I used to dislike acrostic poems. I found most of the ones that I had read were too prosaic. Then, when I was still teaching, I tried writing some with my students. Some of my students—with my help—wrote really exceptional acrostics. Here are two examples:
SUNS by Billy
Solar flares blast into space,
Untamed explosions of fire, in
Neverending galaxies where
Stars are born and reborn.
Untamed explosions of fire, in
Neverending galaxies where
Stars are born and reborn.
SPACE by Colby
Stars, jewels of light sparkle in the night.
Pluto, cold as an icy night, as dark as pitch, freezes in space.
Asteroids, worlds of rock and metal, play ring around the sun.
Comets of ice with fiery tails glow in the darkness.
Elegant Earth, a world of sapphire blue and green, spins around the sun.
Stars, jewels of light sparkle in the night.
Pluto, cold as an icy night, as dark as pitch, freezes in space.
Asteroids, worlds of rock and metal, play ring around the sun.
Comets of ice with fiery tails glow in the darkness.
Elegant Earth, a world of sapphire blue and green, spins around the sun.
After my experience with my students writing acrostics, I was inspired to write some myself. Here are three of my Christmas-themed acrostics:
Wrapped around itself,
Red-ribboned
Evergreen, fragrant of winter forests,
Adorned with berries, baubles, bells of gold,
Tacked to the front door...
Home for the holidays.
Trimmed with tinsel, bedecked with shiny bulbs,
Ribboned with red satin, strung with bright lights—
Each twinkling like an earthbound star in an
Evergreen sky.
Santa snaps the reins. Red-nosed Rudolph
Leads the team of reindeer this early winter
Eve. Up, up
Into the sky with a cargo of Christmas
Gifts and goodies they rise, weaving through clouds. Can you
Hear the merry jingle of their silver bells?
At Wild Rose Reader, I have an original memoir poem about my childhood titled Christmas Eve.
Amy has the Poetry Friday Roundup at The Poem Farm.
