Reference no: EM133201932
Please complete two of the writing prompts and submit the poems individually to the submission pages above. Title the poems and in brackets include the name of the prompt you followed.
CHOOSE TWO PROMPTS:
1. Movement:
Make a poem about movement. Use language that moves. Consider things like: meter, vowel melody, rhyme, onomatoepia, cacophony, dissonance and assonance. Try to merge form and content (how the poem sounds should reflect what it is about). Consider also the visual design. Let the layout also Make movement for the reader.
2. Internal Rhyme:
Make a seven line poem on any topic where the last word of each line rhymes with the first word (or close to it) of the next line.
Example:
Try your best to write a poem alone in your room in a chair where you might find inspiration, frustration, hope, despair or laughter. After you've finished writing and fighting with words and rhymes, find someone you hope will care enough to read it.
RHYMES:
Poem-alone
Chair-where
Inspiration-frustration
Laughter-after
Writing-fighting
Rhymes-find
3. Listening for poetry:
Choose one of your Life Writing portfolio workshops to rewrite. Using only fifty to seventy five words from your original post, try to compose a poem that expresses something similar but in a new form. Consider how images, word play and rhythm might be used to Make a experience for the reader.
4. Finding Poetry:
As you keep your distance from people in these very difficult times, search your surroundings for objects. Make a list of the objects that surround you. Describe the objects is vivid detail to create a poem.
5. Longing in Isolation:
Using only sensory language (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell), make a poem as a list of things that you have missed the most since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
6. Dada Poem:
Find an article online. Cut out words or phrases from the article. Using only those words and phrases from the article, paste them together to create a Dada poem.
7. Conflicting Haikus:
Make a Haiku that expresses a feeling.
Make a second Haiku that expresses the opposite feeling.
A Haiku is made up of 3 lines, totalling 17 syllables.
The first line is 5 syllables.
The second line is 7 syllables.
The third line is 5 syllables.