Poetry Wednesday
Your topic is: stained glass.
Your form is: Waltz wave
Your topic is: stained glass.
Your form is: Waltz wave
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: long eyelashes Your form is: Lune (the English alternative to the Japanese Haiku) Brief description: 13 syllable (5 / 3 / 5) with no capitals or punctuation. Topic is not limited to nature. ex: they are given to hold close, not air, not each other * reference: Handbook…
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…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: accidental death. Your form is: five stanza of three lines each. Each line no longer than six words (not including one or two letter words).
Mark Twain said, “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” Write an eight line poem about wrinkles. Don’t go for the obvious choice.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: If Pandora’s Box contained crime, poverty, pain, hunger, sickness, vice create another box with contains the opposite. Your form is: Do a quick list of opposites to the items in Pandora’s box. Each…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: lying in a field of wheat. Your form is: five lines using the letters of the word wheat as a starting point. W H E A T