Day 12 ~ “Brevette Poem” for “30 Poems in 30 Days” #NationalPoetryMonth

 

Well, it’s been a busy couple of weeks and now most of you are up and looking for today’s poetry form to follow ~ so I’m just going to copy this one almost exactly from the last time I used it, (which was last year – HaHa), which means I haven’t written anything new this year for this format, but I’ll see how my day goes; hopefully, I can join you, but it’s FUN, short, and surprisingly challenging!! FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS, including adding spaces only on the VERB. Better check out “How to write a Brevette Poem”

So this LOOKS simple – THREE WORDS? Yeah, but it can be tricky ~ The Brevette ~ check it out!! It will be tricky for me because I struggle with brevity! No titles or anything

ONLY THREE WORDS? Yikes!!

There are a FEW particulars to this poetry form created by Emily Romano. Here’s a little grammar for you – I know you love it – this poem consists of TWO NOUNS & a VERB (it can have a title or not - up to you):

LINE 1: a subject (noun)

LINE 2: a verb (the verb has a space between each letter:  v e r b)

LINE 3: an object (noun)

They need to STAY in that exact order and yeah, there is ONE MORE THING!! In order for the verb to show an ongoing action, it is spaced out, letter by letter.

Whether or not you include a title is up to you, but otherwise, there is NO punctuation, and all words are lower case ~

THREE WORDS – don’t be adding “helping verbs” or “articles” – that’s cheating. Coming up with a subject and an object for the nouns is surprisingly difficult. Seriously, this is trickier than it seems. So, here are a couple of examples, some better than others:

Example #1: (no title)

rainbow

r a d i a t e s

spectrum

1      © 2007 Emily Romano

 

Example #2:

“Never Give Up”

dreams

c o m e

true

© 2018 Stephanie Abney

Example #3:

“On the run”

dog

s m e l l s

escapes

      © 2017 Stephanie Abney

Example #4:

“Knotted Strings”

patience

u n t a n g l e s

knots

© 2018 Stephanie Abney

 

 

Example #5:

“Crying”

eyes

l e a k

tears

      © 2017 Stephanie Abney

 

Example #6:

“Keep believing”

dreams

f o l l o w

passion

      © 2017 Stephanie Abney

 

PLEASE REMEMBER ~ any poetry found on this blog, written by me, is my personal property and may not be used without my permission, other than sharing it as an example in a lesson or to read it to someone. The same goes for any poems that are shared in the comments of this blog or elsewhere online as a result of this challenge. They are the creative property of the person who writes them. These poems are their original work and no one may use them without their permission. It is understood that they own the copyright to them as soon as they post them. Thanks so much!

 

Also, if you choose to post your poems on your own blog ~ that’s awesome. But PLEASE don’t just copy and paste my daily instructions, but rather post your poem on your blog or your FB wall or wherever AND LINK BACK TO THIS BLOG POST for others to come here to read the instructions. I’ve spent considerable time researching the poetry forms and writing them up to share with you. Thanks for respecting my work.