Image Lists -- To
give us a starting point today, write at the top of your page, or however it
works on your laptop, each of the five senses.
Under each sense, write a list
of concrete images for that sense. Make most of them things you like but throw
in a few you don't like. These images will be your vocabulary for the poems
you'll write today. Idea stolen from Joe Millar, who has a new book: http://www.josephmillar.org/books.html
The Poem(s) --
Poem #1
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write in four line
stanzas. Be sure to refer often to your image lists and use them.
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Line 1 contains a
place name and two of the images from your lists.
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Line 2 contains an
animal, not a dog or cat and three of the images.
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Line 3 repeats at
least one noun or verb from your first line and uses at least one new image.
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Line 4 has two
colors in it and three of the images from your lists.
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Line 5 has someone
riding a bicycle in it, with two list images.
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Line 6 repeats line
2, with variations.
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Line 7 contains a
memory from long ago, with one or more list images.
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Line 8 needs a woman
in a rain-hat and three list images.
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Line 9 pretend this
is a sonnet and give us a turn, use one list image that is one you don't much
like.
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Line 10 if you
haven't yet used the pronoun "I", use it here. If you haven't used
the pronoun "you", use it here, and 4 listed images.
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Line 11 you're on
your own.
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Line 12 repeats,
with variations, line 1.
Poem #2 and any others -- you get the picture of what we're doing here, so make up
your own hurdles or opportunities and keep writing! You might try using
anaphora (begin each line with the same word or phrase, such as Because, or I remember the time....)
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