For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise.
Your topic is: this is how we…
Your form is: twelve lines — you decide on the number of stanzas. At least four lines must contain the topic starter.
Your topic is a silver goblet. Your form is: whitney
For the poetry writers (even if don’t write poetry give it a try). Your topic is: foreign vacation. Your form is: Bouts-Rimes. And your seven rhyming words in order are: Bedsprings Ceilings Trappings Etchings Cravings Rumblings Heartstrings
Your topic is: Peggy’s Cove 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: a hypochondriac. Your form is: three stanzas — 3 lines, 5 lines, 3 lines.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: a brooding man. Your form is: free write with no capitals or punctuation use extra space for your pauses.
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…