Firestarter Challenge (9/5/07)
Firestarter Challenge Week 9 Title: Truncated
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- First Line: (take a line from a famous poet and use that to jumpstart your poem. “He asked to be resurrected as a dolphin” from The Goldfish by David Hernandez from his Crab Orchard Award Series winning Always Danger. Red terror-level-highly recommended, especially with 4 copies at amazon for under $7.50.
- Syllabics: Write 2 eight lined stanzas with syllable counts at: 4-4-6-4-8-6-2 and 4-4-6-4-8-8-2.
- Color: Taupe.
- Rhyme: Use the following rhymes somewhere in your piece: ire/wire (throw in another ire somewhere in one of the lines too), awe/Arkansas and tenuous/mellifluous.
- Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: Every two seconds someone in the US needs blood.