30 Days of Poetry-Day 14

Formula poems help you use language effectively. Knowing grammar and literary terms helps you to write vivid poems that show your reader a mental image. The better your reader can see what you are talking about, the more s/he will like it.

Formulas:

Title: Noun
#1: Verb
#2: Verb phrase
#3: Three adjectives

Title: Participle
#1: Three nouns that do it
#2: Two adjectives
#3: Simile

Title: Earliest Memory
#1: Adverb (where)
#2: Doing what
#3: Two or three words showing emotion
#4: Detail from the setting
#5: Skip a line
#6: Tell how you feel

PAPA VINC
Can you guess what the eight letters
of PAPA VINC stand for?
Write eight lines,
beginning each one
with a different
part of speech.

Samples:

Title: Giraffes
#1: Munching
#2: Loping in the grass
#3: Stately, long-necked, silent.

Title: Jumping
#1: Frogs, kangaroos, Mexican beans
#2: Happy, playful
#3: Like a single heart

Title: Earliest Memory
#1: At the easel
#2: Painting a sailboat
#3: Intense, quiet, relaxed
#4: Too much water on the brush
#5:
#6: Frustrated!

Wow!
Clouds
are floating
across the blue sky
anxiously reminding
all of us
to smile.

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30 Days of Poetry - Day 14