Poetry Challenge #227-Popcorn

I’m missing movie popcorn: light, airy, crunchy, salty, buttery bites that grease up your dry skin. Mmmmm! And makes movie-watching oh so tasty!

The first single pops that grow faster and faster until clouds of popped corn flow over the sides of the pan.

Those red and white striped cardboard containers that pop into shape. Or the waxed bags filled until one more piece can’t balance. The smell! The taste!

 Poetry Challenge #227

Movie Popcorn

Think of something you miss. Maybe it’s a favorite food. Maybe it’s summer since it’s January. Maybe it’s the sun on a cloudy day. Maybe it’s a friend or relative or pet.

Whatever it is, write an acrostic poem about it using the letters POPCORN as the first letters for your seven lines.

Be descriptive. Make your reader miss the thing too.

“Each acrostic poem has a topic idea running down the left side of the poem. Each letter in the topic word has a new thought that runs off the side from left to right and is relevant to the topic word. The topic word is typically the title as well.”—definition and examples on KidZonePoetry

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing!

Don’t Think About it, just do it!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge 2000+ days ago. Now we take turns creating prompts to share with you. Our hope is that creatives—children & adults—will use our prompts as springboards to word play time. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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