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Creative Writing class....Poetry week
Last Friday, April 7 2017, my creative writing class was concerned with poetry.
I enjoy some poetry, mostly memorable ones from my childhood, especially "If" by Kipling, but, aside from one poem that I wrote for WM magazine competition, it is not an area I am overly familiar with.
Our first challenge was to write an acrostic poem. The word I chose as the basis for my poem and my initial intent when beginning to write it turned out very different in the end. The class left me very drained.
https://themoustachioedreader.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/acrostic-poem-01/We also tried our hand at haiku, tankas and thirteen word poems. My attempts at these are also on the blog.
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They are done a lot in schools so that children have a 'simple' structure to follow, but I think they can be difficult to get right.
A heartfelt acrostic, Kramer. Well done.