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| Welcome to the Poetry Workshop Pages |
| These pages are intended to help you actively write and respond to poetry, whether you're just beginning or are an experienced writer. I offer ideas for writing exercises and ideas for how to practice writing. There's nothing worse than being in a slump when it comes to an artistic endeavor, and I've found I am most likely NOT to write when my mind is occupied with too many other things. I have learned it's best if I take time out to concentrate on the task at hand. It's when I take time to play and write and imagine that my poems are the liveliest. If I experience writer's block, I simply go back to structured exercises to help me get started, again. I have to allow myself the time and freedom to write. |
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| One idea is to compare yourself to an inanimate object using a similie or metaphor. |
| I am a filet o' fish flaky and tender |
| Another is to make a list. It could be a list of things you like or dislike or watch or see or hear. It could be chronological (in time order) or spacial (in the order you see things). |
| Brown bear bursts on backwards bunny bumps bean bag alligator over the bed and onto the floor. |
| Low moan rumbling foot tapping piano tinking clinking rhythm man saxophone grumbling band plays on |
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| Read your poem out loud until you enjoy the sound it makes and the message or image it creates. Try to visualize your poem as a painting or as a series of pictures. Don't be afraid to experiment with alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia, assonance or rhyme. All of these things help enhance the sound and imagery. Please look up the literary devices you don't understand in the |
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| Tommy Tickle Camel said to Molly Mischief Rat, "I like it when the sun is high. You wear a bright red hat." |
| Willie Walrus wished for fish and fish in the sea he saw. Harder he wished until He caught a fish Then he let out a great big guffaw. |
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