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The 60 Second Poetry Challenge 🍇 ✍️

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60 seconds. One bunch of grapes. One very important rule: you can’t use the word “grapes”. 🍇✍️

The We Do team were given a simple creative challenge: write a poem about the fruit sitting in front of them without actually mentioning its name.

Turns out, removing one fairly essential word makes poetry significantly harder.

What followed was 60 seconds of rhymes, panic, creative thinking and some fairly questionable literary choices as everyone attempted to channel their inner poet.

Were any masterpieces created? We’ll let you be the judge.

English literature is still recovering. 📚

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