Writing Game 1

Writing Game Number 1

The clock is ticking,

I have to start.

A poem in five minutes?

There must be an art!

Iambic pentameter or haiku,

or what?

A false start is better

than a start that is not.

Now, after eight lines the rhymes have dried up,

I’ve drunk all my tea, I’ll refill the cup.

A poem need not rhyme,

but the scansion has slipped

A free thought let loose

and creativity clipped.

Helen Springall, 6^th September 2011