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This week's challenge
Five Word Poetry: Five words will be selected (usually two concrete nouns, an abstract noun, a verb, and an adjective). You will then write a poem using those five words.
The word set is: passion, prize, hand, approve, comic, compatible -
This week's challenge.
Poet to Poet: A poem by a published poet will be selected. The challenge will be to write a response to it. It can be a parody or an answer or an agreement or disagreement. You may mimic the form of the original or use whatever form (or lack of form) you wish.
Remembrance
Cold in the earth-and the deep snow piled above thee ( Read more... ) -
This week's challenge
Hm. I just noticed that I neglected to post the challenge in the community last time; I sent it to my own journal. So here it is again, this time in the right place:
Five Word Poetry: Five words will be selected (usually two concrete nouns, an abstract noun, a verb, and an adjective). You will then write a poem using those five words ( Read more... ) -
This week's challenge
Hey guys, I'm going to start putting up new challenges on Saturday instead of Sunday. It's easier to get the time to go somewhere with wi-fi to do it.
Anyway, here's this week's challenge:
Visual Verses: A picture will be selected, either a photograph or a painting or drawing. It may be artistic or not. Use the picture as inspiration for a poem ( Read more... ) -
This Week's Challenge! (sorry for being a day late)
Poetry 101: A form, style, or some other poetic function will be posted, and your challenge will be to write an example of it.
Okay, this week let's try a Petrarchan sonnet. A Petrarchan sonnet is a sonnet on unattainable love. It's a standard sonnet in that it has 14 lines. The first eight lines (the "octave") has the rhyme scheme abbaabba, and ( Read more... ) -
This week's challenge
Hey guys, sorry I missed this last week. Anyway, here's a challenge for this week:
Poet to Poet: A poem by a published poet will be selected. The challenge will be to write a response to it. It can be a parody or an answer or an agreement or disagreement. You may mimic the form of the original or use whatever form (or lack of form) you wish ( Read more... ) -
This week's challenge
Five Word Poetry: Five words will be selected (usually two concrete nouns, an abstract noun, a verb, and an adjective). You will then write a poem using those five words.
shore, weapon, contingency, snarl, proud -
This week's challenge
Visual Verses: A picture will be selected, either a photograph or a painting or drawing. It may be artistic or not. Use the picture as inspiration for a poem.
Here's the picture (courtesy of public-domain-image.com):
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This week's challenge
Poetry 101: A form, style, or some other poetic function will be posted, and your challenge will be to write an example of it. (I will try to keep them fairly easy, so there's no need to panic over this one.)
This week, let's try a terza rima. You can click the link for the Wikipedia entry on it, but basically it is a series of three line ( Read more... )
