The Verse Off - Week Four

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Week Four of the Verse Off – and a special welcome to any who may be joining us for the first time! This is the final edition of the Verse Off - for now - so if you’ve been waiting to contribute, here's your chance!

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If you’ve played before, you know the routine. If this is your first time, (feel free to scroll below to past posts and see what we’ve been up to.) here’s the drill…

May is a dual celebration with the release of Kathryn Apel’s humorous rhyming picture book, This is the Mud!,

and Sally Murphy’s a free verse novel, Pearl Verses the World,

To celebrate, each Sunday, we are inviting blog readers to have some fun by responding – in verse – to a prompt. You can choose your style – either free verse (unrhyming) or rhyming verse. This is your chance to prove that your preferred form is the best.

If you want to respond in free verse, please post your response on Sally’s blog, and if writing in rhyme, you can post at Kathryn’s blog, below.

On Monday – we’ll post the verses in a new post for all to see. (Although Kathryn may run a day late this week... So if not all poems are there Monday - check back in on Tuesday...)

Here are the rules:

1. There is no ‘right’ answer to the prompt. Be creative.

2. Limit your response to twelve lines (so there is room for everyone’s response)

3. You can respond in either free verse or rhymed verse. If you’d like to do both, post each at the appropriate blog.

4. This is your work, so add your name, and a link to your website or blog, if you’d like.

5. Everyone is a winner! But there is no winner.

Got it? Great. Then here goes with the final prompt - taken by Sally on her travels…

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Have fun! Remember, this is your last chance... for now!

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Go on... You can do it!