For the poetry writers. Your topic is: dewy mornings Your form is: conversational poem, 3 stanzas, have the person who starts the conversation end it Example: Like Day and Night Did you know it’s been dewy every morning? No, is that a problem? It’s not that it’s a problem. Really, it’s quite beautiful. Ah, the…
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: little girls in pink frills Your form is: Villanelle (see form layout below) Form Layout: Line One Line Two Line Three Line Four Rhymes with Line One Line Five Rhymes with Line Two Line Six Same as Line One Line Seven Rhymes with Line One Line Eight Rhymes…
Randomly rip a sheet out of an old magazine (a text page, not an image page) cut it into 20 strips lengthwise and then gather the strips together and cut across thirty times. Put the pieces in a cup. Pull out 15 pieces and lay them in front of you so the text is upright….
Your topic: the blood of men. Your form: three Sapphic stanzas.
Your topic is: being able to depending on someone. Your form is: etheree
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…
Your topic is a grandparent(s). Your form is: acrostic verse
Compose a poem using these five words: down, equal, refine, ideas, query