Pick an emotion (i.e. joy). Use each letter to start off a new stanza. In each stanza refer to something that gives you that emotion. Each stanza can be as many lines as you like but more than one. Add a single line on the end and use the emotion word within it. Pull your title from the last line.
Example
emotion: joy
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For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: geography. Your form is: Haiku with a twist. Think more suburban nature than traditional nature.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: making friends. Your form is: free write for fifteen minutes then develop it into a block poem.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: a ruthless man. Your form is: villanelle.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: old men playing chess in the park. Your form is: cinq-cinquain.
Your topic is a blood thirsty… Your form is: pleiades
Your topic is road maps. Your form is: acrostic verse