The Verse Off - Week Two

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Welcome to week two of the versatile verse off. If you’ve visited previously, you probably understand the concept by now, but if you’ve come in late, read on to understand what’s happening. (And feel free to browse through the last two collections while you're here. We've been having lots of fun with this!)

May is a dual celebration with the release of Kathryn Apel’s This is the Mud!, a humorous rhyming picture book, and Sally Murphy’s Pearl Verses the World, a free verse novel.

To celebrate, we are inviting blog readers to have some fun by responding – in verse – to some prompts. 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. So are you versed in rhyme – or free? May is your chance to find out!

Each Sunday in May we’ll post the prompt on both blogs, http://www.sallymurphy.blogspot.com/ and http://katswhiskers-thewritestuff.blogspot.com/ and invite readers to post their verse responses.

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.

The next day – Monday – we’ll post the verses in a new post for all to see.

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 new prompt – taken by Sally in her recent travels.



Over to you. Write your response to this photo (remember twelve lines or less) and, if it rhymes, post it in the comments section below.

If you're writing free verse, head over to Sally's blog.

Don’t forget to add your name – and link, if you have one. And check back tomorrow to see your poem featured.

Go on - have a go. It's lots of fun!

And thank you for celebrating the birth of our two books with us.
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