I’m in a mood today, I guess. A slap happy mood, so today’s prompt might be as fun as I think it is, or it might be a great big fail. Here’s hoping everyone else is in a mood today too.
For today’s prompt, write a poem using three of the following six words:
- premium
- fertile
- translucence
- whirligig
- astronomical
- doublespeak
How did I come up with this list? Easy: I flipped through my big old dictionary at random and chose the first word that I saw on each page. Well, with one exception: I removed immunosorbent from the list, so folks who want a real challenge can incorporate that word (but I’m not).
Speaking of challenges: Why not write a poem with all six words (and/or seven)? Or hey, why not write a sestina with the six words as your end words? I told you I was in a mood.
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Here’s my attempt at a Three Out Of Six Words Poem:
“fertile doublespeak”
there’s no other way to relay it
the whole affair was a spectacle
& spun me ’round like a whirligig
so that before i could bicycle
outta there i was caught in a fence
that bent without astronomical
assistance as if my translucence
blocked out the light’s premium on switch
or as if ’twere immunosorbent
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community, which means he maintains this blog, edits a couple Market Books (Poet’s Market and Writer’s Market), writes a poetry column for Writer’s Digest magazine, leads online education, speaks around the country on publishing and poetry, and a lot of other fun writing-related stuff.
Yesterday, his daughter turned four, so everyone in the house was in a bit of silly mood. And he’s the author of Solving the World’s Problems.
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