Day 25 ~ Credo Poem for #NationalPoetryMonth and "30 poems in 30 days"

The word “credo” is Latin, and literally means, “I believe.” So, today were are going to write a “Credo Poem." This is a pretty cool format and it was taken from a scene in the movie “Bull Durham” (which I’ve never seen so this is NOT a recommendation to see it – in fact, when I tried watched the clip of his “credo” I turned it off – not my style; too crass for me). However, it does make for a good poetry form, so here it is ~ basically, just fill in the blanks:

CREDO POEM ~ in each of the first 4 blanks, tell something you believe in and on the last line of the 1^st stanza list 3 things (separated by each of the commas provided)

Then for the “BUT” line – tell something you don’t believe in, such as “But I don’t believe” … or “But I think … telling something that you don’t support, believe, etc. “But I think ‘whatever’ is overrated” or any way you want to add a line about what you DON’T believe in that starts with the word “But.”

Finally, the last stanza is MORE of what you believe in (3 lines and then a line of 3 things, separated by a comma, like you did in the 1^st stanza and then – end with one long statement that kind of summaries what you believe or what you have hope for in the future type of thing.

OK, here is the basic format – whatcha’ got?

I believe in the _________________________,

the___________________________________,
the___________________________________,
the___________________________________,
the___________________________________,
_______________,_______________,_________________.

But _______________________________________ . (something you don't believe in)

I believe in____________________________,
I believe in____________________________,
I believe in____________________________,
______________,________________,_________________.

And I believe in ___________________________________  _________________________________________________ . (longest line of poem)

Here is a link to an example poem written by a teenager found on “Teen Ink” (her format is a bit different - she doesn't seem to have the 3 items listed at the end of each stanza). . . which looks pretty good, so use either format. 

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