Loveday Writing

The shortest poem ever written is claimed to be this, by Ogden Nash: ‘To my Goldfish’ Wet Pet. Write one of approximately equal length** To my Bra Rack Sack     **Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.

These are all the common words that rhyme with ‘-ainly’: plainly, mainly, sanely, vainly, urbanely, profanely, ungainly, humanely, insanely, inhumanely. Write a rhyming poem using some or all of these words** Plain Jane Jane looked plainly, this was due to her mainly not wearing make-up or her hair down.   She acted sanely, never vainly or insanely, nor spoke profanely.

Describe a zoo in which there are cages for the abstract: e.g. for hatred, for the wind** Mental Jungle We’re going to the zoo today! We’re going to the zoo today! What are we going to see?   It’s not an ordinary zoo you see? The animals aren’t the ones on show: no lions, lemurs or chimpanzees, it’s not a

Personify some great force, such as the ocean** Waves (Taken Hold) The waves that took you away from me are trying to draw me in I know this— when the waves: salty and cold wash over my toes as if they know I’m afraid of what’s in the water. Because they don’t care whether you are young or old I

Write a poem that describes something or someone (you, perhaps) as it is on the outside and as it is on the inside** Appearances You see her on the outside, but do you really see the inside?   She walks around with a spring in her step, smiling to the world, what the world doesn’t know is that she has

Write a poem that will persuade someone to do something or to believe something** Amends The thoughts are back in your head of everything you’d done and said, that last fight is eating you up inside. Silence suddenly filled the room that day, you both walked away, never looking back, after the attack. Life moved on, but the thoughts never