Cherry Trees
Pink pedals sprinkle the grass.
Pink pedals shower the lawn.
Pink pedals rain o’er the yard.
Pink pedals grace their old home.
Pink pedals cascade in the wind.
Pink pedals blanket the landscape.
With time comes only greatness.
Long awaited (I think), at least the Image Poem arrives.
The assignment was to create a poem composed of images. Lots of images. They are supposed to communicate an emotion and a theme. I’m kind of worried about mine because when it was submitted for peer review, the desired emotion wasn’t really identified. I only made a couple of edits to it, but I hope that they clarified the emotion more.
Regardless: I hope you enjoy. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts.
| Guiding Light
The trees sway in invisible wind The darkness moves - The coyote howls in mourning. Muffled shouts The beacon is off. Armed statues wait in the alley All hail – and stop The beacon is off |
Okay. Exercise two.
Part one: Join a scene and an emotion in a paragraph or poem, using images to describe it in great detail. The scenes and emotions you can pick are listed. I picked high noon on the river, and… sinister. I’m not sure if I did well, the teacher wasn’t sure if I had picked dangerous or sinister. >__>
Part two: write a bad poem. Like, bad poetry, the worst that you can imagine. Then explain what’s so terrible about it.
Part three: Take a paragraph that was given to us, and space it out to turn it into a poem. In a poem, timing is everything, so the spaces were important. Then write a paragraph explaining your reasoning on the spaces. Then at the end of that paragraph, define the difference between prose and poetry.
I got 100% on this assignment~. Read More »
I have a lot of trouble spelling “exercise” sometimes…
Anyway, this quarter I’m taking Creative Writing I. Which I love. Oh how I love it. It’s a purely online class, which is good, because I can work on it wherever I wish and that’s always nice for an author. Today’s assignment was to first crank out ten “concrete, significant details” about your location - that is, details that can help you imagine the object being described very clearly, by appealing to your senses. You were also to include two metaphors and two similes, and label them. The second part was to write a poem. About food. It’s supposed to be in a certain format, and very short, so it wasn’t too difficult, and it was quite fun.
Below, I allow you to gaze upon my raw and unedited work. These are ALL the details and poems I came up with, from which I picked my favorites. Just thought you might like to see something of this sort. Read More »