Firestarter Challenge (8/19/07)
Firestarter Challenge Week 2 Title: Thursday, 3am
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- Color: Mauve.
- Imagery: Taste of apple pie ala mode.
- Form- Basic: Abecedarian. Here’s how to write an abecedarian, but basically, it’s a 26 lined poem, the first line’s first letter is A, second line’s second letter is B and so on.
- Form- Complex: Write a Double Abecedarian, and not just two abecedarians in a row, but as the first letters go down the alphabet, the last letters of the line are climbing it, so the last letter of the first line is Z last letter of the second line is Y etc. An example is Julie Larios’ poem “Double Abecedarian: Please Give Me” which was featured in Best American Poetry 2006 edited by the wonderful Billy Collins.
- Theme: Love lost.
February 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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