Poetry Wednesdays Writing Prompt
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise.
Your topic is: yearning for spring.
Your form is: Whitney.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: plaid shirts and wool ties. Your form is: Free write for fifteen minutes about the topic and then go through and pick out especially good sentences (or phrases) and make them into a…
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: red boots. Your form is: one stanza of four lines. The last word of each line should be repeated some where within the next line.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: enjoying speed. Your form is: free write for ten minutes then read it over drawing out the best points and arranging the words into a sharp point using how many words necessary to create the peak. It can be a short peak like shown or wider. a aa…
Compose a poem using these five words: down, equal, refine, ideas, query
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 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…