One of four this week

It would appear I owe you, my faithful readers, four posts this week as I only put two up last week. As I mentioned earlier, I want to try out weekly themes and see how we all like it. Let me know if this works for you….

The theme this week was suggested by Graphite Bunny (the only one to respond to my request for feedback. Thank you kind sir!).

He said: I think you should do a themed week on the space in which you live. Maybe writing and or photography describing its magnificence as well as its grotty bits (possibly the characters in it).

Theme: the space in which you live.

You can write or post pictures along with the writing or interpret this theme in any way you like. I’ll still post exercises that you can use with the theme in mind. Join in people, this’ll be fun. If there are some really good contributions to this I’ll feature them on here…..

Summer where I live:)

Ugly Poem

First of all, I know I’ve been neglecting this blog and have decided to commit to posting three times a week on here otherwise I’ll procrastinate.

Here are some exercises for you!

 

1. Write a really ugly poem.

2. Quickly pick out 12 words from the titles of books on a nearby bookshelf. Use them in a poem.

3. Write a poem with an invented biography for yourself.

4. Take a 1-2 page poem from a book and re-type it backwards—from the very last word in the poem all the way to the very first, keeping the lines the same lengths as they are in the book. Use this as the starting point of a poem, picking out the word formations that are particularly interesting to you.

 

I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with! I promise to post at least one of the exercises that I do. By way of apology for my neglect here is a tomato poem for you. Belated (I actually wrote it the same day I posted the tomato exercise but didn’t think it was any good. Still not sure it’s any good but I’ll put it up anyway.), but better late than…well, you know.:D What I did with this poem is look up synonyms for the colour red and use them in the poem…

Oh tomato

garnet globes

rosy skin smooth to the touch

like a cheek

blushing beautifully

ruddy

round

vermilion sweet in sauces

florid fruit

heavy in the green hands of the vine.