An acrostic is a type of poem in which each line starts with the letters that spell out the name of the thing that the poem is all about. Teachers love getting children to write acrostic poems (maybe it's the spelling thing?) but they don't seem to be as popular with poets. Double acrostics are even more ridiculous. Each line has to end with the same letters that they started with, like for instance....G od it's frustratin G...
I'm off to a school in Hastings tomorrow and one of my many mission's was going to involve getting some children to produce a double acrostic about holes that they could later develop into a dance with a professional dancer. And to do it all in twenty minutes. But as it took me so long, far too long, to write the thing below, I think I'll stick to a single acrostic tomorrow...
H ard to get hold of like breath and the trut H
O ften admired for it's art on the pol O
L ook out! or they might kil L
E mptiness is everything they ar E
S pades might've made them. Or maybe spoon S
Do feel free to post your favourite double-acrostics below. x
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