Inspiration Piece #5

This is an acrostic poem.  An acrostic poem is a poem, that takes the first letter of each line and puts them together to make a word, a person's name, a sentence, or a phrase.

The poem reads: 
"Looking back, she often thought
Of all the things for her, he bought
Vases, diamonds, bracelets galore
Each one from an expensive store
"I don't want these things." she tried to explain
"Splurge not on me...I'm not vain"
Still he bought more and more til one night
Take out dinner just finished, he said with a fright.
"Rena, I'm bankrupt. I have no more money"
"As if I want anything else but you honey."
"Next thing you'll say is you loved me for me."
"Go!.. Rena..you're free!...I'm out of your range."
Easy to see how love is strange..."


I struggled with trying to figure out what to have my last genre be.  So in my thinking process, I went to a website called "http://omegle.com/."  This website allows one to talk, video chat, or ask questions to total strangers on the internet.  I proposed a question asking strangers to name the first writing genre that popped into their head.  Through the obscenities, the book genres of sci-fi and fantasy, and the random conversations about how if you eat snow, it dehydrates you; someone mentioned doing a haiku.  This got me thinking to other genres of poetry, which reminded me of acrostic poetry.  I then, using the browser of "https://www.google.com/," searched for examples of acrostic poetry.  Someone asked the question of "Can you write an ACROSTIC poem with "LOVE Is STRANGE" ? (FOR CREATIVITY'S SAKE!)?" and the best response was the poem you read up above.  I enjoyed it, so I took it and posted it for my inspiration.  You can find the original link here.


Acrostic poetry is what you make of it.  As with all poetry, you can choose whether you want to make it rhyme, have a specific iambic meter, or just write using prose.  All acrostic poetry, however, has it so that the first letter of each word spells out something.  Like I previously mentioned, it could be a sentence, a phrase, a word, or a person's name.  It targets many people from mere children, to poetry enthusiasts, to old people, to literature majors, or to anyone else who possesses a creative mind.