Taboo Poetry...A Game
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Be sure to click the image above for today's tour stop on the National Poetry Month Blog Tour! Have you ever played that early 1990's game Taboo from Hasbro? Today, I would invite you all to play along with me as we create a poem in the comments in celebration of National Poetry Month. The object of the game here is to create a poem about the word below, without referring to that word or any of the other 5 words that are most used to describe it. The word is ROMANCE And the forbidden words (and their variations) are: LOVE, BURNING, PASSION, SWEET, HEART So each commenter can write one line for the poem that describes ROMANCE, but does not use that word or the five forbidden words. At the end of the day, I'll collect all the lines and post the full poem next week; It'll be fun to see what all the creative minds out there can come up with. OK, Get started!