Poetry Games, Themes, Collections

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Here's a listing of the poetry collections, games, and threads asking you to write poems on a theme. You'll find more in the 'LOOK HERE' thread, mentioned in the STICKY OF ALL STICKIES.

Join in - if you add a new one, let me know, and I'll add it to the list.

COLLECTIONS:

The Blue Rock Poems -- AWers' poems about the citizens of the good town of.

Calling Card Thread (poems by AWers) -- Add your 'calling card' poem to the august list.
Here's the discussion thread.

Absolute Poets' Collections -- List all your poems in one place, so your fans can find them


GAMES: Any form


Poetry Game, Anyone?
-- write a poem using the keyword supplied by the previous poster

The All New Poetry Game -- write a poem using the song title supplied by the previous poster

Poem about the person above you -- self-explanatory.

Poems that Change Our Perceptions - Small Servings -- pithy, quirky works.

The 10 words Poetry Game -- You've got a list of ten words. Write a poem using them all.

New 10-word Poetry Game -- Same thing, new words.

Spam Game -- Poems using SPAM subjects.

The 'word-up' poetry game -- Write a poem where the first letters of each line spell a word.

Are you up for the challenge? -- Write a poem of the type named by the last poster; name the form of the next poem to be written.

GAMES: Specific form

Haikuicide -- write a haiku. Any haiku.

Chain, chain, chain, chain of haiku fools -- write a haiku, using the last line from the previous haiku as your first line.

My First Tanka! -- Write a tanka (see original post for explanation)

Fibs and the Fibbing Fibbers who write them... -- Write a poem using the Fibonacci sequence for syllables per line (the OP explains it better).

The Fibonacci Turn -- write a Fibonacci-turn poem (see original post for explanation)

Inspired by Paint - do you have a one-line poem? -- Add a one-liner.

Another New Form Idea. -- poems using the digits of pi to dictate how many syllables per line.

Halloween Hai-Boo Chain -- Same format as "Chain, chain, chain...", but Halloween-themed.

Cinquain Train -- A chain, chain, chain of five-line poems, syllable length 2/4/6/8/2.

THEMES: Write a poem on the theme given

Theme Me, Baby (slight return) -- Liberty

Theme Me, Baby - Vol. 2 -- Summer

Theme Me, Baby - Vol. 3
-- The Power of Memories

Theme Me, Baby! Vol. 4 -- Finding beauty in an unexpected place

Theme Me, Baby - Vol. 5 -- difficult decisions

Poems of Joy: Redux -- Poems to express joy. Restart of a thread lost earlier. Originally started by Jenna.

Paper Doll: Poems About Poems
-- self-explanatory.
 
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