Always fun to try but often difficult to write well, acrostics are formed by starting each line with a word that begins with a letter of the very thing you are writing about.

When completed, you should be able to read that word—i.e., the subject of your poem—vertically, down the left-handside of the page. For example:

Brilliant
As the setting sun
Red and gold,
Bringing joy to
Anyone who
Dwells here—if
Only she was treasured like the
Star she is.

©by Linda M. Deane (2012)

or

Terrifically
Intelligent
Artistic
Nosey
Noisy—
As always!

WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW!
Compose an acrostic of your own uusing the letyter P-O-E-M.