Contributed by:
Tabitha Dial, YourHub.com
Article Contributed on: 4/10/2006 9:17:17 AM
To recognize National Poetry Month, I'm posting a different
poetry prompt each Monday in April. Feel free to see what I've done
with
Poetry
Poker and
acrostic
poetry.
Dear reader,
This week, I'm encouraging you to try to write a poem in the
form of a letter. When we compose a letter, we write in a personal,
perhaps rather simple tone that we don't often think to use when we
commit ourselves to writing poetry.
Here are some ideas you can use to get your own letter poem
started.
| Write a letter to a future child, grandchild or friend,
explaining something you want them to know about your past-what it
was like growing up or being alive for a historic (personal, local,
global) event.
Or write a letter poem to explain to a real or imaginary person
why you love a particular pastime or type of music or sport or
musical group or sports team, how its presence shaped the behavior
of people in your life, how its presence shaped you. Inspired by Ron Padgett's entry on the Apostrophe poem
in
The Teachers & Writers
Handbook of Poetic Forms. |
Happy writing.
Please
register so
that you can
post
your poetry.
The best poems, 20 lines or less, will be considered for our
print sections in April. To be considered for our April 20 edition,
please post your poem by Thursday, April 13.
Thanks for the read.