Showing posts with label Careerhyme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Careerhyme. Show all posts

Friday, January 11, 2013

Poetry Friday -- Careerhymes

Flickr Creative Commons photo by  /Sizemore/

TRAFFIC COP

Drivers think the traffic cop
is totally about the, "STOP!"
Standing hours in twelve below
what I need to do is GO!


© Mary Lee Hahn, 2013



Good think I spent a few minutes browsing my Google Reader feeds yesterday. Blog after blog featured Careerhymes, a new form invented by (who else?) J. Patrick Lewis.

I started reading the HUNDREDS of comments on the original post at David Harrison't blog, and they were all so dang CLEVER that I almost gave up before I even tried. However, this one practically wrote itself on the way to school (seed idea captured with voice memo on my phone), and now I'm hooked! You should try one, too! Here's the form:
"...light verse, in which the name of an occupation appears somewhere in the first line."
Couldn't be easier, could it? So what's holding you back? Write one!!



Renee has today's roundup at No Water River.