Writing poems with the words of the day
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I have been writing poems that contain words of the day from Merriam-Webster. Most of those poems are in free verse. Doing this prevents me from the inevitable writer's block and keeps my Twitter page somewhat active.
Here is a sample of a poem with some words of the day:
A fatuous mistake
Could've been prevented
With a lot of knowledge.
Someone was drubbed
By a person with
More wisdom than them.
The more they could've known,
The more gallant they could've become
In dealing with that someone.
(The words of the day that I used are fatuous, drub, gallant.)
My current goal is to use every word that is posted in 2021 from Merriam-Webster's Twitter page in my poems. If you are unfamiliar with certain words from those poems, you can always check the words of the day from the link that I have provided.
In the future, I will probably use the words that I wrote in the past from my personal notebooks.