Contributed by:
Tabitha Dial, YourHub.com
Article Contributed on: 4/3/2006 3:16:12 PM
Everyone's creative. No really.
And everyone is familiar with poetry.
It being National Poetry Month, I'm posting a different
poetry prompt every Monday in April.
A poetry prompt helps you tap into the creative side of your
brain. To warm up or try something else, feel free to
play Poetry
Poker.
This poetry prompt you're now reading focuses on the acrostic
poem.
Caustic? Nah...! Acrostic
The basic acrostic is a poem where the first letters of each
line form a word or phrase when read from top to bottom. Do you see
the vertical word "our" in this acrostic?
Open your mind to the
Universe, and
Run back home and get your lunch. Juan Lugo
Now, if you don't have a word or phrase in mind for your
acrostic, choose one or more of these:
warm, cold, puppy, kitten, home, school, blanket, young and
old You can also use the name of your favorite tree, bird, color,
vehicle or place.
General acrostic information and
acrostic poem from
The Teachers and Writers
Handbook of Poetic Forms
edited by
Ron Padgett
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Let yourself write without stopping for three minutes.
In
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, Ron
Padgett said "The acrostic is good for developing mental and verbal
ability, especially when written at top speed. It is interesting to
turn a word or phrase on its side and see what spills out."
If you'd like, please
register so that you
can
post your
poetry, whether it "spilled out" from this prompt or
not.
The best poems, 20 lines or less, will be considered for
our print sections in April. To be considered for our April 13
edition, please post your poem by Thursday, April 6.