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@bluejay Have you ever tried writing poetry from a vocabulary list? I had to once, and it was more fun than I thought. Here’s the result:
A Tale From Two Views
View One: The Tragic End To A Shrimp
A shrimp was lodged upon a ship
Which bombed the rival airstrip
He heard the bullets bang and zip
As bombers turned the gay flagship
Into a blazing starship
And that’s what we call popcorn shrimp.View Two: History Records…
The mighty Moorish corsair
Entered into warfare
With Great Britain’s ire
The British sent their airfare
T’was backed by many a prayer
And blew the mighty corsair into air.The disadvantage of vocabulary list poetry is that some of the lines are decidedly unpoetic. But it does force you to get creative. 🙂
@sarah-h Where do you get the vocabulary lists from?
@bluejay I really don’t remember; it was from some homeschool assignment a few years ago.
@sarah-h Can you give me a list yourself then?
@bluejay I could post my brother’s lists from his grammar book, if you want. They wouldn’t be the same as the one I used, but I guess that wouldn’t matter. They’re around 20 words long, I think, but I could post them in 5 or 10 word segments if that’s too long. I guess it depends on how long you want the poem to be. 🙂
Post them all and I’ll use what I can @sarah-h
@bluejay Great! It’s almost 3a.m. here now, so I’ll do it tomorrow. I mean, later today, after I go to sleep and wake up. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! 🙂
@sarah-h 3AM???? How do you manage to stay awake???? It’s almost 8pm here, so I’m off to bed soon too. 🙂
@bluejay Haha! For once we’ll be going to bed at around the same time. 🙂 And I don’t usually stay up this late; tonight is very unusual.
@bluejay Okay, here goes…
Emergency
Meteorologist
Volunteer
Victim
Distributed
Frequently
Electricity
Personally
Bodily
Procedure
Indicative
Imperative
Subjunctive
Declarative
Interrogative
Exclamatory
Exclamation
Interjection
opportunities
Assignment
Satisfactorily
Catalogue
Librarian
HyphenateThat one had a lot of grammar terms in it, so I’ll post the next one too:
Conterminous
Curriculum
Advantageous
Parliamentary
Redundancy
Pistole
Preen
Cud
Obscure
Mettle
Expedite
Sprinter
Doubloon
Academic
Molting
Milestone
Conjugate
Constituent
Ambassador
CollegiateHere’s one that looks more promising:
Gregarious
Rampageous
Tenacious
Vacuous
Capricious
Ambiguous
Ostentatious
Calculable
Amicable
Breathy
Indigenously
Symmetrically
Biannually
Erroneously
Biennially
Unwieldily
Inanimate
Lethargic
Prolific
Domestic
LoutishHave fun! 🙂
@sarah-h Thank you. I’ll see what I can do. 🙂
@bluejay Have you tried this kind yet? I wish I could have found lists with better words in them; the first two look pretty hopeless.
@sarah-h I actually forgot about these lists. I’ll look at them tonight. (I was wondering what I’d be doing) Thanks for reminding me. Will you be around for writing in an hour and a half???
@bluejay I’ll be asleep by then. 🙂 I really want to write some more soon; it’s been getting harder to find a time when my brothers aren’t using all the electronics (I think that’s the wrong word for it, but oh well). Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to write some. 🙂
@sarah-h 🙁 Oh well. I’m sure we will make contact again. 🙂
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