For the poetry writers. Your topic is: red boots.
Your form is: one stanza of four lines. The last word of each line should be repeated some where within the next line.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: swimming with dolphins.
Your form is: haiku.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: the effects of commercialism on young women.
Your form is: free write for ten minutes then read it over drawing out the best points and arranging the words into a sharp point using how many words necessary to create the peak.
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For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a rusty chain.
Your form is: three stanza of three lines each. The first word of the first line of each stanza must be the last word of the third line in the second and third stanza. The last one must scoop back around to the last line of the first stanza.
1 – A
2
3 – C
1 – B
2
3 – A
1 – C
2
3 – B
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: holding hands with someone you care about.
Your form is: free verse.
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 “Jumping the Gun on the Sun
…Make your love
on earth above,
home of the brave,
Save yr grave
for future days
Present here,
nothing to fear
No need to sigh
no need to die
before your time
mentally whine
stupidly dine
on your own meat
That’s what’s neat
Mortally great
Immortally sweet
Incredibly deep
makes you weep
Just this once
Don’t be a dunce…
* reference: Handbook of Poetic Forms
Your topic: weeping mothers
Your form is: Write a three stanza poem with a spoonerism in the first one and it’s alternative in the third.
Example of spoonerism: a shoving leopard / a loving shepherd (W.A. Spooner)
Your topic: self inflicted burns
Your form: sestina
Your topic is: men and women
Your form is: Write a 12 line poem (divide into stanzas or not) and include one plural within each line.
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 last line.
Your topic is: the rhythm of a relationship between a man and woman.
Your form is: 7 line stanza — the last word of the preceding line starts the next.
Example:
In the deep dark ground
Ground full of life and death
Death of relatives and buddies…etc.
Your topic is: spring’s first bloom.
Your form is: use the following letters to start each line.
Line One: H
Line Two: O
Line Three: T
Line Four: S
Line Five: H
Line Six: O
Line Seven: T
Line Eight: S
Line Nine: S
Line Ten: T
Line Eleven: E
Line Twelve: O
