Writing Exercises

If you are ready to dabble in poetry but are unsure how to start writing, try some of these fun exercises to get you started!

Try to create a poem using only these words, you don’t have to use all of them, but you can’t use any words not in this list:

horrible        me        love     doesn’t

she     finished      garbage    a

turd  house   like   machine

sewing   feel     I      that’s

I    can   just   lid   a
turd    a     and    to   sewing
If you are curious to see how this poem actually sounds click here.
Here’s one with some more options:
reader      gold       from      years      an      voice     you     blossoming
before        you         clouds         hundred        sending         heart
the          joy            feel           that           one      may        sing         fragrant
who           yonder         its         your           the             hundred              from
reading             hence         one       of         morning         the          living
my             I           open             doors         look       the        send           garden
your          are       and        across         years         your        of            streak
 abroad             from           cannot         you         one         joy             single
flower             this         one        of       an        in        of         gather       the          memories
my           poems       an       hundred        years           glad           from
wealth          single        flowers        of       sang        from          spring            vanished
If you are curious to see how this poem actually sounds click here.