Oh Dear!

Hello again from your favorite structure anarchist! I yet again bring you something with form! Never fear, this one has nothing to do with counting!

Actually this is a form that I kinda made up one day for a poetry class in college, I call it the "Dear," form.

Once upon a time a friend and I were joking about our ex boyfriends at the beginning of poetry class and coming forth from that was what we wrote that day!

How to do it? 

Each line of the poem starts with "Dear (name)"
You get one line to say something to an ex or some significant love, example I did my ex boyfriend, my high school crushes, my (then) current boyfriend, my childhood love, etc. Anyways my list ended up to be about 17 names long.
For each name, you get one sentence plus one word (optional) Example: "Dear Steve, at least you made good coffee. Sorry."

Don't have a long enough list? You can go with a list like your bridesmaids, your best friends in college, deceased pets, etc. I've always liked doing this periodically with the same list to see if my feelings have changed towards any of the memories I have of these people. It's a nice reflective exercise I feel, personally I think it pairs well with a glass of wine.

Word prompts: 
Cappuccino
Crashing
Sorry

Sentence prompt: 
The coffee was cold...
Like a sleepy cat...
Do you believe...

Photo of the day:

Photo courtesy of Beverly Tan Photography 

Whatcha think? Write something? Don't forget to tweet/instagram me at @beverlytanfilm #octpowrimo and/or comment below!

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.	Bastet	17.	malia lawrence page	33.	Bullish
2.	Illsa from Team Netherworld	18.	tracesofthesoul	34.	Mark Jones
3.	Cressida	19.	De jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	35.	jazzytower
4.	Sunita Prasad	20.	vivienne blake	36.	Candy
5.	Deepti Agrawal Day 18	21.	TwoPaisePoems	37.	Aishah
6.	Deepti Agrawal	22.	Esther Spurrill Jones	38.	Cara Michaels
7.	Tortured Cyclone	23.	Diary of a Writerbee	39.	Kay Winter
8.	Payal Agarwal	24.	barbara	40.	Camille Wylde
9.	Al the Author	25.	Amrita Paul	41.	Nithya Venkat
10.	Fida Islaih	26.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet	42.	Jennifer Cunningham
11.	Dawn D	27.	TwoPaisePoems	43.	mindlovemisery
12.	Barbara_y	28.	the lull after shilyot	44.	Steph
13.	Nancy Beebe Goolsby Perry	29.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	45.	Ameena k.g
14.	Carol Campbell	30.	Here, There be a Writer	46.	S. Elle Cameron
15.	Misky	31.	Grace Black	47.	Sigrid Saradunn
16.	Ameena k.g	32.	Greg Wolford

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