I learned some things from this prompt, from POETRYisEVERYTHING — so I thought I’d share it on my blog. (I didn’t know that acrostics occur in Proverbs, Psalms, and Lamentations.) You’ll find my acrostic at the end. PROMPT 18 – Acrostic Poem Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; […]
The prompt today is to write a poem inspired by hands. (For more details, go to POETRYisEVERYTHING.) I am reading a novel in which the characters recognize one another not by their faces, not by their expressive eyes, their noses, their lips, not even by height or the color of their hair or the sound of their […]
Today Chris’s POETRYisEVERYTHING linked me to another blog, elsewhere in the rain, which in turn introduced me to an Irish form, Ae Freislighe (aye-fresh-lee), which has four lines (perhaps more than one stanza) of seven syllables each and an A, B, A, B rhyme scheme. The blogger, Brendan McBreen, further explains that the end rhyming […]
As I didn’t do a great job of writing my ghazal (mine is not syllabic, for instance), I thought I’d direct you to Chris Jarmick’s prompt for today’s poem. I’ve always wanted to try a cross-out. I’m not satisfied with the result, but I am inspired to try more of them. And maybe it’s […]