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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,…
For the poetry writers (even if you don’t write poetry give it a try). Your topic is: something you cannot live without. Your form is: pleiades.
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…
For the poetry writers (even if you do not write poetry give it a try). Your topic is: apples. Well sort of. Your form is: Choose at least 7 apple names from this variety list. Use the names of seven varieties of apples to write about nothing to do with apples — that’s how fun…
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a woman with brown hair Your form is: Skeltonic Verse (each line has three to six words and the last word rhymes with the last word of the line prior. Go with the flow with the rhyming switching off when it feels right to you). Excerpt example from…
Randomly rip a sheet out of an old magazine (a text page, not an image page) cut it into 20 strips lengthwise and then gather the strips together and cut across thirty times. Put the pieces in a cup. Pull out 15 pieces and lay them in front of you so the text is upright….