7-Minute Poetry Challenge Kelly Bennett 7-Minute Poetry Challenge Kelly Bennett

Poetry Challenge #163-The Answer is always Chocolate!

Now, what’s your question?

As if we need an excuse It’s National Chocolate Day. Yep! An entire 24 hours, 1440 minutes, not to mention seconds! At 1 chocolatey nibble per second that’s 86,400 nibbles! That’s my kind of day!

Like Willie Wonka, I think of the chocolate factory with chocolate trees and rivers. I imagine everything you can dip in chocolate.

My VCFA class, “Unreliable Narrators” splurged on a chocolate fountain, gobbled obscene quantities of chocolate dipped strawberries, marshmallows, cake, grahams, carrots, celery, radish . . . after donated it to the school. Writers require chocolate…

My VCFA class, “Unreliable Narrators” splurged on a chocolate fountain, gobbled obscene quantities of chocolate dipped strawberries, marshmallows, cake, grahams, carrots, celery, radish . . . after donated it to the school. Writers require chocolate PRN!

Poetry Challenge #163

The Answer is Always Chocolate

Write an acrostic poem, using the letters

C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E as the first letter in each line.

Your poem can be about chocolate or candy or anything else you want it to be—as long as it’s ooey, gooey delicious!

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing

Don’t Think Too Much About it; just indulge!

Chocolate as good to read as it is to nibble! & If you like yours chocolate dark, dip into Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War

Post a review, I’ll give you a glug!

Post a review, I’ll give you a glug!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than SIXTEEN HUNDRED days ago! (without a miss!!!) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. 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. And scroll down for my happy news:

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Poetry Challenge #119-Iridescence of Lights

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And so it is this year as Hanukkah (Dec 22-30)

Christmas (Dec. 25),

and Kwanzaa (Dec 26-Jan 1)

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converge, we are smack dab in the midst of the festivities. One way these holidays are celebrated is with lights! Lights! Lights! Lights!

Poetry Challenge #119

Iridescence of Lights

In celebration of the holidays, write an acrostic poem about your holiday traditions. An acrostic poem uses the letter of a topic word or words to create a poem.

1. Write the word “Light” (or another holiday-related word) vertically down the length of a page.

2. For each letter, write a related word or idea beginning with that letter extending out horizontally.

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3. Take a few moments to refine your poem. Try adding or changing some words to add interest, rhythm or rhyme to your poem.

4. Select your favorite word or image to be the title of your poem.

Below is my effort entitled (predictably) LIGHTS!

LIGHTS!

Luminous
Iridescent rainbow
Glimmering strands of
Holiday magic
Twinkling 
Stars show the way home

Set your timer for 7 minutes

Don’t think about it too much; just do it!

Start writing!

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Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 1300 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. (This one is Cindy’s.) If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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