Third Poetry Prompt Results

Three Poetry Writing Exercises

3. Lyrics and Musicality

Choose a catchy song that you enjoy and rewrite the lyrics, but stick to the rhythm and meter. Try to go way off topic from what the original lyrics were about. You can play the song while you work on the exercise or search for the lyrics online and use those as your baseline. The idea is to get your mind on the musicality in your writing.

Home of the chocolate bar

There is a store in the neighborhood
They call the Chocolate Bar
It draws chocoholics from all around
I can walk, don't need a car

My mother liked her candy bars
Milk chocolate was her choice
I'm not that particular
If it's chocolate, I rejoice

The only thing a chocoholic needs
Is to get another fix
I don't care if it's a Snicker's bar
Or a broken off part of a Twix

O Weight Watchers tell your members
not to do what I have done
to finish a bag of snack size bars
before Halloween had begun