Mirror mirror on the wall“Mirror mirror on the wall” by kevin dooley is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Young writers love Acrostic Poems (note: there is plenty of heated debate about whether an Acrostic is really a poem) because Acrostic poems can be easy to visualize — just use the letter of a word written vertical that the poem is about, writing each line horizontal.

A Reverse Acrostic comes at the concept from the other mirrored angle — here, you make the letters of the last word of each line, as read downward vertical, be the name of the thing the poem is about. So, instead of starting with a letter, you end with a letter.

Write a short Reverse Acrostic. Either capitalize or use some fancy font tricks or formatting to make the Acrostic word (now on the right side of the Tweet) visible.

Armed with cans of paint, I aM
slipping tiny brushes onto A
canvas of feathers when — acK
– the world spills over, and accidental art is completE

 

 

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