Ariel, Pacific NW poet

Day 15

Today’s prompt is to write a double elevenie.

What’s that? Well, an elevenie is an eleven-word poem of five lines, with each line performing a specific task in the poem. The first line is one word, a noun. The second line is two words that explain what the noun in the first line does, the third line explains where the noun is in three words, the fourth line provides further explanation in four words, and the fifth line concludes with one word that sums up the feeling or result of the first line’s noun being what it is and where it is.

For example:

Noun
Explains noun
Where is noun
Explains noun some more
Emotion/result

A double elevenie would have two stanzas of five lines each, and twenty-two words in all. It might be fun to try to write your double elevenie based on two nouns that are opposites, like sun and moon, or mountain and sea.

Here’s MY example – a double elevenie from last year …

Other PAD challenges are …

• Robert Lee Brewer’s Apr PAD challenge  (Twitter, search #AprPAD.)
• The official NaPoWriMo / GloPoWriMo Challenge. (Twitter, search  #NaPoWriMo2018)
• The Poetry School NaPoWriMo challenge.
• WORDxWord 30/30 challenge on their blog.
• Moore School 30 Day Poetry Challenge – a list of prompts for National Poetry Month.
• Contemporary Verse 2 2-Day challenge. is a twist, it takes place April 14-15. Registration closed.
• Camp NaNoWriMo – for those wanting help starting another novel …

I have uploaded my Pinterest “Ariel’s List” for April if you want to use those.

Want to look up a past prompt?  Maybe one of my past Pinterest “Ariel’s List”?

I’ve made it easy for you. You can find them in my archive on my Poetry Prompts page.