Just in case you were wondering after the debut of Friday's 40 Photo Challenge last week, Pensieve's Poetic License is alive and well. F40PC is a weekly carnival designed to inspire you to write "40 words or less"--prose, poetry, whatevah--in response to a photo prompt; PPL is a monthly poetry 
challenge where you're instructed to follow a form and theme directive.
This month's poetic form is something I've never written before but it sounds simple and fun: clerihew. My friend Peculiar introduced this form, and since it was new to me, I thought it might be to you as well. In a nutshell, it's a short, humorous biographical verse; four lines with an AABB rhyme scheme.
Poetry4kids.com explains the how-to's in four easy steps:
- They are four lines long.
- The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
- The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
- A clerihew should be funny.
As far as theme, let's go with May celebrations--OF COURSE you know about Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day and Memorial Day, but did you also know May celebrates Asparagus Month, National Bar-B-Que Month, National Hamburger Month and National Mental Health Month?
I can hardly wait to see how you write a poem that weaves together a "person" and one of those!
Write them any time this week, and THURSDAY be sure to link your poem to Mr. Linky where you can find all the Poetic License participants.
