Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: flying back home to see a loved one.
Your form is: Villanelle.
Your topic is: flying back home to see a loved one.
Your form is: Villanelle.
Your topic: the secret society that children have amongst themselves. Your form: cinq-cinquain.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: this is how we… Your form is: twelve lines — you decide on the number of stanzas. At least four lines must contain the topic starter.
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: 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)
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: If Pandora’s Box contained crime, poverty, pain, hunger, sickness, vice create another box with contains the opposite. Your form is: Do a quick list of opposites to the items in Pandora’s box. Each…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: unrequited love. Your form is: free write for fifteen minutes then develop it into a block poem of seven lines.