Writing Prompt
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POEM STARTER
Write a poem that makes heavy use of alliteration.
Explore what you can emphasise in your poetry through this technique.
Writings
While the worried world of war weeps,
People panic and pray for peace.
Terrified to face the fear, afraid to fight for freedom.
Stranded souls surely suffer,
Silent screams stir the somber air.
Searching for salvation,
Sudden sacrifice, such a sad and somber site.
Tattered towns torn asunder,
Trembling hands tightly tether.
Hope hangs heavily in heavy hearts,
Constant cacophony, cruelty in the ...
Beneath the beams of the bright moonlight,
brave and bold, he fights the fight.
Clashing with claws of creatures concealed,
courageously he carves through the cursed field.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fists against the posts,
and still insists he sees the ghosts....
Broccoli and cheese
Dinner rolls
Cranberries
Casseroles
Lighting up the Christmas tree
Stockings on the fireplace
Everybody is happy
Holding hands and saying grace
Gifts with bows
Christmas lights
Sweet potatoes
Starry nights
Christmas spirit in the air
Carolers singing merry tunes
Smiling faces everywhere
Holidays are coming soon
Christmas songs on the radio
Dinner simmering on the stove
Snow...
…attributes, always belying belief in the beauty of consistent consonants and consonance,
Creating dramatic, detailed depictions of eerily-earthy enjoyment,
Forever floundering fondly from gray-matter given generously,
Having had hardly the headspace initially intended for justly jubilant jocularity,
Keeps a kinetic kaleidoscope living,
Long-last lauded,
Metaphorically-metered in the muck and mir...
An absolute agony
Storms in me,
Physically pulling prayers
My mouth barely remembers how to speak.
The prayers lack power,
Pure poison promises
I’m losing my mind,
I may never bounce back, just break.
I used to think
That love could fix
Whatever had been broken
Until I watched divorce divide the family I held dear....
Songs of sad stories
Light our long paths
Through thick woods
Of self salvaging.
The shadow of our solitary shelter
Shifted our unsettled souls
Into the spotlight
We must make up for our misdeeds
To others,
To ourselves.
We judged unjustly,
We withheld our worth,
refused rest,
granted little grace.
We can…
Recover our compassion,
Renew our neighbors,
Uplift our love for life....
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