Call me fruity, idiotic, insane, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, mental, moonstruck, or nutty as fruitcake . . . still, I’m having fun (So far!) and learning a great deal. In addition, I’m unblocking some of the creative flow.

Not only am I taking the 30 Days, 30 Poems challenge at the Poetry Asides blog (Writer’s Digest), where the poem prompt for each day is given. I am also challenging myself to use 30 different poetic forms.  Are there 30 forms? Not sure, I think so.  (I know, I’m completely off my rocker!)

This will be difficult for a person who normally does not use rhyme in her stand-alone poems. (I do in my picture books.) Today I used an Ottava Rima. This is an Italian form that is 8 lines long, usually iambic pentameter (5 iambs—a soft & a hard beat—and thus 10 syllables long). It has a rhyming scheme of abababcc.  Wow!

Yesterday’s poem was a Fibonacci poem. That was fun, though relatively easy compared to today’s.

You can read my poems here or click on the “Poet’s Corner” logo in the right-hand sidebar.

How are you challenging yourself?

Happy Poetry Month!

Shutta

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