Playful PUZZLE POEMS

any forms of poetry have a ludic quality to them, an element of game playing that tests the ingenuity of the writer and gives added pleasure to the reader. The next poetry competition is for acrostic pieces, where a ‘hidden’ message exists if you read down the left hand column of letters in your poem as well as reading across the page. Each line starts with a new letter from the message. Usually the poem comments on the