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Fun with poetry
May. 1st, 2003 09:38 amFound this little thing while I was cleaning this morning.
Twenty Little Poetry Projects
1. Begin the poem with a metaphor
2. Say something specific, but utterly preposterous
3.Use at least one image for each of the five senses, either in succession or scattered randomly throughout the poem.
4.Use one example of synethesia (mixing the senses).
5. Use the proper name of a person and the proper name of a place.
6. Contradict something you said earlier in the poem.
7. Change directions or disgress from the las thing you said.
8. Use a word (slang?) you've never seen in a poem.
9.Use an example of false cause-effect logic.
10. Use a piece of "talk" you've heard (preferably in dialect and/or which you don't understand.)
11. Create a metaphor using the following construction, "The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun)..."
12. Use an image in such a way as to reverse its usual associative qualities.
13. Make the persona or character in the poem do something he/she could not do in "real life"
14. Refer to yourself by nickname and in the 3rd person.
15. Write in the future tense, sucht hat part of the poem seems to be a prediction.
16. Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective
17. Make a declarative assertion that sounds convincing but that finally makes no sense
18. Use a phrase from a language other than English
19. Make a nonhuman object say or do something human (personification).
20.Close the poem with a vivid image that makes no statement, but that "echoes" an image from earlier in the poem.
This is actually a really fun thing to do, and you'll laugh at the results. When I get back later, I'll post my old one and write up a new one.
Twenty Little Poetry Projects
1. Begin the poem with a metaphor
2. Say something specific, but utterly preposterous
3.Use at least one image for each of the five senses, either in succession or scattered randomly throughout the poem.
4.Use one example of synethesia (mixing the senses).
5. Use the proper name of a person and the proper name of a place.
6. Contradict something you said earlier in the poem.
7. Change directions or disgress from the las thing you said.
8. Use a word (slang?) you've never seen in a poem.
9.Use an example of false cause-effect logic.
10. Use a piece of "talk" you've heard (preferably in dialect and/or which you don't understand.)
11. Create a metaphor using the following construction, "The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun)..."
12. Use an image in such a way as to reverse its usual associative qualities.
13. Make the persona or character in the poem do something he/she could not do in "real life"
14. Refer to yourself by nickname and in the 3rd person.
15. Write in the future tense, sucht hat part of the poem seems to be a prediction.
16. Modify a noun with an unlikely adjective
17. Make a declarative assertion that sounds convincing but that finally makes no sense
18. Use a phrase from a language other than English
19. Make a nonhuman object say or do something human (personification).
20.Close the poem with a vivid image that makes no statement, but that "echoes" an image from earlier in the poem.
This is actually a really fun thing to do, and you'll laugh at the results. When I get back later, I'll post my old one and write up a new one.
