Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: the sorrow of a broken heel.
Your form is: Villanelle.
Your topic is: the sorrow of a broken heel.
Your form is: Villanelle.
Your topic: mornings with a loved one. Your form: thirteen lines — using a number or referring to a number on each line.
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…
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: something hidden in tall grass. Your form is: one stanza of nine lines alternating five and seven words per line.
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: the smell of bacon and the clink of dishes. Your form is: four stanzas of three lines each. Each line should be at least nine words long.