Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is: growing tomatoes.
Your form is: Write a 8 line poem (divide into 2 stanzas of unequal lines) without using the word “red”.
Your topic is: growing tomatoes.
Your form is: Write a 8 line poem (divide into 2 stanzas of unequal lines) without using the word “red”.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: white and red stripes. Your form is: Cinq-Cinquain.
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…
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: places that you have been Your form is: A list. Not just any list. They must relate in some way other than the obvious (the topic I’ve given you pretty much relates but see if you can find another relation as you write) and the list must be…
Your topic: weeping mothers Your form is: Write a three stanza poem with a spoonerism in the first one and it’s alternative in the third. Example of spoonerism: a shoving leopard / a loving shepherd (W.A. Spooner)
Your topic: self inflicted burns Your form: sestina
Take out a fresh worksheet and finish these five statements about your parents. Don’t read past the questions until you have finished them: I would thank my parents for… It was never easy talking to my parents about… I get the following traits from my parents… My parents and I never agreed on… I always…