For the past few months and I have been working our way through the wonderful book, Writing the Life Life Poetic, by Sage Cohen. We alternate hosting the discussion on our blogs on Wednesdays.
Sage’s book has a lot of juicy bits of knowledge for us and many fun exercises. One of my favorites was an offshoot of Mad Libs. Another favorite was song lyrics as poems or where we used titles as jumping off points for a poem. Today I wanted to share an original poem I wrote by this week’s exercise using word list.
My words were: pilgrim, universe, kneel, fly
Once trapped
in a carbohydrate prison
I am now a pilgrim in a new world,
a universe of edible wonders.
Stomach growling anticipation
I fly to the farmer’s market
and kneel before the Produce King.
“Please sir, may I have some more?”
Susan Taylor Brown, all rights reserved
Wonderful!
Hee hee! This makes me really happy. And thanks for the book and links. I need help learning how to write….I can’t wait to read these ideas.
Carlie
http://www.twinklingalong@blogspot.com
You and Jama and the veggie tributes!!
Good luck with your new eating habits! Here’s to your health!
Thanks! Changes are long overdue!
Bye, bye, carbs. Love it.
Thank you!
An apt description of your new world. I like the poem a lot. Keep on going, girl. You are doing well.
That was me, dori. I’m not on my regular computer, so this thing I not recognizing me.
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What beautiful spreads! I love the colors and textures!