Today has been designated as Poem in Your Pocket day by Poets.org. What that means is you carry your favorite poem around all day and share it with someone or everyone you come in contact with. If you don't want to carry it around all day post your favorite poem on your blog and let people know you support poetry.
Take a page of a newspaper and circle six words or phrases that you like. Then write a poem incorporating the six words and feed them into the poem gradually.
Excerpted from The Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry by Nikki Moustaki, pg. 291. Writing exercise by Charles Harper Webb.
Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.
The Years to Come by Nodes of Ranvier released September 13, 2005. Record label: Facedown Records.
An excerpt from "Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish:
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of encasement ledges where the moss has grown--
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
Write your own ars poetica. In your poem, explain what a poem should be.
Excerpted from Poetry The Daily Sparks, pg. 170.
The rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic or dimeter and the other lines are octasyllabic or tetrameter.
Here's an example
Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.
Friday 5
column
ram
riveted
bail
break
Here's a video of the first waterfall I spoke about yesterday. Please excuse the garbage in the lower right corner. Some people don't understand how to enjoy the beauty around them.
An excerpt from Frank O'Hara's poem "The Day Lady Died":
and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing
O'Hara uses a stream-of-consciousness technique in this poem, noting passing images and feelings without bothering with grammar. This technique makes the reader understand the urgency and confusion the speaker feels when he learns of Billie Holiday's death.
Think of a shocking moment in your life and write a poem about it, capturing the feelings you experienced by using stream-of-consciousness techniques.
Excerpted from Poetry The Daily Spark, pg. 90.
The morning sun splintered its way through white clouds as we began our journey to Grayson, KY. We felt the warm air preening our skin as we glided across the AA highway. Blooming trees shared their first starts of color with pride.
We were going to hike and take pictures alongside the deep edges of Grayson lake. We could hear the first of two waterfalls approaching our ears. We inched our way to the overhang and snapped one picture, then another, somewhat intrusively until we captured the heart of her song.
Three people.
A cold morning.
One vacant movie house.
Write your poem, go.
Excerpted from The Pocket Muse Endless Inspiration by Monica Wood.
Create a poem using this line Baboons and Periwinkles from Wallace Stevens' Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock.
Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.
Pregnant Statue by Clarice was originally uploaded to Flickr. The pregnant statue stands in Vltava River- Prague beside Charles Bridge.
Begin with the words: As long as I have you here...
Excerpted from The Pocket Muse Endless Inspiration by Monica Wood, pg. 178.
The terzanelle is a poetry type which combines the villanelle and terza rima forms. A 19 line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets/ tercets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the first triplet appear as refrains. The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the center line of the next to the last stanza which appears in the quatrain. The rhyme and refrain scheme for the triplets are as follows:
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. b
5. C
6. B
7. c
8. D
9. C
10. d
11. E
12. D
13. e
14. F
15. E
Ending Type 1:
16. f
17. A
18. F
19. A
Ending Type 2:
16. f
17. F
18. A
19. A
Each line of the poem should be the same metrical length.
Here's an example
Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.
Friday 5
spark
wretched
negative
crouch
web
Today take a piece of paper and fold it in half lengthwise. Keeping the paper folded, list eight nouns down the page. Now, choose any activity you are familiar with: basketball, gardening, writing, eating, sunbathing, sleeping. With the paper still folded, turn it to its blank side and list fifteen verbs that describe the activity; basketball might include dribble, pass, dunk, shoot. Now unfold the paper and connect the verbs to the nouns from your first list in surprising ways. Let one or more of these combinations serve as an image to begin a piece of writing.
Excerpted from Room To Write by Bonnie Goldberg.
T. S. Eliot's famous poem The Waste Land begins:
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Write a poem that begins in a similar way. Use any month you want and any superlative adjective that fits. For example, you might begin your poem with the line, "June is the softest month."
Excerpted from Poetry The Daily Spark.
Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth.
I am currently taking Pam Carriker's Visual Journaling 101 class over at Creative Workshops. I finished the last of seven background pages today. Sometime during the upcoming week I will go through my epherma and start collaging my pages. I've been so excited about the whole process and can't wait to see the finished journaling. I've posted two of the seven pages here for you to see. Hope all is well with everyone. Happy Easter~
Poefusion #30
Pick a favorite poem and make a new poem by adding lines of your own between each pair of original lines.
Here's an example; Added line in bold.
Morning Song
by Sylvia Plath
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
Bewildered with sleep
In my Victorian nightgown.
If you choose, play around with the other poet's punctuation, verb tenses or noun articles.
Excerpted from Poetry warm up activities The Daily Spark, pg. 25.
Created by Hellon, loop poetry has unlimited stanzas and no set syllable count. In each stanza the last word of each line becomes the first word of the next with a rhyme scheme of abcb. For variations of this form and an example click here.
Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.
Friday 5
puzzle
throbbed
frisson
perpetual
submerged
Poefusion #29
Choose ten random letters of the alphabet, and write them at the top of a blank page. Example: C, W, I, T, S, N, E, M, B, R. Using words that begin with these letters, in the same order, write a poem.
Excerpted from The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood.
Poefusion #28
In the third line of his poem "What Gypsies Told My Grandmother While She Was Still a Young Girl," Charles Simic uses a zeugma:
You'll chop onions and pieces of your heart into the same hot skillet.
A zeugma is a device in which one word applies to two nouns in different ways. In Simic's poem, "chop" describes an everyday activity and acts as a painful metaphor. Another example of a zeugma is "He stole my money and my soul."
Come up with a zeugma of your own and use it in a poem.
Excerpted from pg. 14 of Poetry warm up activities The Daily Spark.
Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.
Weeping Clown by Cesar Austudillo was originally uploaded to Flickr. A graffiti in Rincón de las Heras, Villalba, Madrid, Spain.
Poefusion #27
Write about a noise-
or a silence-
that won't go away.
Excerpted from The Pocket Muse by Monica Wood.
Created by Adelaide Crapsey, a cinquain is a five line poem which consists of a 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllable count.
Here's an example:
Three Silent Things
by Adelaide Crapsey
These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... the hour
Before the dawn... the mouth of one
Just dead.
Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.
Friday 5
a sealed envelope
an unidentifiable sound
a rare bird
a broken clock
orange sneakers
Poefusion #26
Write about something on the verge of collapse: building, bridge, marriage, contest, institution, alliance, certainty.
Excerpted from The Pocket Muse Endless Inspiration by Monica Wood.
What are you reading? Share your book title, author name and a brief description about what you are reading. My hope is that Poefusionists can find that next great read.
Poefusion #25
The poster for National Poetry Month features a line from T. S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Keeping this theme in mind try writing something about the universe today.
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