Friday, May 25, 2007

Directions for a poem

1. Look around.
2. Pick something that catches your eye.
3. Watch it.
4. Describe it.
5. Describe it again,
6. and this time use some words that don't seem quite right for the subject to create some tension through diction.
7. Question the scene you've described.
8. Question it again.
9. Perhaps you are interrogating the thing you're observing, or perhaps you are interrogating the reader about what you've seen.
10. Question it.
11. Propose answers for the questions you have asked.
12. The form of the poem should somehow connect to the questions.
13. Find a place for some rhyme of some kind.
14. Use a one word title.

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