HOMEWORK CHALLENGE FOR WEEK ENDING 24/09/12

[Maureen K Clifford]

A chance to try something different and see how clever you all are. This fortnight's homework is a challenge to write an acrostic poem.

Choose a word to be your poem's topic, and write it vertically, from top to bottom. Then turn each letter into a line of poetry about that topic.

Ideas:

• Write an acrostic using your own name, or the name of someone or something you love.
• Write an acrostic about a month of the year, with the lines spelling out that month.
• Write about your town, or a flower, birds or animals – whatever rows your boat

Of course if you have a short name like Bill or Bob it would be pretty easy to do, Zondrae or Manfred would perhaps be a tad more difficult, but I have no doubt with the talent that you people have it will be a problem you can find a solution to and have a bit of fun along the way.

Thanks to those who participated in the last fortnights homework challenge. There was some great work came out of that and Terry's poem in particular provoked a lot of comment and discussion.

Keep up the good work – and go to it

Cheers

Maureen