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    Acrostic Poems...and some prose
    Acrostic Poems...and some prose
    Acrostic Poems...and some prose
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    Acrostic Poems...and some prose

    By Mike Miller

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    Acrostics are a challenging form of writing, a game of words, and fun to create and to read.

    This eBook guides you in creating prose/poetry acrostics. These acrostics are readable on two levels, the content itself, and the "acrostic" message. Acrostics are fun to create, and the "constraint" associated with creating sentences or phrases using a set of letters or words provides a challenge, but is far from an obstacle. At times this "constraint" is an enabler.

    Prose/poetry acrostics come in two varieties: fun and functional.

    Fun acrostics deal with information, feelings, and insights.

    Functional acrostics deal with procedures and processes.

    Here's a fun acrostic (read the first letter of each line):

    Another day, wake up, rise and shine,
    Laugh or curse or roll over,
    Anything for a few more ZZZZs.
    Responsibilities will wait till
    Morning has broken.

    Cock-a-doodle-doo,
    Listen – creatures are stirring.
    Unrelenting – that wakeup call
    Cock-a-doodle-doo
    Knowing the new day has dawned.

    Here's a functional acrostic

    Creative energies. Their fruits
    Often risk being
    Plagiarized, at times undetected
    Yet the author must protect them. A
    Reality, not always sinister.
    Intellectual property
    Generates insight, and value, and
    Holding control over it is
    The essence of the copyright.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Miller
    Release dateJan 16, 2012
    ISBN9781466141087
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      Acrostic Poems...and some prose - Mike Miller

      Acrostic Poems … and some prose

      Published by Mike Miller at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Mike Miller

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover image created using http://www.wordle.net.

      Contributed acrostics, all used with permission:

      Quilting Decisions Copyright Debby Bulmer.

      Genealogy Copyright Victoria L Taylor.

      Infused Imagery Copyright Steven Greene.

      Photos/images attribution:

      Dandelions from www.clker.com.

      Fifteen Puzzle image created by the author.

      Mona Lisa public domain from images www.wpclipart.com/art/Paintings/

      Silence Copyright Rick Bertrand

      Spatial Pattern 2 Copyright Amanda Tomasikiewicz

      The War of Art, Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Copyright Steven Pressman.

      Together Forever image is a fair use of the image, Copyright 2007, The Archaeological Society SAP, in Mantua, Italy

      Rooster Wake Up from www.clker.com

      Winter Sentinel Copyright Patty Perry

      www.clker.com is the online royalty free public domain clip art website.

      Formatting justified text for eBooks is tricky. Last letter acrostics in the print version of this ebook are right justified. Right justification in an ebook is impossible when you consider the reader's opportunity to change font size.

      The cover for the ebook is different from the cover on the printed book; the contents are very similar, the differences include the alphabetic reordering of most of the acrostics, and several minor changes to the text.

      Table of Contents

      A Collection of Acrostics

      A Palette - A Work In Progress I

      A Palette - A Work In Progress II

      Abecedary

      As Napoleon Said

      Awake - Aware

      But Is It Really?

      Change

      Concise

      Dandelions

      Dear Writers Block I

      Dear Writers Block II

      Decision Making

      Edmond Locard

      Equilibrium

      Fifteen

      Financial Planning

      Genealogy

      Happy Birthday

      Happy Thanksgiving

      Hey You, Over Here

      How's that again?

      How Do You Know What You Know?

      I Am Not My Body

      I'm Confused

      Infused Imagery

      Innocence

      Live Your Biography

      Misprint

      Moderation

      Mona Lisa

      Museum of Appalachia

      No Fun Like Snow Fun

      Now It's Your Turn

      Poets

      Quilting Decisions

      Reindeer

      Resistance

      Responsibility

      Risks

      Rule of Thirds

      Sally and Jim

      Silence

      Sir Isaac

      So, How's your Mom, How's your Pop?

      Stop, Look, and Listen

      Take Only Memories

      Talking

      The Juggler's Lament

      The Maze

      The Unexpected

      The War of Art

      Third Dimension

      Together Forever

      Twenty-Foot Ladder

      Twenty-nine

      Untold Stories in the Shoeboxes I

      Untold Stories in the Shoeboxes II

      Wake Up

      Watch and Learn

      Waterfall

      What Do You Mean By That?

      What is Art?

      Where are we going?

      Who Discovered the North Pole

      Why Do I…

      Winter Sentinel

      Wonder

      Wonderful Bedlam

      Write On

      Writing and Reading

      Yonder the Future Beckons

      You Are Here

      Functional Acrostics

      Write Your Own

      Curious About the Uncurious

      New Year Resolutions

      Duplicate Bridge

      Other Acrostic Prompts

      Evaluating Your Acrostic

      Acrostic Words List

      References & Websites

      Some Definitions

      About the Author

      Thanks To…

      _END_CONTENTS_

      Introduction

      Acrostics are a challenging form of writing, a game of words, and fun to create and to read.

      There are two basic types of acrostics, the puzzle variety, and the prose/poetry variety.

      Acrostic puzzles look superficially like crossword puzzles, a formatted grid of white and black squares. The acrostic includes a set of clues with numbers to match cells in the grid. Answers to the clues are entered into numbered spaces, and then transferred into the grid according to the cell numbers. Acrostic puzzles are available in newspapers, word puzzle books and online. They are fun to create and fun to solve, but they are not the subject of this eBook.

      This eBook guides you in creating prose/poetry acrostics. These acrostics are readable on two levels, the content itself, and the acrostic message. Acrostics

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