ALPHABET POETRY

WHAT IS ALPHABET POETRY AND HOW TO WRITE IT?

Alphabet poetry is going back to Kindergarten. A play with alphabets employing different alphabets for all words is what Alphabet Poetry has in store for you. This is a fairly new form of poetry and is so much fun too. A simple way to write this is to have a letter for each word and not repeat the same letter again. A variant of this would have the same starting letter for all words in a line and a different letter for another line. In fact, there are a lot of variants that could be invented for this from your own imagination. It is also called ABC poems for reasons ver well known. 

EXAMPLE OF ALPHABET POETRY:

SUPPORT IMAGINATION

                      ~Sharon J Spivak

A ball dress, some slippers, and I am in heaven.

Believe me, pretending and dress up is fun!

Can you use your own imagination?

Do give it a try, my little one.

Every child should try make believe,

For that's what little brains often do best.

Grown-ups may tell you to study your words,

(Hey, have some fun. Take a quick rest!)

I used to pretend whenever I could -

Jumping like grasshoppers into the wood,

Kicking my feet up in some brand-new dance,

Leaping like fairies into the grass.

Mom used to call me a "Scatter Brain,"

Never was I to dance in the rain.

Over and over she warned me, "One day,

People will think your brain's gone astray!"

Questioning her theory, I only saw smiles

Returning to me as I danced many styles.

"She probably meant well, me mum," I would say.

Trying my best to keep dreaming away, but,

Under my blanket at night while in bed,

Visiting people who lived in my head,

Wondering how they liked pretending day long?

Xylophone playing, they'd sing me a song

"You know all the magic of which we're made from?

Zealously keep it and you'll always stay young."

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TIPS TO WRITE ALPHABET POETRY:

~An easy way is to write the alphabets and have the template ready before you begin the poem. It would help us in thinking of the word easily.

~The example poem above has each line beginning with a particular alphabet. This is yet another variant of the ABC poems. You can let your imagination flow and invent any variant of this.

~Have a really nice title that would make the reader want to read your poem.

So rush back to the KG, learn the alphabets and produce wonders with it!

~Avaanthikha Narayan

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