Looping Around

Alrighty, I think OctPoWriMo's greatest effect on me is that it's made me appreciate form more. Or maybe I needed more pushes to do something besides scribble letters on napkins at the wine lounge. I like circles. My filmmaker heart gets super happy when I see things come back and the full circle becomes complete so that's what I'm thinking about today as I write this post.

Today we are exploring loop poetry!

This one is a fairly freeform compared to some of the other ones, and I promise it's easier than the paradelle!

How to Loop: 
There are no restrictions on meter or syllables or rhyme schemes (YAY!)
BUT we have a few rules!

• Take the last word of a line. Skip a line. Use that word as the first word of that line. 
• I know, sounds harder than it is, so basically take the last word of the FIRST line and use it as the first word of the THIRD line. Take the last word of the SECOND line and use it as the first word of the FORTH line. Last word of the THIRD line is the first word of the FIFTH line. And it keeps going on and on like that. 
• Some people do it by stanzas. 
• There is also a variation where there's no skipping and the last word of the line simply becomes the first word of the next line. Simpler, but personally I think it's a LOT harder. 

Got it? Sounds fun right! 

Word Prompts: 

Cycle

Transparent 

Petrichor- the scent of rain on dry earth 

Rarity 

Sentence Prompts: 

So it started... 

Pretty as a... 

Tiptoeing around the... 

Photo of the day: 

Photo by Beverly Tan Photography 

Dress and modeling by Olivia Mears at Avant-Geek 

Wrote something? As always link up below and tweet/instagram me at @beverlytanfilm #octpowrimo so I can share it! 

I love hearing what you think and remember, these prompts are just suggestions and my attempts to inspire some muse. 

Share your poetry with us by linking up. Make sure you visit your neighbors one or two before and after. If you are last on the list go back to the beginning of the list. If you are the first few on the list please go back to the day before and visit the last on the list if you haven't already. Have fun!

1.	Cressida	15.	Misky	29.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
2.	Deepti Agrawal	16.	madeline brownback	30.	S. Elle Cameron
3.	Sadie from Team Netherworld	17.	benji	31.	Candy
4.	Tournesol at Tracesofthesoul	18.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	32.	Grace Black
5.	AmritaPaul	19.	Nithya Venkat	33.	Kay Winter
6.	shilyot	20.	TwoPaisePoems	34.	Aishah
7.	Bastet	21.	Esther Spurrill Jones	35.	Steph
8.	Angela	22.	Al the Author	36.	Diary of a Writerbee
9.	Sunita Prasad	23.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	37.	Mark Jones
10.	April	24.	vivienne blake	38.	Camille Wylde
11.	Dawn D	25.	Lynne	39.	Jennifer Cunningham
12.	Payal Agarwal	26.	barbara	40.	mindlovemisery
13.	Carol Campbell	27.	scribblesmcgee	41.	Tortured Cyclone
14.	jazzytower	28.	Here, There be a Writer	42.	Sigrid Saradunn

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