If you want to learn a little more about me, that’s easy to do. Dustin Brookshire is sharing poet profiles on his blog this month, and recently posted a profile of me.
Today is our second Tuesday of the month, which means it’s Two-for-Tuesday day.
Here are the two prompts for today:
- Write a sonnet. I know some folks will say a writing a form is not a prompt, but I often use forms to prompt me into poems. And I know that some folks will say they hate traditional forms. Soooo, the other prompt is to…
- Write an anti-form poem. Write about your dislike of poetic forms. Let it all out.
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Here’s my attempt at a Sonnet and/or Anti-Form Poem:
“no forms”
believe me when i say
with no shame or regret
that i’m anti-sonnet
& against triolet
because forms hide my voice
behind layered structures
blinding me with textures
forced without any choice
for instance i must rhyme
in elaborate ways
about evenings & days
that pass measured by time
which forces me to think
& thinking kind of stinks
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He actually does like to think and play around with poetic forms, including sonnets.
Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.
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