Poems Please

This post is by Sue Borgersen. A member of Pens Around the World in 2021 and 2022. Learn about Sue on our Friends of Pens page here.

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a poem pensive?

A few ideas for you here:

Write an acrostic poem of 9 lines using the word girandole.

Each line begins with the letters of the word G I R A N D O L E

The word can mean a rotating and radiating firework—it does have other meanings.

Let one of those be your theme

Or if you prefer:

Wampish

W A M P I S H

To wave about or flop to and fro

There is also a poetry competition running on Writers Magazine for a Triversen. You may need to look deeper into this modern poetry form.

In brief, a triversen has 6 stanzas of 3 lines and can use a layout of indenting the second and third line. There is also a dependence on counts of two, three, or four stressed syllables to each line.  This might explain it better.

Closing date 15 September. Enter online at www.writers-online.co.uk with the ref code: Aug21/Triversen

Good luck