More Poetry Exercises/Erasure Poems

AGENDA:

Spend 15-20 minutes trying out these writing exercises to warm up.

https://hobbylark.com/writing/Five-Poetry-Writing-Exercises

http://www.jacarandapress.org/writing/poetry/index.shtml

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/poetry_writing/poetry_invention_exercises.html

https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson171.shtml

https://www.thoughtco.com/found-poetry-4157546


Try an erasure poem:

http://erasures.wavepoetry.com/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/02/from-snow-city


Rita Dove's ten Minute Spill:
This is something I've assigned several times, both here and when the group met in real-time. It's an assignment that is quick but effective. It was devised by Rita Dove.

Write a ten-line poem. The poem must include a proverb, adage, or familiar phrase (examples: she's a brick house, between the devil and the deep blue sea, one foot in the grave, a stitch in time saves nine, don't count your chickens before they hatch, someday my prince will come, the whole nine yards, a needle in a haystack) that you have changed in some way, as well as five of the following words:

cliff                    blackberry
needle                   cloud
voice                    mother
whir                     lick

Instructions: Write a ten-line poem. The poem must include a proverb, adage or familiar phrase that you changed in some way as well as five of the following words:

cliff                  blackberry

needle            cloud

voice              mother

whir              lick  

You have ten minutes.

I chose the adage “good things come to those who wait.” The change made is this: “the lazy ones spend all their time waiting.”

5 words chosen: needle, voice, mother, lick, cloud



Waiting for Glory

Growing up, his mother would lick all his wounds

And that was the root of the problem

He wasn’t grounded

Whenever he fell, he landed on her cloud

What he destroyed, she carefully stitched new with needle and thread

He didn’t have to lift a finger

He had no voice, she spoke for him

He had no choice, she coddled him

By her account, he was good and good things come to those who wait

It’s just that, the lazy ones spend all their time waiting