Poetry Pals - Week 11 - 3 word sentence poems
Poems with only 3 words per sentence.
Hello people,
This week over at
we had another lovely guest writer , who had us looking at form and gave us a lovely poem employing slashes.Then gave us our task…
Your writing prompt for the week is a three word exercise! Write a poem / paragraph where each sentence is only three words long. Notice how the structure of the three word sentence impacts the flow, rhythm, meaning and pace of the poem. Does it change what is being said? If so, allow it to change!
This was interesting and I think I might have annoyed my pals slightly by promptly writing a ditty about the task there and then. Opps. I was feeling teaseful though.
Three words, eh? Could be difficult Could be fun I’ll take it And run, run.
I was being extremely flippant so I rewrote it.
Just three words
Three words, eh?
Could be difficult
Could be fun
Play around some
Lines made short
Lines made terse
Words chosen wisely
Just three utterances
Just three words
Run with it
I’ll take it
I’ll work it
Make it mine
Present it here.
There, it’s done. But this wasn’t a serious attempt. Strangely, I had been experimenting the previous week, when my adult middle child said my poetry was rather prose like so I was trying to write better poetry like poetry. And whilst writing some actual prose about a childhood memory an image stuck in my mind and I worked with it. A bit of fiddling and it become a 3 word sentence poem. So some of you may have read a very similar version of this before.
Flirting (3 words sentences)
blush stickleback red
cheeks hot glowing
smile shy twisting
stars birth brainside
emotion galaxies swirl
milk churn stomach
spine creep chills
breath quick shortening
blush stickleback red
March 2024And then I managed to write just one more. I am a glutton for punishment!
Open Your Eyes
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes!
Wake, look around.
See the light.
It waits there.
Waiting, for you.
Can you see?
Will you see?
Stand, reach, grasp.
It is yours.
Take it, now.
Treasure your gift.
Now the guardian.
Now the keeper.
Keep it safe.
Open your heart.
Open your heart! It still needs work.
So there you go. I’m looking forward to the next task. Until next week.
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‘Can you see
Will you see’
Love these two lines together. Thanks for taking me on the process with a lovely frank honesty 🙏
heard in nature
hours I wait
for visiting words