OK!! We are almost half way through the month!! Unbelievable! Today we are going to write a rather short, BUT very specific style of poetry. It’s called a Brevette ~ and it is ONLY THREE WORDS LONG – but you need to be precise in order to qualify as a Brevette.
This LOOKS simple – THREE WORDS? Yeah, but it can be tricky ~ check it out!! The Brevette has NO title. It’s a bit of a grammar-style poem in that the first word is the SUBJECT (noun) and the second word is a VERB while the last word it the OBJECT (noun)
ONLY THREE WORDS? Yikes!!
It is SUPER IMPORTANT that the SECOND word HAS A SPACE BETWEEN EACH LETTER – like t h i s
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:
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, be sure to remember!! In order for the verb (2nd word) to show an ongoing action, it is spaced out, l e t t e r by l e t t er.
There is NO title. There is NO punctuation. AND all words are lower case ~
Your formatting program is going to mess with you – you will probably need to go back and change the first letter on each line to a lower case letter. There are NO capital letters in a Brevette Poem
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: (written by the poetry form’s creator)
rainbow
r a d i a t e s
spectrum
© 2007 Emily Romano
Example #2:
stars
l i g h t
skies
© 2024 Stephanie Abney
Example #3:
patience
u n t a n g l e s
knots
© 2018 Stephanie Abney
Example #4:
dreams
c o m e
true
© 2018 Stephanie Abney
Example #5:
eyes
l e a k
tears
© 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 create them and especially once they post them. Thanks so much!
*** Also, if you choose to post your poems on your own blog or elsewhere on social media ~ 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 EACH DAY’S SPECIFIC 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.
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