The acrostic poetic form is second on the list of forms at Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides blog. This form makes me think of childhood, and I occasionally play with it just for fun. I wrote one last night under the blog title "Does this poem look illegal?" but the poem is called "Everywhere a Native Born." I took poetic license with the word "xenophobic" in it and you can see where I'm going, perhaps. I lean toward acrostics being a good form for political protests. (but changed it later)
Still playing with acrostic today, I riffed off the actual word "xenophobia" in a new poem. Other than to write about the misleading story regarding the bogus boycott of Arizona Tea, I haven't said much about Arizona losing its mind with its show-your-papers law and kicking teachers with accents out of schools.
Letters of the Law
By Nordette N. Adams
X marks your state of being
Exceptionally hostile, so
Nimble with nefarious gestures
Offering a pretense of innocent,
Patriotic
Housekeeping,
Offensively defending
Borders and exploiting fear, pushing
Insular states of mind, so very
Arizona.
© 2010 Nordette N. Adams
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