04-16-2020, 10:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-16-2020, 10:19 AM by Quixilated.)
Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month. Anyone is allowed to contribute a poem at any time.
Topic: Death by Words (courtesy of 2018 IISZ Challenge prompt)
Write a poem, prose-poem, or prose piece which contains 17 or more of the 69 words below:
(Gender, tense, and plurality may be changed.)
The 69 words:
awesome, blind, bloody, bunny, burden,
burning, cherish, crazy, cruel, cute,
daredevil, darling, desire, destiny, devastate,
disgrace, doom, drown, emptiness, eternity,
extinction, fool, forever, grief, guilt,
harmony, heavenly, hotheaded, hugs, humiliation,
icy, immortality, infinite, joy, karma,
kiss, kitten, kooky, loathing, longing,
millstone, miracle, misery, moon, oath,
oblivion, paralysis, passion, puppy, pure,
rose, sacred, sacrifice, savage, serendipity,
shame, shattering, slaughter, slave, sweetheart,
tears, torture, trauma, venomous, victim,
weak, worry, wound, wrenching
Form: any
Lines: 8 or more
Questions?
Topic: Death by Words (courtesy of 2018 IISZ Challenge prompt)
Write a poem, prose-poem, or prose piece which contains 17 or more of the 69 words below:
(Gender, tense, and plurality may be changed.)
The 69 words:
awesome, blind, bloody, bunny, burden,
burning, cherish, crazy, cruel, cute,
daredevil, darling, desire, destiny, devastate,
disgrace, doom, drown, emptiness, eternity,
extinction, fool, forever, grief, guilt,
harmony, heavenly, hotheaded, hugs, humiliation,
icy, immortality, infinite, joy, karma,
kiss, kitten, kooky, loathing, longing,
millstone, miracle, misery, moon, oath,
oblivion, paralysis, passion, puppy, pure,
rose, sacred, sacrifice, savage, serendipity,
shame, shattering, slaughter, slave, sweetheart,
tears, torture, trauma, venomous, victim,
weak, worry, wound, wrenching
Form: any
Lines: 8 or more
Questions?