This month, my poetry sisters and I are taking on “wordplay” poems, which use the format “_____ is a word" as the start. Laura Purdie Salas has done many of these, and has written some how-to information that you might find helpful here. Where Laura delves deep into the interior of a word as part of her poem, even finding other words or meanings from letters, I prefer to do mine a bit more broadly.
Which is how it is that I ended up with the following poem:
Clock is a tick-tock word,
a way of holding time in its hands.
A handy word,
one that can slip by unnoticed.
Clock can be tall
as a grandfather, or
alarmingly small.
A punctual word,
lacking second syllables.
A simple word,
missing minute details.
Clock is a word that stands
the test of time.
This week’s Poetry Friday roundup is with Linda at TeacherDance.
Poetry Peeps! You're invited to join our challenge for the month of November! Here's the scoop: We're writing an Ode to Autumn. An ode is a lyrical poem, and like the ancient Greeks, modern humans also enjoy marking an occasion with a song. Whether you choose an irregular ode with no set pattern or rhyme, or the ten-line, three-to-five stanza famed by Homer himself, we hope you'll join us in singing in the season of leaf-fall and pie. Are you in? Good! You’ve got a month to craft your creation(s), then share your offering with the rest of us on November 26th (the Friday after Thanksgiving, so plan ahead) in a post and/or on social media with the tag #PoetryPals.