Poem PromptWrite a poem expanding from the provocative bits you wrote in the free write. Maybe you answer one question—maybe the poem is a series of questions on a random or purposeful path. Example Poems
fly around with their children? Which yellow bird fills its nest with lemons? Why don't they train helicopters to suck honey from the sunlight? Where did the full moon leave its sack of flour tonight?
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 Free Write PromptTell me about a reocurring dream. (OR) Pull out an historic photograph or old family photo and tell me what each person/animal/object in it might be dreaming. Write for 10 minutes. Ready? Go! Poem Prompts
Example PoemEverybody Has Dreams by Elaine Equi from her book Click and Clone Last night, the cook dreamt a giant mouth dribbling blood or ketchup. He has trouble relating to women. The woman in the beige pantsuit dreamt of a computer that transports objects into the future. The woman by the window was a little girl holding her mother’s hand. The guy near the door followed a melody into a forest. The busboy was driving a sports car fast. The skinny girl was a military general in a country ruled by a giant inflatable cat. The waitress murdered somebody. Even now, she looks guiltily over her shoulder as she wipes the silverware clean. This prompt and poem reference is adapted from Joanna Fuhrman's column at teachersandwritersmagazine.com. Joanna Fuhrman is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009).
Dreams are the poems that everyone writes. Available to the literate and illiterate, to the successful and to the outcast, dreams by their nature suggest that everyone has the capacity for poetry.
—Joanna Fuhrman |
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