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: a ruthless man.
Your form is: villanelle.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise.
Your topic is: a ruthless man.
Your form is: villanelle.
Write a haiku about your favorite natural setting as a child.
Compose a poem using the following stanza formation and words. The words can be moved around within the line and you can change the tense of the word if necessary. The dots are used to designate new lines and are not to be used in your final piece: obsessive tourmaline wrought musing drive eye lonely…
Your topic is mossy trees. Your form is: couplet
Your topic: snow storms. 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.
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)