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Verse Off Week 2

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Welcome to week two of the versatile verse off. If you’ve visited previously, you probably understand the concept by now, but if you’ve come in late, read on to understand what’s happening.

May is a dual celebration with the release of Kathryn Apel’s This is the Mud!, a humorous rhyming picture book, and Sally Murphy’s Pearl Verses the World, a free verse novel. Just look at the pretty covers:

To celebrate, we are inviting blog readers to have some fun by responding – in verse – to some prompts. You can choose your style – either free verse (unrhyming) or rhyming verse. This is your chance to prove that your preferred form is the best.

So are you versed in rhyme – or free? May is your chance to find out!Each Sunday in May we’ll post the prompt on both blogs, http://www.sallymurphy.blogspot.com/ and http://katswhiskers-thewritestuff.blogspot.com/ and invite readers to post their verse responses. If you want to respond in free verse, please post your response on Sally’s blog, and if writing in rhyme, you can post at Kathryn’s blog.The next day – Monday – we’ll post the verses in a new post for all to see.

Here are the rules:
1. There is no ‘right’ answer to the prompt. Be creative.
2. Limit your response to twelve lines (so there is room for everyone’s response)
3. You can respond in either free verse or rhymed verse. If you’d like to do both, post each at the appropriate blog.
4. This is your work, so add your name, and a link to your website or blog, if you’d like.
5. Everyone is a winner! But there is no winner.

Got it? Great. Then here goes with the new prompt – taken by Sally in her recent travels.

Over to you. Write your response to this photo (remember twelve lines or less) and, if it is free verse, post it in the comments section below. If you’d like to respond in rhyme, head over to Kathryn’s blog. Don’t forget to add your name – and link, if you have one. And check back tomorrow to see your poem featured.

Go on – have a go. you know you want to. And thank you for celebrating the birth of our two books with us.

Comments

  3. Look Mum
    A lollypop tree!
    Do you think
    If I pick a leaf
    And plant it deep
    Where it’s warm and sunny
    We might grow
    Our very own
    Lollypop tree?
    Please?

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