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Poems Blooming-- A Writer's Challenge
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A Writing Challenge for people who need structure and an audience in order to stick to a writing practice--weekly themes and excerises for writers and teachers of writing
- Added on: Sep 6th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: meghan sterling
- Listed in: Poetry How-To
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interlude--I am, you are games
I wanted a little game break between assignments, so here is a fun, endlessly creative one: I am, you are games. The idea is to write without limit--to take yourself out of the desire to mean something, say something, and just have fun with coming u...
echo poem #4
ObsessionI'll do anything to show you that I'm here,where you need me.Daily life will show you,through repetition, my love.Give me my chance. Grant me your trust,thrust yourself into my hands.Demand all of me, each moment.Invent yourself in me, scrut...
Echo poem #3
EchoI don't want to write about it--that's the issue.Tissue-thin skin between me and the world's knowing,going where I must, I ignore the persistent,insistent, ugly thoughts that pursue and creep behind,reminding me as I wander who I hide, and what I...
echo poem #2
The ChallengeI attempt to watch the weather. Now, the windows are frozen,snow's on them, stitched tight in lacy patterns,slattern across the cold glass.Last night, the painful windows shook,broke the silence of the sleeping house, soundedthe pounding...
Echo Poem #1
As I sit, lit by the light of a December morningbaringmyself to the sharp, cold air in my quietflightfrom others, seeking solace, space, stillness,filledwith light like milk in a glasspassedall knowing, all cares, folded inthinas rose petals, delicat...
New assignment: Echo Poems
This week's assignment is one to help play with the notion of rhyming sounds and sound repetition, "Echo Poems". The purpose is not to rhyme directly but to pick up on sounds from the previous word or phrase. I found this exercise in a book by Paul M...
Check your G.U.M. in Cora's quote again honey. Love you.
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