Prompt! The Research Edition
Prompt! is a regular feature, in which a BPRLive contributor will post a prompt for you to make whatever you are compelled to with it. If you’d like to share, post your response (like a poem, thoughts or sudden/micro fiction) or a link to your response (like a blog post, scanned drawings, video, an mp3 of a music composition or photos) in the comments section of the Prompt! blog post.
The contributor will (probably) also respond to the prompt and post that in the comments section at some point.
An “acrostic” is a form of poetry in which the first letter, word, or syllable of each line combines to form a coherent phrase or message. For many elementary school students, an acrostic is the first form of poetry they write. You know, you write the letters of your name down the left side of the paper, then you write a poem with those letters as the first letter of each line. Familiar?
So today’s Prompt! is to write another acrostic just like you did in 2nd grade, but with some slight modifications. Please read on:
Look at the “Random Posts” to the right of this page. Click on the title that looks most interesting to you.
Starting from the beginning of that post, find the first word that contains the first letter of your name and write it down. If your name is Steve, and you see the first word with an S is “obnoxious” then write it down; if your name is Erica, and the first word with an E is “the,” write it down.
Go on and find the next word that contains the next letter in your name; now write that one down. And so on and so on until you’ve found every letter in your name once.
You now have the first words of every line in a modified acrostic poem you are about to write. Have fun!
Oh, and let us know which Random Post inspired your masterpiece.
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5 comments
noticed dwight on
the blog post, and it made me write
here, in response.
BPR may have taken a small hiatus, but we have not for-
gotten about you. we are
busy, but can always find time to show some love. it’s
as easy as one click away.
(http://www.bprlive.org/2008/04/18/find-me-non-asian-eugenes/)
Appeared frazzled, she noted.
The boy wasn’t quite put together. Ready to
Launch into a new dawn,
T-radio, T-girls, T-shirts,
An era full of sleepless nights begins with this.
http://www.bprlive.org/2007/10/12/and-keep-feeding-you-and-feeding-you/
Giles, sweet visual aid! Here’s my response:
As history speaks through our stories and actions, its poetry is written into our minds and hearts, and it continues to forge our world and alter us, often changing first our perceptions.
Regular habits lose some meaning to become imbued with others, from subtle to blaring.
Readers and listeners of history learn messages that do not trap us in the past, nor isolate us in the present but free us in the future.
Of all the worlds that could and should have been, we have and know intimately only the world that was and strive to nurture it into better health.
from eugene’s post “The Long Journey Home” — thanks for this post, eugene: http://www.bprlive.org/2008/05/25/the-long-journey-home/
my entry: three years
(this is random: but i didn’t know where else to say it!)
have you noticed that everywhere, everyone these days is using the term prompt?
i’ve been seeing it all over the place, in so many different contexts.
is this a new term? (like when everyone started saying “purposeful” )
or am i just noticing the word usage more b/c it’s a bprlive segment?