Initial Ideas: A Brainstorm Acrostic

(From my poetry archives)

Acrostic poems need not contain rhyme or meter, but this acrostic poem does. Brainstorms offer creative notions, new ideas and open-ended possibilities. What brainstorms are brewing in your own imagination today?

Initial Ideas: A Brainstorm Acrostic

Beyond all notions we have known,

Remarkable ideas are shown.

An atmospheric freedom waits,

Inspiring ever widening gates.

No boundaries may block our way;

Still forth we step, as step we may.

Tomorrow’s truths may telegraph.

Our colleagues twitter, taunt and laugh.

Reject the ridicule, and stand.

Mere brainstorms grow to concepts grand.

c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Image:

“The Dreamer,” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1879

Public Domain

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No truth in the booth

When it comes to directives, maybe it’s more about perspectives.

No truth in the booth

An acrostic selection on the pending election

Conflict and chaos send voters awhirl,

As contrary claims are debunked, truth grows muddled.

No ballots are counted, but we’ve come hinged.

Don’t we know better by now?

It’s clear the world’s gone topsy-turvy.

Debaters dig deep for dirt, and vice-versa.

Ask anybody. Even the future’s door is turned upside down.

Time for a reset. We’re not gonna find a Savior on the ballot.

Everything changes when we realize this isn’t really our home.

Suppose we remember the Lord isn’t running for President.

c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

31 Days of Poetry and Writing: Write about some change in your life which came about because you opened a door. (29)

31 Writing Prompts: If you could go one place in the world, where would it be? (29)

OctPoWriMo: - “upside down” – with “topsy-turvy,” “vice versa,” “contrary,” “unhinged,” and “muddled” – ACROSTIC POEM (29)

#OctPoWriMo 

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Feisty Original

Stating and relating, not merely dictating. After all, aren’t trivial words worth little more than a fistful of candy corn in the night?

Feisty Original (a writer’s acrostic)

Finding fresh phrases to fall

Ends every so often in excess.

Imagined ironies also increase insights,

Sometimes strengthening resolve.

Try these turns of phrases;

Yielded imports may bring a bounty.

Outlandish or odd, fact or fancy,

Rhymed or random, language brings learning.

Insights and delights vie for attention,

Gaining ground and ceding space.

Ideas are creative chattel or dull debris.

No one knows until verses are voiced.

Audible readings add power to poetry.

Listen, and you may live a little.

 c2016 by Linda Ann Nickerson

This poem was posted in response to these prompts:

31 Days of Poetry and Writing: What’s behind the curtain of your writing life? (11)

31 Writing Prompts: “fall,” “candy corn,” and “night” (10)

Daily Post: “original” (11)

Meme Express: “excess”

OctPoWriMo: “lively” – with “spirited,” “gutsy,” “determined,” “feisty,” and “zealous” – ACROSTIC POEM (11)

#OctPoWriMo

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31 Days logo – created by this user,

including public domain artwork.

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