Poetry Wednesdays
Your topic is a blood thirsty…
Your form is: pleiades
Your topic is: simplicity Your form is: Tanka — five lines with or without syllable counting 1. short line / 5 syllables 2. long line / 7 syllables 3. short line / 5 syllables 4. long line / 7 syllables 5. long line / 7 syllables Example: Is the inlaid box With a gilt hasp…
Your topic is kumquats in a red bowl on a table. Your form is: Narrative.
Your topic: candles. Your form: carmen figuratum (shape poetry).
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. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: Maggie’s Charm Bracelet. Your form is: seven stanzas, one for each charm on the bracelet.
Your topic is woman dancing with feathers. Your form is: cinq-cinquain