Poetry: Word Play! - Playing With Poetry

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This week: Word Play! - Playing With Poetry

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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Carl Sandburg

"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes..."

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Word Play – Playing With poetry!

Playing with poetry is a wonderful pastime for anyone, but especially writers. On ordinary days it can be used just for fun and relaxation--on other days for serious skill sharpening or busting through writer’s block.
I found several ways you could play with poetry both online and if the power should go off.

Poetry Tiles

These are cards, papers or magnets with words on them that you form into lines of poetry by adding and subtracting as well as arranging them and rearranging them until you are happy with what you created. They most famous types of poetry tiles are the magnetic ones. You can purchase these, or make your own. If you want to use a cyber version you can click here: http://magneticpoetry.com/pages/play-online-1.

Poetry Forms

Playing with poetry forms in general is a great way to sharpen your skills, and have fun at the same time. This newsletter provides information on poetry forms, as well as an abundance of online and offline resources. Here is an online source that makes it easy. Just fill in the blanks and go: http://poetrygames.org/

Play Poetry Games With Friends

There are some poetry forms that originated as poetry games with many people. An example of this is the Haikai.

I used to do this in school with both stories and poems. For the poetry version: First, you set rules/parameters like meter, rhyme, length, etc. Second, you take turns writing lines of a poem. Third, have fun! Writing.com has a way to do this online. It’s called a campfire. There are many dedicated to poetry. Here’s a link, albeit a long one, that will take you to them: http://www.writing.com/main/list_items/item_type/campfires?action=change_page&ty...

Anagram Poetry

Anagrams are ways to have fun with words. Take a word or phrase and mix it up to make another word or phrase. Anagram poetry takes this concept to the poetic level.

MUST HAVES

--Anagrams in some form.

You have a couple choices on how to create your anagram poems.

1) Use a word or phrase (usually it then becomes the title) and create your poem only from anagrams from that word or phrase.
2) Use a line for your poem and each line following that is an anagram of the first line.

COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?

--Line count.

--Rhyme or not.

--Meter.

--Number of stanzas

--Topic.

Of Note

Here’s a cool tool to help you create an anagram poem.

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

Theme: Poetry about games.

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Comments on last month's newsletter:

Comment From: monty31802
Comment: In my opinion this News Letter is very interesting because of the emphasis on the couplet which I have not seen in other N/Ls but run into many when I review.

Thank you, Monty! I love being able to share my unique look at poetry :)

Comment From: Teerich - 2019

Comment: Thank you for featuring my poem in your newsletter. *Smile* terri

You are quite welcome!

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Red Writing Hood,
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Creating newsletters,
That makes the readers undo the fetters.

Thanks for sharing and look forward to your next one. Have a blessed week in the WdC and out there beyond your computer screen. Copenator out! Founder of Copenator's Crew

Why thank you--for both the poem and blessing. I hope your week was a blessing, as well!

That wish goes out to all the newsletter readers! Find your blessings each day :) Thank you all for the comments and feedback. Keep it coming! :)

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