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 the hole as big or as small as you like.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: today. Your form is: write a 43 word poem.
Your topic is: a young boy’s love for Peggy, Megan and Louise. Your form is: Ballad
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: sour milk and strained peaches. Your form is: one stanza of 9 lines. Following this rhyming pattern for the last word of each line. A – A B – B C – A…
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: making friends. Your form is: free write for fifteen minutes then develop it into a block poem.
Use the following five words to compose an eight line poem: pleasure, connection, assumptions, plan, black.