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A Poetry Exercise and Write Off Challenge!Mar 07 '04 (Updated May 17 '05) Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line It is time for another fun write-off! This time it is in honor of National Poetry Month in April.
Forget Tax time and begin celebrating National Poetry Month early! Along with spring cleaning and having a garage sale, do you want to take your muse out of storage, shake him or her out, and get started writing? Face it, April is just around the corner, and life doesn’t slow down for anyone. As writers, we can never escape our love for words. Why not take the time to have some fun with them? Start playing with words again and write a Found Poem. Here are a few tips for composing a Found Poem: 1. Take one of your big volumes of poetry, short stories, movie guides, church hymnals or any book that will have an index. Turn to the index and pick and choose titles and words. You might come up with selections like these from the back of an index: -Down Under -Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid -Not -Forms -Soul Food -Picture This -Making Clay -Altars -Bathrooms You’ve Known -Water Sources -When is it Clean? -What Your Nose Knows -Driving Forces **These titles were taken from the index in the book Room To Write by Bonni Goldberg.** 2. Take the words and mess around with them. And if you want to, add some of your own words in the mix. There are no real rules. Also take the time to arrange and think about line breaks and word placing. You might get a funny little poem something like this: Toil-Ets by Jennifer B. Hollis Picture This, Altars of Bathrooms You’ve Known. Water Sources following What Your Nose Knows. Not Forms, but Driving Forces chanting, “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.” Asking amid swirls of blue, “When is it Clean?” Soul Food is Down Under, Making Clay. Found poems are simply lighthearted and are meant to be silly and fun to read. Lists can be found anywhere: The personal ads in the paper, songs of the back of a CD's jewel case, your own grocery list, brochures floating around your house, or any kind of directions. Let yourself run wild and see what you can come up with. And if you try this exercise and like what you’ve created, share it with the rest of us and post it in the Epinion’s Writer’s Corner under Humour Poetry. This is my poetry challenge to you! Writing a found poem sort of reminds me of those childhood afternoons spent finger painting. It can be messy, but it can be a lot of fun! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If you want to start celebrating National Poetry Month in April early, join this Poetry Write-Off – Leave me a comment or email me with any questions at loislane05@yahoo.com, and I’ll add you to a list on my profile page. Rules are simple. Make sure you put Found Poem w/o in the title of your submission, and in your submission's introduction before your poem, give homage to April as National Poetry Month, and let everyone know where you grabbed your inspiration from for writing your Found Poem. Write-off starts now and ends April 30, 2004. Found Poem Write-off Participants: mothermeatloaf DavidMac treeseed LILvoyce barakah59 Jev04again captaind Donnie013 4paws KevinEC LoisLane05  |
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