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May Flowers – Poetry About Growth
Now that we’ve written about the rain (sad) let’s move into what the rain helps with: Growth. Just like any poetry you write, the poetry about growth can be about yourself, someone else, something in your past, or present—even an imagined future.
So, what is growth? Most dictionaries talk about getting bigger. I like to see it as becoming more or advancing beyond what we were before. Learning and acceptance both have a lot to do with it—even if the thing you learn and must accept is painful. When you’re young, you learn to look at what is around you, so you don’t hurt yourself when you stand, walk or run. Character also can play a part—in fact, it can be the determining factor between growth and stagnation.
Your poetry about growth can still have touches of sad, since growth can hurt, but also remember that growth can be exciting, and new and also frustrating and complicated, but in the end, growth is usually good.
Feel free to share your growth poetry with me and I’ll share them with the newsletter next month. Below is a form to help you get started with writing some growth poetry.
Whitney
Florida poet Betty Ann Whitney created the Whitney form. I selected it for this month due to the meter. It reminded me about growth and how sometimes you take a step forward and then back and then forward—a few times sometimes, before that growth becomes permanent.
MUST HAVES
--Line count: 7
--Number of stanzas: 1
--Meter: Syllabic, in the following format – 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 7
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Rhyme
--Alignment
--Topic/theme
SOURCE NOTES:
https://thewordshop.tripod.com/fspa/meetourpoets/whitney.html
http://niagarapoetry.ca/2017/12/21/whitney/
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Theme: Growing and growth
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