This statue of a boy and a girl on a bench is located in an upscale appartment complex. If you look closely you'll see that the girl is looking at an atlas, the boy at a book. The two are colabotating. Thus the inspiration for this poem.


Blitz poems are fun to write and are meant to be read out loud. These poems tend to be wacky and go all over the place. So, you can take the reader on a trip all over the world or to outer space, if you want, or maybe on a picnic or a trip to the zoo, county fair, theme park, etc. It can be a fantasy trip. It's up to you. These poems are exactly 50 lines long. There are specific instructions on how you go about writing these poems and how you title your poem.

The Blitz Poem is a poetry form created by Robert Keim.

This form of poetry is a stream of short phrases and images with repetition and rapid flow.

Begin with one short phrase, it can be a cliche. Begin the next line with another phrase that begins with the same first word as line 1. The first 48 lines should be short, but at least two words.

The third and fourth lines are phrases that begin with the last word of the 2nd phrase, the 5th and 6th lines begin with the last word of the 4th line, and so on, continuing, with each subsequent pair beginning with the last word of the line above them, which establishes a pattern of repetition.

Continue for 48 total lines with this pattern, And then the last two lines (49 and 50) repeat the last word of line 48, then the last word of line 47.

The title must be only three words, with some sort of preposition or conjunction joining the first word from the third line to the first word from the 47th line, in that order.

There should be no punctuation. When reading a BLITZ, it is read very quickly, pausing only to breathe.

The photograph is the author's.

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