A concrete poem is formatted to form a shape that relates to the subject of the poem. Enjambment is stretching a grammatical sentence from one line of verse to the next.
Aunt Beulah
living well to age well
A concrete poem is formatted to form a shape that relates to the subject of the poem. Enjambment is stretching a grammatical sentence from one line of verse to the next.
Aunt Beulah 
Extremely clever Janet!!
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Thank you, Barbara. I always appreciate hearing from you.
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This made me smile.
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It was fun to write, Dan, but because of the constant deadlines, I feel like I’m publishing rough drafts. I think when the challenge is over, I’ll rework this one.
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Yes, you are a clever boots, and you were worried about poetry, ppfaaw- I learned me something, and will try with my favorite nonsense bird- The Noble Onecan- cheers.
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You keep putting all these ideas out there, Sheila, and I can hardly wait to see the results, especially Onecan.
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I admire your tenacity. You have such capacity. That’s why I don’t write poetry. I can make rhymes with no sense sometimes.
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I like it that you understand the tenacity involved, and I think I’ve always had more tenacity than talent. You lied in your comment: it has both rhyme and sense. More importantly, it made me laugh as I gear up to try to answer today’s challenge.
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I LOVE this one. It made me smile! How in the world did you manage to format it? I would have expected it would have been much harder than the elegy. (I’m catching up on my reading…hanging out in bed, on my last day in Mexico.
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Oh, I hate hearing it’s your last day in Mexico. Does that mean you’ll take a blogging break until the next trip? If so, I’ll miss you. Formatting paramecium was quite a journey. I did it in Word, centered it, broke the lines to alter length, printed it, used a Sharpie to draw the cilia around it, made my husband photograph it, then loaded the photo onto the blog.Then I ate chocolate and took a nap.
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I was wondering the same thing as Shelley—how on earth did your format your paramecium? After all that effort I’m happy to hear that you rewarded yourself with chocolate and a nap!
Very ingenious, Janet!
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Thanks, Rita, I’ll only add that I felt like the formatting got in the way of my polishing the poem and making it stronger, so I’ll probably never write another concrete poem again.
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