Poetry Challenge—Introducing the Acrostic Form 1: The Abecedarius
Sometimes I get stuck for ideas, and sometimes I just run out of steam. Today was one of those days. I had a post prepared about Robertson Davies version of the englyn, but I couldn’t wrap my head around writing it, so I’ve stowed that post for another day—and then I went looking for some help. I used ‘how to write poems’ as a search term, but it was too general, so I used ‘types of poems’ and took the first link I saw: http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html . Now, while I’m tempted to call this the Kathi Mitchell leg of the challenge, I won’t, but I will direct you to her site. It’s a good resource for teachers, poets-in-the-making, and writers who hit a bit of a block, but need to write a poem for whatever reason. So, go here, for a crash course in some poetry basics: http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html . And then I just had to go and dig a little further and I discovered that there were some different types of acrostic, including the one we’re featuring this week...