Day 13 ~ How to Write a “Brevette Poem” for #NationalPoetryMonth ~ “30 Poems in 30 Days”

Day 13 ~ How to Write a “Brevette Poem” for #NationalPoetryMonth ~ “30 Poems in 30 Days”

So this LOOKS simple – THREE WORDS? Yeah, but it can be tricky ~ The Brevette ~ check it out!! It is especially tricky for me because I struggle with brevity! Titles are not required, but you may add one if you wish. I suggest underlining any titles to set them off from your 3-line Brevette poem.  

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:

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. [That is a REQUIREMENT for the Brevette poetry form].

Whether or not you include a title is up to you, but otherwise, there is NO punctuation, and all words are lower case ~ I tried to use a larger font for the poems to make it easier to see that the verb HAS A SPACE between each letter!!

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 quite a few examples, some better than others, and you can see I wrote these years ago – too tired to try new ones, but let’s see what y’all come up with!!! Cheers!!

            Example #1: (no title)

rainbow
r a d i a t e s
spectrum 

      © 2007 Emily Romano  (the creator of this poetry form)

 

Example #2:

“Knotted Strings”

patience
u n t a n g l e s
knots

© 2018 Stephanie Abney

           Example #3:

“Never Give Up”

dreams
c o m e
true

© 2018 Stephanie Abney

            Example #4:

“Crying”

eyes

l e a k
tears

       © 2017 Stephanie Abney

 

           Example #5:

“Keep Believing”

dreams

f o l l o w
passion

       © 2017 Stephanie Abney

 

(Image by kalhh from Pixabay)

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