Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
The task for Day 8 is to write two eight-line poems—one that excludes eight letters of the alphabet, one that consists of only eight letters. This was harder than I thought it would be.
1
Examine fame:
every meter rent
every fine taken
a mint never fenced
every variance in time
every vacancy mine
a cancer
I revile
2
Should plush owls
hold up lush hops
shush
Should slow owls
push spud shops
slow down
Should lush owls slosh
howl loud
(8 April 2019)


I love that slush owls section. I even had to read it slowly to try to ‘pronounce’ it in my head. Delightful
A harder exercise than I expected. Since I chose to not use d, h, l, o, p, s, u, and w for the first part of that prompt, I used only those letters for the second part. I was getting pretty much nowhere until I realized that “would” and “should” were two of the words I could make from those letters.
I just love it! Can I use it somewhere and credit you? It’s like a puzzle.
Yes—but if you mean the prompt itself, the credit for that should go to Chris Jarmick, at the link included in the post.
Thankyou! I will hope to just use the words. Will ping you when I do! 🙂 x