POEM STARTER

Choose a haiku written by you or an established writer, and use it to write a golden shovel.

A golden shovel uses the words of another poem to conclude each line. See how another poem’s framework affects your writing!

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Poetry

To her, I often glance over, Hoping to catch a glimpse of the Palest of skin, soft and wintry, With eyes green as trees of the forest My love as powerful as the strongest winds, For her my soul does howl, I think a thought that, this just in: If I cannot have her I may swell with rage I cannot leave with Not a promise of her hand, no, But I watch as she leaves, My heart broken, surely to Never recover from the rejection she silently blows "Over the wintry Forest, winds howl in rage With no leaves to blow" — Natsume Sōseki my first attempt at poetry... so this was an interesting challenge!!

Comments 6

Noah Herodias

3 years ago

Late comment, but I love this take on the Golden Shovel format— you don’t let its restrictions break your style at all, it feels natural and perfectly integrated!

Veira

3 years ago

I was originally going to use this haiku for the prompt!! It’s so pretty ~

But you did a great job of incorporating it in your poem. I love the conflicting emotions of admiration, desperation and agony. You really are a beautiful writer 😊

…I too am always on the lookout for cool names for stories. My notes app is full of them.

Zac Whiting

3 years ago

This is awesome, I think you did a great job especially for your first time! This prompt really shines through words like “leaves” which can be used to mean different things. Splitting the word “without” into two words may have been a stretch, but a worthy one given the difficult prompt. Nice job!

carys

living day to day on a constant lookout for cool names i can use in my writings