unaccented, unaccented, accented

accented, unaccented

accented, accented, unaccented

ran tan van

mice promise

though bough cough

ermine determine vermine

wide side spied

want to write something, anything, usually nothing in particular; first step of creative cycle

essential stage; third step of creative cycle

take it to someone else; eighth step of creative cycle

letting it set; sixth and tenth step of creative cycle

idea strikes and you know what your going to write; second step of creative cycle

materials organized in logical form; fourth step of creative cycle

rough but not finished; fifth step of creative cycle

evaluate reactions of "editor" and make changes; ninth step of creative cycle

reread it and make changes; seventh step of creative cycle

big black bear bounced on the bed

alias

Anything that is not poetry

you send your manuscript to a publisher; they now hold the copyright; you may not send it to another publisher

you send your manuscript to a publisher; they accept it; you maintain the copyright; you may send it to another publisher later.

you are hired by an organization to do their writing for them. They tell you what to write. You are paid by contract.

imaginative writing that is not true

You send a manuscript; the publisher accepts it and sends you a check immediately

You send a manuscript; the publisher accepts it and sends you a check when the piece is printed

Your manuscript has been published; now you are sending it to another publisher

You are sending your manuscript to more than one publisher because it has to be published quickly or will be outdated

Occasionally you write something and then look for a publisher to share what you have written

Now and then you get an urge to write something but you have no intention of getting anything published. You simply write for your own enjoyment

There are always those things that need written: a reminder to a family member, a shopping list, maybe a journal, a letter...

Where do you want to say what you have to say

to whom do you want to say what you have to say

Why do you want to say what you have to say

when do you want to say what you have to say

what do you want to say

how do you want to say what you have to say

On a withered branch

A crow has alighted;

Nightfall in autumn.

Ocean

Blue, powerful

Waves crashing ashore

Teeming with sea creatures

Life

THERE was a small boy of Quebec,

Who was buried in snow to his neck;

When they said. "Are you friz?"

He replied, "Yes, I is—

But we don't call this cold in Quebec."

Listen...

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees

And fall.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

poem with three lines and seventeen syllables

light, nonsense poem with five lines

five line poem with either a 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllable pattern or a 1, 2, 3, 4, 1 word pattern

fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter