Poetry Six-Word Challenge

Angela of theabundantheartblog presents a wonderful challenge in her “Poetry Six Word Challenge” that captured me! See if it moves you to answer the challenge!

Please enjoy this post and check out Angela’s other great works. Share this with your friends and see if they want to get in on the fun too?

The Abundant Heart

Poetry =
whispers
to your heart


Last night I was batting around some ideas for ways to define poetry in six words—okay, essentially four words, since the first two are “Poetry =” (i.e. Poetry equals). I called for backup from my friend Charles Robert Lindholm of The Reluctant Poet, and together this is what we came up with. Then I decided to make this a challenge to see how many different ways we could all come up with to define poetry in four words.

Many thanks to Nicola Aukland, the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller for the second half of my inspiration, based on her six-word story challenge.

To participate:

  1. Write your 6-word definition, beginning with Poetry = and then add four more words to define what poetry means to you. The number of lines does not matter, only the number of words.
  2. Either post it on your blog or…

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