The Acrostic Poetry Challenge - Starter(s)
Created | Updated Jan 9, 2011
The Acrostic Poem has been a long-standing challenge, mainly between B'Elana and PedanticBarSteward. However, we've decided to open up the idea to anyone who would like to take part, as a regular poetry challenge.
The word chosen each time is the Telegram Game's current word, so if you join in or subscribe to the telegram game you'll know as soon as it's announced. When you've completed your poem, submit it by posting to a new thread below, and we'll put the best of them together in the next issue.
Have fun!
STARTER(S)
Silly people
Try solutions,
Always making
Resolutions.
Theories, plans
Eliminate –
Resolve is futile.
Seek Zen state.
Someone told me, but what I forgot,
To do or to don't, to whether or not,
After an hour and a Moghrabi 'saddam'1,
Remembering what didn't matter a damn;
The following day – with a head full of lead,
Eventu'ly dawned on me what had been said;
Rhymes – acrostic or otherwise – are impossible when there are seven lines.
Dmitri Gheorgheni and PedanticBarSteward
