Poetry Challenge #124-Alphabet Riddlers
Remember the Jackson Five song ABC*? “A-B-C/1-2-3/Baby, You and Me . . . keep tapping those tootsie’s as we wind up for a real riddler of a prompt:
Poetry Challenge #124
Alphabet Riddle Poems Easy as ABC
Many forms of poetry are like puzzles—you try to fit the right words into a certain order or have the right number of beats/syllables on each line. Here are four poetry puzzles. Choose one to solve today and come back to this when you’re stuck for a topic some other day.
Can you use every letter of the alphabet in a poem? The letter can appear anywhere in the word and can be in any order.
For the next puzzle, you need to use a word starting with each letter of the alphabet in order. You can add other words between your words to help your poem make sense.
How about starting each line with a letter of the alphabet? How long a poem can you make that makes some sense?
Pick one letter. Can you write a poem using twenty words that begin with that letter?
Set your timer for 7 minutes
Don’t think about it too much; just do it!
Start writing!
Alphabet Riddlers Playlist:
Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 1350 consecutive days—120 weekly shared 7-Minute Challenges ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. (This one is Cindy’s.) If you join us by writing a poem, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.
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