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Something Fun

When going through some old projects I found something that might be fun for all the members!

Poetry Project
You can write poetry!  This introductory exercise will help you open the door to your creativity.  If you have never written poetry, it will help guide you through your first poem.  If you are a poet already, this will help you expand your repertoire.  This is a free verse poem, so there is no rhythm or rhyme.  Instead focus specifically on your word choice.

Write one line for each numbered direction

1)  Begin the poem with a metaphor (a comparison of two unlike things)
      Ex: Morning comes on like a wink in the dark
2)  Say something specific but utterly perposterous
      Ex: It's me it's winking at
3)  Use an image (a word picture) that appeals to at least one of the five senses
      Ex: Mock light lolls in the boughs of the pines, a blue jay jabbers like nobody's business
4)  Use one example of synethesia (mixing of the senses)
      Ex: Morning tastes the way a rock felt kissing me on the eye
5) Use the proper name of a person and the proper name of a place
      Ex: a kiss thrown by Randy Shellhourse on the Jacksonville, Arkansas, Little League Field because we were that bored in 1965
6)  Contradict something you said earlier in the poem
      Ex: We weren't that bored in 1965
7)  Change direction or digress from the last thing you said
      Ex: Dogs ran amuck in the yards of the poor and music spilled out every window though none of us could dance
8)  Use an appropriate slang word you've never seen in a poem
      Ex: None of us could do the Frug, the Dirty Dog
9)  Use an example of false cause-and-effect logic
      Ex: because we were small and wore small hats
10)  Use a piece of "talk" you've actually heard (preferably in dialect and which you don't understand)
      Ex: Moon go away, I don't love you no more was the only song we knew by heart
11)  Create a metaphor using the following construction:  "The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun)...."
      Ex: The dull crayons of lust and meanness scribbled all over our thoughts
12)  Use an image in such a way as to reverse its usual associative qualities
        Ex: We were about as happy as headstones
13)  Make the persona or character in the poem do something he/she could not do in real life
        Ex: We fell through the sidewalk and changed color at night
14)  Refer to yourself by nickname and in the third person
        Ex: Little Darry was there to scuff through it all
15)  Write in future tense, such that part of the poem seems to be a prediction
        Ex: so that today, tomorrow, the day after that he will walk backward among the orphaned trees
16)  Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective
        Ex: and toy rocks that lead him nowhere I could ever track till he's so far away, so lost
17)  Make a declarative assertion that sounds convincing but that finally makes no sense
        Ex: I'll have to forget him to know where he's gone
18)  Use a phrase from a language other than English
        Ex: la gave pullet du soir est toujours avec moi-
19)  Make a nonhuman object say or do something human (personification)
        Ex: even as the sky opens for business, even as shadows kick off their shoes
20)  Close the poem with a vivid image that makes no statement, but that echoes an image from earlier in the poem
        Ex: even as this torrent of clean morning light comes flooding down and over it all

just try something new and enjoy it.  By the way the small text is not my poem...it is one that came with the instructions.



That is all I have for now.  

Any questions, comments, or just want to say howdy.... do so!

your ever working founder,
tarelgal