For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise.
Write a poem using the words in the following two stanzas. The word does not have to be first in line but do not switch between lines. The title is a suggestion and can be changed only when you are finished.
Burnt Houses
gold
tamer
rice
fierce
range
separate
Your topic: the blood of men. Your form: three Sapphic stanzas.
Your topic is recapturing childhood. Your form is: one free writing stanza with no punctuation only extra spaces.
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.
Mark Twain said, “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” Write an eight line poem about wrinkles. Don’t go for the obvious choice.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: who the future belongs to. Your form is: conversational poem, 3 stanzas, have the person who starts the conversation end it.
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)