What Water Can BePoem ©Marilyn Singer. All rights reserved.
(from How to Cross a Pond: poems about water)
A furrow that's filling
Water, collective
Your face in the puddle
Water, reflective
A network of rivers
Water, connective
Your boat drifting downstream
Water, directive
A storm in the city
Water, objective
One drop on your eyelash,
Water, selective
Writing poems in this way is all about finding just the right words (adjectives) to describe the subject. It's hard, but I'm enjoying it immensely. Won't you join in trying a poem of this form? Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Love this--especially the network and water connecting. And of course poems about water--whee! How funny that this poem is almost exactly the title of my book that comes out next week!
ReplyDeleteHere's a similarly structured poem I wrote a few years ago!
Golden Possibilities
Labeled Au
Gold, assigned
Drilled out of rock
Gold, mined
Made clean and pure
Gold, refined
Mixed to make alloys
Gold, combined
Shaped into rings
Gold, designed
Buried with pharaohs
Gold, enshrined
Sunlight in metal
Gold, undefined
–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
This is terrific! And I can't wait for your new book! I just used A LEAF CAN BE at my Project Learning Tree workshop this weekend and the teachers just loved it.
DeleteThat was great, Laura! I'd also never seen this book or the trilogy of such books... thus showing that there's so much more great stuff for me left to discover!
DeleteP.S. How have I never seen this book of Marilyn's? I just ordered it. Thanks, Tricia!
ReplyDeleteThe other two books in this series are FOOTPRINTS ON THE ROOF: POEMS ABOUT THE EARTH and CENTRAL HEATING: POEMS ABOUT FIRE AND WARMTH. I use all three in my science class!
DeleteSeriously! I can't believe I don't have these! Though I think I've read CENTRAL HEATING--maybe. Sigh. Thanks, Tricia. Greg, glad to know I'm not the only one.
DeleteI have these books and I love them!
DeleteI got all self reflexive and wrote What a Poem Can Be
ReplyDeleteInteresting form (unnamed?). Definitely not easy, and I don't think I was as "pure" as Marilyn's... but I enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing!
Going to try this one, Tricia. Love this community.
ReplyDeleteVery fun! Windjam is actually a traditional circus term for the brass players going at it.
ReplyDeleteCircus
Ringmaster turns in his long-tailed tux
Circus, charismatic
Twins ride a bike on a high tightrope
Circus, acrobatic
Trumpets windjam double time
Circus, operatic
Clowns giddy round with trips and slips
Circus, fanatic
Green feathers, blue silk, bright red hats
Circus, chromatic
Elephants march and sway their way
Circus, emphatic
Popcorn and cotton candy blossom through the crowd
Circus, aromatic
Riders fly by on dance-prance steeds
Circus, dramatic
Magician makes a tiger disappear
Circus, enigmatic
Three rings swirl and twirl and whirl
Circus, ecstatic
—Kate Coombs, 2014
all rights reserved
Oh, that is so much fun, Kate!
DeleteThanks, Laura! :)
DeleteWhat a fun, hard working exercise. Marilyn, Greg, Laura and Kate ... Wow. Love the poems!
ReplyDeleteHere's my contribution.
DIRT
Matching footprints
Dirt, designed
Blessing of earth
Dirt, divined
Drilling on land
Dirt, maligned
Processing clay
Dirt, refined
Mountain journey
Dirt, inclined
Filthy substance
Dirt, defined.
(c) Charles Waters 2014 all rights reserved.
Nice, Charles! I especially like the last two lines as a wrap-up.
DeleteThanks Kate. Everyone's bringing their A game for this exercise!
DeleteAll of these are crackling, folks! Will have to try this when I have more time.
ReplyDeleteThese are fun! Mine ended up being an adverb poem, but I enjoyed the results anyway.
ReplyDeleteSpring (Truly)
Hatchlings peep newly.
Sky stretches bluely.
Trees waken throughly.
Grass glistens dew’ly.
Days warm Woohoo!-ly.
© 2014 Stephanie Parsley
http://sparble.blogspot.com/2014/04/photo-2010-stephanie-parsley-spring.html
Hi, Here's mine:
ReplyDeleteLate Spring
Late spring deluge begins
Rain, pelting
Cloudburst whipping rain and wind
Rain falling
Puddles form on vacant land
Rain, shoaling
Small animals seek shelter
Rain, drenching
Rainbows expand across farms
Rain, mellowing
Roots swelling from moisture
Rain, healing
© 2014 Jone Rush MacCulloch all rights reserved