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
18/M/kenya/eldoret
poetry in my DNA...my grandpa blessed me with bits.. and bits of it I may say am blessed I speak....and express my thoughts in poetry....
M/United States
"I'm yearning for the glory days of most deft perfection/ My pen moving in motions that defied known direction/ Well-placed words can swallow whole the …
Somewhere O'r the Rainbow
I write because I am compelled to. I read for the same reason; I am hungry and compelled to learn to quell that hunger. Writing …
18/F/Philippines
Sometimes, I like to make myself feel as though I am a possible impossibility; I would become a contrariety that agrees. A paradox that makes …