Fashion Poem Prompt / Poem Prompt of Fashion — Prompt Three

Prompt Three — “New Fashion Forms / New Forms of Fashion,” based on Episode 403 of ProRun, in which the designers are prompted to design a menswear look, something many of them have never done before

Write a poem using a form you’ve never worked with before. Choose from the following: haibun, triolet (example found in the Graphic of Fashion above), jeu parti.

Postscript: And if you’ve worked in all of the forms previously mentioned, or if you’re just feeling really spiffy today, then you are a fabulously special person who, instead of working in the previously mentioned forms, must write a sestina (a webpage with an easy to read diagram of a sestina can be found here) using your choice of six of the following fashionable words/phrases:

diamond heart necklace
crystal earrings
smoothie
dramatic
oversized sweater
sprouts
leggings
fox
I wouldn’t be caught dead
doctors who can help
boots
that was exhausting!

Have fun!

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4 Responses to “Fashion Poem Prompt / Poem Prompt of Fashion — Prompt Three”

  1. Matt Says:
    April 16, 2008 at 1:34 pm | Reply

    I seem to have telepathically anticipated your prompt–only I chose a form that’s not in your list–the canzone, the sestina’s weird cousin.

  2. zeldafitzgerald Says:
    April 16, 2008 at 1:59 pm | Reply

    Oooo! Very, very nice! So I’m posting what I found on the internets in regards to the form of the canzone. Do let me know if this is accurate if you’re able, Matt:

    stanza 1: ABAACAADDAEE
    stanza 2: EAEEBEECCEDD
    stanza 3: DEDDADDBBDCC
    stanza 4: CDCCECCAACBB
    stanza 5: BCBBDBBEEBAA
    tornado: ABCDE

    I also found that Dante and Boccaccio wrote them. Dante? Whatev. But Boccaccio? Yes, he is most certainly lewd and lascivious enough for me.

    Hooray! Yes, a canzone shall most certainly appear before April 30th on this blog. Thank you very much!

  3. Matt Says:
    April 16, 2008 at 3:05 pm | Reply

    Yep, that’s the pattern I used.

  4. zeldafitzgerald Says:
    April 17, 2008 at 8:21 am | Reply

    Thank you oh so much! Now I am going to go read your canzone. . .

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