Firestarter Challenge (10/7/07)
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. “There is a fork in the branch” from The Perch by Galway Kinnell.
- Syllabics: Write tercets with syllable counts alternating between : 6-6-10 and 4-4-8.
- Color: Spring Green.
- Rhyme: Use the following rhymes somewhere in your piece: June/strewn and turbulent/firmament.
- Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: Every year people in the US suffer 1 billion colds (cough, sore throat etc, not brr, it’s cold).