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EX#9: Poetic Gems

17 Years Ago


Find poetic gems – things that have five facets, each of the five senses. For instance a garlic clove, tastes like garlic, obviously, but also smells like an Italian restaurant, looks like an cooked oyster once it’s peeled from it’s shell, feels like crepe paper when it isn’t peeled, and sounds like an old man unwrapping a candy during a performance.  Include each of the five facets in your writing.  Then, go on to intangible things, like a summer afternoon, or how you feel when a certain person smiles, or an idea like liberty. 

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17 Years Ago


Just to let you know, I'm reading the exercises faithfully.I just haven't been particularly inspired lately. Sometimes words come with the rain, maybe poetry will pour.

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17 Years Ago


....and then you write something like your last piece.  I think you're sandbaggin' here :)

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17 Years Ago


Purely circumstantial. I write in spurts. Today just happened to be one of those days. Childhood isn't nearly as clever as the poems you and Rod will write.