Poetry Wednesdays
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: your spouse / partner / best friend and asking for forgiveness.
Your form is: a poetic letter. Use the salutation as the title.
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: your spouse / partner / best friend and asking for forgiveness.
Your form is: a poetic letter. Use the salutation as the title.
Randomly rip a sheet out of an old magazine (a text page, not an image page) cut it into 20 strips lengthwise and then gather the strips together and cut across thirty times. Put the pieces in a cup. Pull out 15 pieces and lay them in front of you so the text is upright….
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: sour milk and strained peaches. Your form is: one stanza of 9 lines. Following this rhyming pattern for the last word of each line. A – A B – B C – A…
For the poetry writers. Your topic is: the effects of commercialism on young women. Your form is: free write for ten minutes then read it over drawing out the best points and arranging the words into a sharp point using how many words necessary to create the peak. a aa aaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaaa aaaaa…
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: a poem you wrote yesterday. Your form is: Oulipo.
For the poetry writers. Even if you do not normally write poetry make an effort to complete this exercise. Your topic is: hate speech. Your form is: abecedarian. Except instead of using the alphabet use each letter of the first line of poem.
Take out a fresh worksheet and finish these five statements about your parents. Don’t read past the questions until you have finished them: I would thank my parents for… It was never easy talking to my parents about… I get the following traits from my parents… My parents and I never agreed on… I always…