Poetry Challenge - Introducing the Acrostic Forn 6: The Multiple Acrostic Type 3

Another variation of the multiple acrostic occurs when a single acrostic is used to form each verse of a poem, rather than just forming a single verse.

Soon to be gone we fly

To destinations beyond our skies

Around the moon and through the stars

Rivalling explorers who once moved by sail

Suns still guide them on their trails

Hardships can be just the same

In lack of food and water, and creatures unnamed

Passengers go along for the ride

Sons and daughters, full families, all know the worlds they reach will their dreams decide.

Subtle is the engines’ hum

Too muted by the metal floors

An all-surrounding bone-deep thrum

Running through our very core

Shall we ignore it, let it be

How the sounds of our lives ring

Instead of traffic, winds and seas

Perpetually we are kept company, by the starship’s hum

See how we fly

See how we fly, amidst our hopes

Towards our dreams, that age-old trope

A change is as good as a holiday

Reality might otherwise choose to have its way

See how we fly, through void night-deep

Hauling our way past wonders, in a leap

Into the great unknown, where man, at least, has never flown

Perhaps we’ll find we’re not alone

So far from the world on which our species was born.

Why don’t you give it a try? Try writing at least one acrostic for each day of this week.

You can find out more about how to write acrostics from the following sites:

• http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic
• http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/abecedarian.htm
• http://classiclit.about.com/od/literaryterms/g/aa_abcedarianpo.htm
• http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/
• http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/acrosticterm.htm
• http://www.edu.pe.ca/stjean/playing%20with%20poetry/Hickey/acrostic.htm
• http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/lessons/how-to-write-an-acrostic-poem/
• http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/puzzles/acrostic-puzzles2.htm
• http://classroom.synonym.com/explanation-acrostic-poems-2019.html
• http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/howto-write-an-acrostic-poem.php
• http://kingpoetry.com/murder.htm