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

Poetry Challenge #161-Love Me Some D-E-S-S-E-R-T

Crumpet, Pumpkin, Sugar, Cupcake, Sweetie…the variety of ways we call loved ones by dessert names make me want to burst into song: Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch…Can’t help myself!

Especially not today, Oct. 14th, officially, unapologetically, National Dessert Day! Or, as I prefer to call it, Don’t Forget What Erma Said Day:

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. ~ Erma Bombeck

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7-Minute Poetry Challenge #161

Love Me Some D-E-S-S-E-R-T

Dessert! There’s always room for dessert! Cindy’s niece and nephew say everyone has a dessert stomach separate from their very full dinner stomachs. If you ask my kids if they have room for dessert, the standard answer is “YES! And it’s shaped just like an ice cream cone!”

List as many kinds of dessert as you can think of. Put your list into some sort of order: biggest to smallest? best to worst? colors of the rainbow? alphabetical?

Write a 2-4 line refrain to stick into your list a couple times.

This will be a sweet, sweet poem!

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing

Don’t Think Too Much About it; Just do it!

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Love Me Some D-E-S-S-E-R-T Playlist:

Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch sung by The Four Tops

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 #71-Lists

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January is a month of lists: resolutions, goals, projects, groceries.

Poetry Challenge #71

Lists

You can write list poems over and over with different results every time.

  1. Begin with any topic and list things it makes you think of as quickly as you can.

  2. Next go through the list and pick out one or more things that stick out for you.

  3. Try making a list from the thing you picked out.

  4. What does that thing make you think of?

  5. Why did you pick it?

  6. Add detail.

  7. Use your senses.

  8. Play with rhythm or rhyme.

Here are a couple prompts you can use to start if you want:

I like…
I wish I liked…
I remember…

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Set the timer for 7 minutes.

Start writing!

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

*Cindy Faughnan and I resolved to begin this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 1010 days ago! We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. 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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