Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: racing through town.
Your form is: conversational poem, 3 stanzas, have the person who starts the conversation end it.
For the poetry writers.
Your topic is: racing through town.
Your form is: conversational poem, 3 stanzas, have the person who starts the conversation end it.
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…
Your topic: the secret society that children have amongst themselves. Your form: cinq-cinquain.
Use the partial phrase, โfancy does you goodโ at least three times in a five stanza poem. You can use any variation of the phrase that you wish but it must appear three times in three separate stanzas.
Your topic is: something we can’t live without. Your form is: Write a 12 line poem. Within each line there must be three words beginning with the same letter but each line must focus on a different letter. You can repeat one of the letters in the last line or repeat one of the lines…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Write a poem using the words in the following two stanzas. The word does not have to be first in line but do not switch between lines. The title is a suggestion and can be changed…
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…