New Writing Exercise #28 devised by Margaret Wilkinson POETRY COMPETITION   Create a rhyme necklace. Write a concrete noun at the top of a page, at 12 o’clock. At one o’clock write a word or phrase that sounds like your noun (if you chose ‘mud’, you might choose ‘bloody’ or ‘after the flood’). It’s the sound that’s important, not the meaning. Don’t always choose a perfect rhyme: play with chiming sounds that you like. Now go to two o’clock and choose a sound-alike word/phrase for the second ‘bead’ in your necklace, allowing variations to diverge, as in Chinese Whispers. Try to link your last bead, at 11 o’clock, back to your first word at noon. Now form your 12 half- and full rhymes into a poem. • Find out about the Mslexia Poetry Competition
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