Poetry Prompt – 01 Sept 2020

Tuesday 01 September 2020 Use the picture provided as inspiration or write a poem using slant (or off) rhymes. For an extra challenge consider using any or all of the following words in your poem. breadth – circle – desert – monarch – month – orange – silver – virtue – wisdom DS Coremans, Forever…

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September 1, 2020

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Tuesday 01 September 2020

Use the picture provided as inspiration
or write a poem using slant (or off) rhymes.

For an extra challenge consider using any or all of the following words in your poem.

breadth – circle – desert – monarch – month – orange – silver – virtue – wisdom
DS Coremans, Forever Distracted By Life

Author’s Note: ‘Slant’ or ‘off-rhymes’ are word pairings which are used in rhyme. The words themselves do not rhyme, but are ‘almost’ rhymes or near misses. A slant rhyme can be used when no rhyming word is available to maintain the sound and feel of continuity in a poem which uses rhyme.

e.g. orange/arrange – card/laird – cabbage/radish

Picture Used Taken: Skye, Scotland (April, 2010) ©DSCoremans

One response to “Poetry Prompt – 01 Sept 2020”

Rhyming (Off) Couplets – Hard Rhymes (Come and Go) – Forever Distracted By Life

September 1, 2020 at 2:03 pm

[…] Author’s Note: This was a really fun poem to write, and start to finish was put together after a lecture last year for a tutorial later that afternoon. While the poem ended up being quite silly and quirky, I really liked this as silly poetry is not always my go to style. Writing using only off-rhymes is much harder than you would initially think, I found myself working very hard to find the right word for each of these words with no rhyme. The other writers and poets I study with chose wildly different words; but their inflections, dialects and emphasis made most words work in their given context.This poem was used as inspiration for today’s Poetry Prompt. […]

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DS Coremans is the lead writer, editor, and founder of the creative writing website Forever Distracted By Life established in 2014. Works of poetry and short-fiction by DS Coremans have been published in several print and online publications including the annual Poetry Marathon Anthology (2019-22); The Lockdown Writing Initiative 2021 Collection and in the online literary magazine The Pine Cone Review.

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