A bingo acrostic

[fuzzyred]

Instinct leads the way
To a decision,
Unsure how to explain to outsiders;
I know my choice is sound
Though you may question my method.
It is something felt, rather than reasoned
Only making sense to me,
Never revealing to others the inexplicable force that guides me down the right path.


For my bingo prompt "Intuition". It's been a long time since I wrote and acrostic poem and this is my first time writing one the way ysabetwordsmith does, as opposed to how I learned. In all of the grade school English classes I remember (as well as the high school ones I believe), we were always told to write acrostic poems with single words starting with the first letter that reflected the main word we were using. Creating longer sentences allows for far more variety and depth, and I like it a lot better.

The first three lines of this hit me randomly at work, so I thought I'd write it all out before I forgot it. Feel free to let me know what you think, but be gentle please, I'm still a novice!

EDIT: I decided to adjust the poem since I forgot the first N the first time, and I think it still works, but I'm going to leave the original version up, since I do like it a lot.

Instinct leads the way,
Next steps highlighted on the invisible path
To making a decision,
Unsure how to explain to outsiders;
I know my choice is sound
Though you may question my method.
It is something felt, rather than reasoned
Only making sense to me,
Never revealing to others the inexplicable force that guides me down the right path.

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[ng_moonmoth]

Well enough written that I didn't notice until a closer reading that it didn't actually have that first "N" line. I liked the thought the first lines expressed, and how they were realized in the following lines.

Keep writing and putting yourself into what you write.

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[fuzzyred]

Crap. I totally didn't notice that until you pointed it out. I'm glad it worked well for you. :)

:D Thanks for the vote of confidence!

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[ng_moonmoth]

I like your solution. Also that you kept the original.

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[fuzzyred]

I'm glad the edit worked. I was a little iffy about it and it took some thinking, but I managed to come up with a line that I thought fit in even though it was an add-on. And yes, I decided to keep the original because the first three lines are how it popped into my head, and writing is a process so I figured a look at all of it wouldn't hurt anything.

[mama_kestrel]

One word acrostic are a teaching tool. Renaissance acrostics, which are the ones I'm most familiar with, use full sentences. (The ones I know are in Spanish, Ladino, or Hebrew, so I'm not quoting here.)

Yours is very well done. It's a clear acrostic without being forced. I like a lot.

[fuzzyred]

I never took any classes where the renaissance variety would have popped up, so I do believe the closest I've seen are Ysabet's.

Thanks! I'm glad it went so well, poetry is a new thing for me.