Poem for an Occasion

Write a personal poem for a wedding, birthday, memorial, or apology, built from real details instead of greeting-card abstractions.

Write a poem for [OCCASION: a wedding toast / a 70th birthday / a memorial / an anniversary / an apology / a new baby].

Who it is for: [NAME + YOUR RELATIONSHIP]
Specific details about them (this is the whole poem, be generous):
- Things they say or do that only people who know them would recognize: [LIST]
- A specific memory: [WHAT HAPPENED, WHERE, WHAT WAS SAID]
- Something small and physical about them: [their hands, a jacket, how they answer the phone]
- What I have never said out loud to them: [THE HONEST PART]

Form: [rhyming / free verse / a specific form like a sonnet or villanelle / "you choose and tell me why"]
Length: [LINES]
Read aloud by: [me at a podium / read silently on a card]
Tone: [funny with a turn at the end / plainly tender / bittersweet]

Craft rules:
- Build the poem out of the specific details above. A poem about "love" and "the journey ahead" could be for anyone; a poem about the way they hum while cooking could only be for them.
- One image should recur and change meaning by the end.
- If it rhymes, the rhyme cannot force a word. A slightly off rhyme is better than a line that had to bend to reach it.
- Earn the emotional line. Put the most direct sentence in the poem near the end, after the images have done the work.
- Avoid: journey, tapestry, chapter, forever and always, "words cannot express", and anything that would fit inside a card bought at a supermarket.

Give me three versions with different approaches, labeled with what each one is doing. Then one line on which you would read aloud and why.

How to use

Everything depends on the details block, so spend five minutes there and one minute on the rest. Generic input produces greeting-card output no matter how good the instructions are, and the fastest way to feel this is to fill in only the occasion and compare. If a line lands wrong, change the detail behind it rather than asking for a rewrite of the line. Read the winner aloud before you commit; poems that scan on the page can be unspeakable at a podium.

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