Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: leather and spurs
Your form is: ballad
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: loss of power Your form is: cinquain Form layout: Line One – Two Syllables Line Two – Four Syllables Line Three – Six Syllables Line Four – Eight Syllables Line Five – Two Syllables Example by Adelaide Crapsey Listen… With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts,…
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For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: something hidden in tall grass. Your form is: one stanza of nine lines alternating five and seven words per line.
Your topic is the end of summer (or the beginning of fall). Your form is: carmina figurata Here’s and example, Robert Herrick’s The Pillar of Fame: Fame’s pillar here, at last, we set Out-during marble, brass, or jet, Charm’d and enchanted so As to withstand the blow Of overthrow: Nor shall the seas, Or OUTRAGES…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: hiding from… Your form is: Grossblank.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: ice fishing. Your form is: one stanza of as many lines you need to write and leave a circle in the middle to represent the hole cut in the ice. You can make…