In celebration of National Poetry Month @murisopsis from A Different Perspective is once again hosting a poetic scavenger hunt. This year’s theme is “nonce” form poetry. What is nonce form poetry? Well, it’s basically a form that was created by a poet for their own use. What’s interesting about a nonce form is that if it is adopted by other poets and used more often it will no longer be considered a nonce form, but rather become recognized as a “valid” poetical form.
The scavenger hunt features thirteen nonce form challenges all to be completed within the month of April. I highly encourage you to check out the prompts and participate here.
Ok, now onto the twelfth challenge…The Helipad
The Helipad
Sangeetha
A poem of 9 lines. All lines begin and end with the letter H which is capitalized and bonded. All words in line 5 are also capitalized and bolded. All lines should be of equal physical length (including words and spaces) to create the shape of a helipad.
Bonus: use an animal in the poem
I never realized how many words end with H! I cheated a little bit on the spacing to make the line lengths work, but it was worth it to make the visual just right.
Be well,
Monty
Monty’s Blahg 
Love how you integrated the topic of flight into the form….
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Thanks!!
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Your poem Hovering saviours landed beautifully ❤️ I love the words and I love way you have designed the Helipad!
Sangeetha
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Thank you! It was fun to puzzle it out. Thanks for the interesting form to play with!
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😊 very happy to see the Helipad land so well.
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This form is a real brain tickler! I love a challenge and Sangeetha’s form provided a great one… I’m impressed that your helipad look so even! I found that the spacing was the hardest part of writing the poem!!! Your spacing is perfection!
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I had to do the poem as an image to get the spacing right.
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Great and love your helipad too 🙌
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Thanks so much 🙂
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