Sun & Rain, W-3 #54: Elfchen

Posted byColleen M. ChesebroPosted inMy PoetryTags:, , , , ,

David’s W-3 prompt #54 for this week, per Sadje’s prompt guidelines:

  • Write an ‘elfchen’ poem;
  • Extra challenge: write a second elfchen poem, which opposes the first one.

What’s an elfchen poem?

From Wikipedia: The typical structure of an elevenie is as follows:

RowWordsContent
11A thought, an object, a colour, a smell or the like
22What does the word from the first row do?
33Where or how is the word of row 1?
44What do you mean?
51Conclusion: What results from all this? What is the outcome?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevenie
sun
shimmers brightly
in the sky
yellow diamond healing light
sunshine


clouds
carry moisture
from the ocean
Cumulonimbus—dark sky thunderheads
rain

© Colleen M. Chesebro

Published by Colleen M. Chesebro

An avid reader, Colleen M. Chesebro rekindled her love of writing poetry after years spent working in the accounting industry. These days, she loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. In addition to poetry books, Chesebro’s publishing career includes participation in various anthologies featuring short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. She’s an avid supporter of her writing community on Word Craft Poetry.com by organizing and sponsoring a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called #TankaTuesday, where participants experiment with traditional and current forms of Japanese and American syllabic poetry. Chesebro is an assistant editor of The Congress of the Rough Writers Flash Fiction Anthology & Gitty Up Press, a micro-press founded by Charli Mills and Carrot Ranch. In January 2022, Colleen founded Unicorn Cats Publishing Services to assist poets and authors in creating eBooks and print books for publication. In addition, she creates affordable book covers for Kindle and print books. Chesebro lives in the house of her dreams in mid-Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes with her husband and two (unicorn) cats, Chloe & Sophie.

43 thoughts on “Sun & Rain, W-3 #54: Elfchen”

Comments are closed.

%d bloggers like this: