10 Word Challenge

I actually stole this lesson idea from Mark V (notice I am giving him credit to him) at the Starlite Cafe.  He puts up 10 New Words every week as a challenge to writers.  The goal is to use 10 seemingly unrelated words in a poem each week.  It can be a true challenge to use the words each week and have a poem that makes sense.  I went through some of the lists and culled ones that I think are interesting and do-able for beginning poets.  

If you want more, check out the Starlite Cafe.  I took a course for my MFA in Creative Writing program at Hamline University and Juliet Patterson gave us an assignment very similar to the 10 Word Challenge:  (1) an obscure African country; (2) a vegetable; (3) a constellation; (4) something about your home town; (5) a window; (6) a cutting or punching tool; (7) a stamp; (8) an artist; and (9) a ship or boat.

10 Word Challenge

- apron
- bell
- cocoon
- enough
- face
- handle
- juice
- moist
- pulse
- waft

- book
- charm
- encore
- flourish
- harden
- kilter
- ocean
- possible
- refresh
- variety

- ashtray
- bond
- clairvoyant
- full
- hasty
- jocund
- luminary
- opaque
- pierce
- static

- azure
- blue
- chocolate
- gold
- ivory
- lavender
- lime
- opaque
- tan
- violet

- age-old
- bearing
- crisp
- dainty
- fragile
- juvenile
- mould
- ragged
- quilt
- torrent

- icon
- ideate
- iffy
- illume
- imbrue
- impish
- incise
- ingle
- inward
- issue

- abrasive
- charm
- concave
- eligible
- fulfill
- herd
- lave
- modify
- primeval
- shadow

- backer
- birth
- contain
- discern
- inner
- matrix
- nitty-gritty
- prattle
- satisfy
- truce

- apparition
- blue
- carnival
- froth
- grain
- milkshake
- moth
- sculpture
- tinkle
- weather

- jacket
- jade
- jangle
- jaunt
- jet
- jewel
- jiggery-pokery
- jolly
- journal
- juxtapose

- blossom
- comb
- dose
- fireside
- hoop
- monitor
- remote
- shapeable
- torrid
- wince

- keen
- keepsake
- kerb
- keynote
- kid
- kilter
- kink
- knack
- knead
- kowtow

- chant
- deadline
- falter
- handle
- magnet
- practice
- retire
- sorrow
- tangent
- warble

- border
- brew
- conform
- dive
- fizzle
- gird
- maze
- offer
- seam
- twinkle

- age
- blink
- clock
- enlarge
- habit
- lumber
- ordinary
- public
- refine
- ultimate

- age
- cater
- decide
- favor
- jingle
- land
- mope
- part
- question
- rise

- bridle
- chip
- equinox
- gossamer
- jazz
- live
- monotone
- owl
- rapture
- thoughtful

- labor
- language
- laugh
- leather
- level
- lift
- limit
- location
- lump
- lyrical

- beef
- cache
- contrast
- extend
- goodwill
- lump
- moment
- premium
- ring
- trickle

- afford
- combust
- dash
- emerald
- hamper
- luminance
- notch
- pollute
- sentimental
- wind

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