Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: loons on a lake.
Your form is: haiku.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: today. Your form is: write a 43 word poem.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: old men playing chess in the park. Your form is: cinq-cinquain.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: a hypochondriac. Your form is: three stanzas — 3 lines, 5 lines, 3 lines.
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.
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.
Use the partial phrase, “fancy does you good” at least three times in a five stanza poem. You can use any variation of the phrase that you wish but it must appear three times in three separate stanzas.