Pouring
Flooding
Raging
Drowning
Wicked storm is pouring, flooding me
becoming a raging, drowning sea
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| Writing Prompt |
Write a tyburn poem.
A six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables.
The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.
Example #1:
Death
Blackest
Darkest
Coldest
Oldest
Burning in the Blackest, Darkest night
There in lives the Coldest, Oldest fright
Copyright © 2001 Mike McCann
Example #2:
-Mindless Love-
Loveless
Hopeless
Darkness
Mindless
Dead heart feeling Loveless, Hopeless mind,
True loves to the Darkness, Mindless find.
Copyright © 2004 Peter A. Rosado
Example #3:
Myself
Sowing,
Hoeing,
Growing,
Mowing,
Planting gardens, sowing, hoeing grounds.
Sunshine keeps all growing, mowing mounds.
Copyright © 2004 Marion Gibson
-no author's notes
-no special effects whatsoever
-no videos, animation or music
-only fs basic or advanced editor
-two color presentation (one for text, one for background)
-one illustration allowed (optional)
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