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How damaging words can be.
A Poetic Pause
: Word Power by Lea Tonin1
Tyburn poetry writing prompt entry

 
Chatter
Batter
Matter
Shatter
Continuing chatter and Batter
Destroying the matter, leaves shatter.


Writing Prompt
A tyburn is a six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9,9 syllables.
The first four lines rhyme or near rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.

Example:

Sowing
Hoeing
Growing
Mowing

Planting gardens, sowing, hoeing grounds.
Sunshine keeps all growing, mowing mounds.

Author Notes
Artwork Lea Tonin

     

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