Silence was the only medal he kept visible.Once, I asked what Korea was like.Left the room. Didn't answer for two days.Didn't answer the third day either, just handed me a photo.In it, three boys laughing, none of them him anymore.Every year on the right date, the flag goes up without a word.Return was the one part he never actually did.
The poet asked for: An acrostic, first time for me. SOLDIER down the left margin. Tell me if it reads as a poem first and a trick second, or the other way around.
About the acrosticA poem whose first letters, read down the page, spell a hidden word.
In an acrostic, the first letters of the lines spell something when read downward, often a name or a word the poem is about. The poem can rhyme or not, and the lines can be any length. The hidden word is the only rule.
The shape The first letter of each line, read downward, spells a word, name, or phrase.
Listen for Read down the first letters of the lines, then see how the word shapes the poem.
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Writes short, writes often. Will tell you if a line is doing nothing.
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