This runs it pretty close:
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
that’s a great poem too!
what’s wrong with everybody on here?
Hi Elaina! Having some lines / phrases already in mind is a great start. I’d use those as a basis for how the rest of the poem will shape up. How many stresses are in the phrase you like? How does that flow when you pair it with a phrase of similar length? One you have a pattern you like, keep adding to it and seeing how it goes. I always liked writing to a strict form because it was a scaffolding I could fit ideas into - the less structure I had, the harder it was to assemble.
Had to write a poem for gcse coursework, couldn’t do it the thought made me cringe so hard so I just refused to do it, failed English gcse probably as a result
I like that poem
how short can a poem be?
asking for “a friend”
Try to use a pen Things written down on paper Come out much better
Literally everything is a poem if it can be read in verse And the good ones are just generally about normal life but have a little clever double meaning
Ezra Pound wrote a famous two line poem:
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
No reason you couldn’t have a shorter one.
ah mine is longer and much worse.
Pound was a horrible fascist though so you’ll always have that.
Spent ages writing a one word poem and the best thing I could think of was “caught”
My one word poem would be:
tears
ooooh a tailor eh
Like this:
beautiful
write a thing that you like and then give it to mistersteve to put on his page template. sorted!
i read this years ago even though i have no desire to write poetry but found it kind of interesting
or like this
