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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
W. H. Auden
"A poem is a communication from one soul to another that makes one or both hearts sing."
Walter Mayes
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Twist & Shout: Valentine’s Poetry with a Twist
I’m a big believer in the: why be normal -- be unique idea. So with that in mind, I’ve got some ideas on how you can shake up your Valentine’s day poetry.
1) Take a familiar starter line and take it in an unexpected direction.
What do I mean by starter line? Try starting your poem with “Roses are red” or “Violets are blue” then take the poem in an unexpected direction. You don’t have to use those two options, feel free to use your own familiar starter.
2) Use an unexpected POV
This one is pretty self-explanatory, but if you need help with it, it is the subject of this newsletter's discussion question found posted on WDC and their pages on Facebook, etc.
3) Direct the poem to an unexpected recipient.
Traditionally it’s to your love, but say your love is a car or your house or your town, etc.
4) Pair the love genre with an unexpected genre
This one can be quite fun. Take your love genre and pair it with an unexpected genre like horror or technology.
5) Use an unexpected form
Valentine’s poetry is traditionally written in a form like a sonnet or an ode (not always, but these are a couple of common ones as examples). Maybe instead write an epic or limerick or whatever form you feel would be unexpected.
I selected the below form because I'd love to see how creative you guys will get by creating Valentine's Day clerihews.
Clerihew
The Cleriwho? Er, WHAT?!
If you’re asking that question right now, just think David Letterman or Jerry Seinfeld in rhyming couplets.
The Clerihew is named for the English detective-story author Edmund Clerihew Bentley, its creator. This form can be traced back to 1905 when Bentley published a collection of them titled “Biography For Beginners.” It’s been said that he began to write them as a way to relax from the rigors of classwork at the age of sixteen.
Generally speaking, when creating a Clerihew you want to go for wit, sarcasm, irony, and just plain silliness.
When Bentley first created the form, they featured a name in the first line and ended it with the witty punchline/gag but you can ridicule anything, so don't get bogged down by that.
Here is an example of one of the first known Clerihew:
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)
MUST HAVES
--Amount of lines per stanza: 4
--Amount of stanzas: Usually 1
--Rhyme: AABB
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic.
--Meter: Any length or meter
Other Clerihew links:
http://www.gilbertmagazine.com/sample_issue/12_35_ccorner.htm
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/168406
http://www.romedome.com/poetry/sciflerihews/campy_clerihews.htm
http://thinks.com/words/clerihew.htm
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/clerihew.htm
http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-cle1.htm
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