Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic: green fingers.
Your form: five Pantoum stanzas.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: lawnmowers and summer haze. Your form is: three stanzas of three lines each. The last word of the first line of each stanza must be the first word of the third line in the second and third stanza. The last one must scoop back around to the last…
Use the following five words to write a poem: inventing, cloths, knuckles, roots, fences
Your topic: Breaking Loose. Your form: ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: crinolines and hoops. Your form is: five stanzas of four lines each. The second stanza must be smaller than the first and the third must be smaller than the second. Increase the fourth…
Your topic: it does not have to be the main topic but you must mention the word “unicorn”. Your form is: Write a three stanza poem with a spoonerism in the first one and its alternative in the third. Example of spoonerism: a shoving leopard / a loving shepherd (W.A. Spooner)
Your topic: the secret society that children have amongst themselves. Your form: cinq-cinquain.