Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic: snow storms.
Your form: cinq-cinquain.
Your topic: snow storms.
Your form: cinq-cinquain.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: leather and spurs Your form is: ballad
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: Darwin Your form is: haiku Form layout: Line One – Five Syllables Line Two – Seven Syllables Line Three – Five Syllables
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: being wound too tight Your form is: three stanzas of three lines each. Each a-line must start with a five letter word. Each b-line must start with an “s” word. Each c-line must use the last word of a-line within it. a b c a b c a…
Your topic is: men and women Your form is: Write a 12 line poem (divide into stanzas or not) and include one plural within each line.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: running in the rain. Your form is: one stanza of twelve lines. Every second line must be one word shorter than the last.
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…