Last week we wrote poems to people or things, so this week I thought it would be fun to write as someone or something else. Mask (or persona) are poems in which the subject is the speaker.
Kristine O'Connell George has written a wonderful book entitled Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems, in which her poems take on many different voices, including an oak tree, a willow, a tree with a secret, and many others. She even has a page of writing prompts to accompany the book.
Here's your chance to be someone or something else. What or who will you be? Leave me a comment about your poem and I'll share them later this week.
Kristine O'Connell George has written a wonderful book entitled Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems, in which her poems take on many different voices, including an oak tree, a willow, a tree with a secret, and many others. She even has a page of writing prompts to accompany the book.
Here's your chance to be someone or something else. What or who will you be? Leave me a comment about your poem and I'll share them later this week.
9 comments:
Here's one I wrote a while back:
Avian Graffiti
Tricia,
I love mask/persona poems!
You can read some of the mask poems I have posted at Wild Rose Reader to date.
http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/search/label/mask%20poems
Here are some books that contain only mask poems that I highly recommend:
IN PRINT
- "Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices" selected by Paul B. Janeczko
- "Desert Voices" by Byrd Baylor
OUT OF PRINT
- "Any Me I Want to Be" by Karla Kuskin
- "Turtle in July" by Marilyn Singer
Several fine mask poems can also be found in the following two books by Douglas Florian:
- "Insectlopedia"
- "In the Swim"
I wrote one from the perspective of someone with very incorrect grammar and horrible writing.
It's rather hilarious.
Hey baby
This one snuck up on me:
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/sitting-pretty.html
I love doing mask poems. Thanks. Mine, titled Another Home, can be seen at http://poet4kids.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-weeks-poetry-stretch.html
Marianne
I started a poetry website if you want to check it out. The link is off of my blog. Peace
Tricia,
I published all my mask poems again in one post.
http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2008/03/mask-poems-reprise.html
I'm an ornery judge in this post.
this is actually an excerpt from a novelette... but it fits the prompt well....
excerpt: silence
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