I’m going to be honest; I’m between poetic forms at the moment, and I’m getting ready for this year’s April Poem-A-Day Challenge. But I want to try playing a little poetic game this week.

You see, I’ve been playing Wordle the past couple months, trying to guess a five-letter word in 6 guesses (or 30 letters). So I thought it might be fun to try writing a poem in 30 letters. Here’s how it would work:

• Write a poem using exactly 30 letters
• Each line should have the same number of letters
• Each line should use one word 
• As such, poems should have one of the following combinations of lines x letters: 6 lines x 5 letters each line (like Wordle); 5 lines x 6 letters each line; 3 x 10; 10 x 3; 15 x 2; 2 x 15; 30 x 1; and I don’t know if there are any 30-letter words, but I suppose such a word could be a one-liner

So let’s see what we get; I hope you’ll poem along.

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Here’s my attempt at a Wordy 30 poem:

“QUEST,” by Robert Lee Brewer

ENTER
BELOW
WHERE
STUMP
WITCH
SINGS