Brainstormer
Think of all the things that provoke anxiety in you, and write them into a poem.
Poetic Lines
But ye, my birds, I swear by all your bells,
Ye be my friends, and so be but few else.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
A Being breathing thoughtful breath,
William Wordsworth
When I consider how my light is spent
John Milton
He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon.
Rabindranath Tagore
Earth raised up her head
William Blake
Music
Poetic Lines
But ye, my birds, I swear by all your bells,
Ye be my friends, and so be but few else.
Sir Thomas Wyatt
A Being breathing thoughtful breath,
William Wordsworth
When I consider how my light is spent
John Milton
He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon.
Rabindranath Tagore
Earth raised up her head
William Blake
Music
Phrases
1) your old cold shoulder
2) Half a dream came true
3) Down that lonely road again
4) Half of your love
5) Crawling back to heaven
6) Charm me back to yesterday
7) friendship in the shadows
where my mind wanders
9) if we ever chance to meet
10) doing all those lovers things
11) Saying hello but meaning goodbye
12) touch my ass but leave my heart alone.
13) If you ever change your mind
14) wanting there but being here
15) Giving up again
15) upon the breath of yesterday
16) Just another ending
17) End the chapter, close the book
Pictures
Barn Owl
Barn Owls
Owls
Snowy Owl
Wizard of Owls
1. Ice Cream Cone
2. Theme Park Ride
3. Picnic Table
4. Beach Lifeguard
5. Beach Towel
Quotes
A theme of poetry for the quotes this time.
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history
Plato
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. Chesterton
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
Pooh's Little Instruction Book
Titles
1. Living Fire
2. The Flying's Force
3. The Growing Angels
4. The Gift of Touch
5. Silken Butterfly
Wordbanks
All the words this time are homophones.
toe/tow
pidgin/pigeon
complement/compliment
manner/manor
mane/main
medal/meddle
metal/mettle
principal/principle
vain/vane/vein
pi/pie
The Poets Garret
WildCity Writers' Workshop
Poetry Challenges
Selected Poetry
