by 12 members A 10 word poem has no restrictions other than it can only have 10 words. Recently, I sponsored a contest at another site, attempting to have many depart from their more verbose forms (I am very guilty of verbosity) and try a terse form such as this. Several rose to the challenge. Think William Carlos Williams, Red Wheel Barrow (a 16 word poem) when trying to get the smell and taste of this form.
by spysgrandson
irony's got nothing on this dramatic, overblown love of ours.
think shakespeare: romeo and juliet, othello and desdemona, hamlet and ophelia. they are not us. we are ten times as mad and a hundred times as passionate.