Strengthen Your Thinking - Sculpted Poetry and Triolets - Creative Writing

"Having done the �Haiku� exercise I felt a sense of calm and inspired to write more."

Step 3: Create your five line Sculpted Poem

We’re going to ask you to make your piece of writing into a five line poem. This is to help you with the final stage of the exercise. For now, we are not going to use rhyme.

Chop up your chosen words, rearrange them, add or take away words until you have a new piece of writing. You may have to take out some words or phrases to cut your piece down to five lines

Example:

Government of virtue

Orbiting the planets

Your order set in granite

Sweet marjoram we implore thee

Soothe the grief of the womb

Examples of five line poems using chosen words and phrases:

 You'll see the five line poem which has used the above chosen phrases as its starting point.

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First from seed of the plant is sown

 after a while it roots in the ground  

shooteth forth strings or threads

 The hottest herb is thyme

 That which grows upon colder herbs

Joy

The plant monster

It has a slender long spine and crown of stiff bristles

 It eats worms and spiders and purplish hollow flowers 

With its tongue it catches the dew and rain which falls

 And it lives in a stately and beautiful plant

 by the banks of a river.

Edward Cowan

Sweet Marjoram

Government and virtues

Mercury under Aries

Sweet marjoram

Old griefs of the womb

Ointments and salves

JB

Savory

This plant will cure all Wasp stings and bad tummies 

for all sufferings, geometrical, metaphysical and mortal 

During the ascent as man as it is good 

Although surgeons decline its temptations

Liam Michael Hunt

Upload your five line poem below to your own private Creative Writing Collection and share in the public Communal Creative Writing Collection if you'd like to