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 poem you wrote yesterday.
Your form is: Oulipo.
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. 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: leather and spurs Your form is: ballad
Your topic is road maps. Your form is: acrostic verse
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: taxes. Your form is: one stanza of ten lines with no cliches.
Turn the television on. Jot down the first five full sentences you hear (don’t worry it doesn’t have to be perfect) from five channels. Don’t be picky use the first full lines you hear. Review the sentences and pick three consecutive words from each line. Rearrange them in to a poem adding words as necessary…