
Your topic is: growing tomatoes. Your form is: Write a 8 line poem (divide into 2 stanzas of unequal lines) without using the word “red”.
Pick an emotion (i.e. joy). Use each letter to start off a new stanza. In each stanza refer to something that gives you that emotion. Each stanza can be as many lines as you like but more than one. Add a single line on the end and use the emotion word within it. Pull your…
Your topic is visual cues — do not use the words visual cues as you write. Your form is: free write one stanza of five full lines and each line continuing on to the next.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: healing hands Your form is: narrative
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: blonde curls and rose perfume. Your form is: haiku format (5, 7, 5) for three stanzas.