Write a poem they said Right now in the time limit I can't be so efficient Talent too I'm deficient Oh! how i wish i could collab Still searching for some ideas Please excuse my inefficiencies Had i been as capable as you Easily i could express too Rest assured i would have done Exercised my vocabulary and written Here comes our Second Challenge of the Poetry fest. An Acrostic poem. Acrostic poem An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French term acrostiche. As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic may be called an 'alphabetical acrostic' or abecedarius.