Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: swimming with dolphins.
Your form is: haiku.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: swimming with dolphins.
Your form is: haiku.
For the poetry writers (even if don’t write poetry give it a try). Your topic is: flying on an airplane to a funeral. Your form is: lilibonelle.
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: hate speech. Your form is: abecedarian. Except instead of using the alphabet use each letter of the first line of poem.
Your topic: Breaking Loose. Your form: ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: being lost (can be emotional or physical or both). Your form is: minimum of three stanzas of three lines each. Each a-line must start with a five letter word. Each b-line must start with the same letter. Each c-line must use the last word of a-line within it….
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.