Acrostic Poetry?
Poetry, not something which comes naturally to me as a
writer or something that appeals to me, I am ashamed to say. A member of Ottery Writers, Grenville Gilbert,
has a book of excellent poems entitled ‘Honest to God’ and regularly pens a
topical poem for our meetings. In fact, we have a few poets in Ottery Writers.
There is a link to the Ottery Blog from this one, please have a look, there are
some interesting writers posting on there.
On the way to work on Friday morning, I was listening to Zoe
Ball on the radio as usual. I was a little earlier than normal and she had an
item called ‘Show and Tell’ and is where a young listener comes on and sings,
plays an instrument or does something they are proud of to show off to the
audience. On this morning a young girl came on to read her acrostic poem.
“A cross what?” I
asked myself, to which Zoe came back with the answer.
An acrostic poem is
a poem where certain
letters in each line spell out a word or phrase. Typically, the first letters
of each line are used to spell the message, but they can appear anywhere.
So here it is my first attempt at acrostic poetry;
C Christmas
comes but once a year
H Homes
decorated inside and out
R Remembering
Christmases of past
I imagining
no doubt of happy times
S Shopping
becomes a Christmas life essential
T To many
it just seems mental
M Maybe we
just need
A a time to
enjoy
S seasons
of Christmas with families connected.
I’m not sure if I will get into writing poetry too soon, but
you never know what will happen!
