- Word prompt – Trust
- Form – Acrostic
- Device – Internal Rhyme
Writing 201 -Poetry provides a great opportunity for me to attempt something I’ve never tried before. For some reason, this 3rd assignment seemed to triple the difficulty for me. In a former life, I taught 5th grade Language Arts and we wrote our own form of acrostic poetry. Now it’s true these acrostic poems were name poems with one word lines; even so, I was hopeful this assignment might seem easier. Then, I added the word prompt, “trust” and my brain just froze. As I’ve shared, writing poetry is way out of my comfort zone; but I’m still going to share this rough draft of my first true acrostic poem. I definitely will continue working on this. — I’m not sure that I managed to add the internal rhyme in a proper format, yet.
Pretty words, flowing freely
Reaching straight to the heart.
Oh, so hopeful, just a bit wistful,
May it be totally truthful.
Imagination kindled dreams,
Stunned yet again. Oh, so hopeless.
Ever the fool to believe.
Thank you for letting me share my journey of learning to write poetry.
Do you write poetry? What’s your favorite form or device to use?