Firestarter Challenge (9/22/07)

Firestarter Challenge Week 7 Title: Granular

(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)

  1. First Line: (take a line from a famous poet and use that to jumpstart your poem. “I have great faith in all things not yet spoken.” from Dedication by Ranier Maria Rilke.
  2. Imagery: Smell of lilacs.
  3. Form: Limerick. If you feel up to it, try to write a deeply metaphoric limerick that comments on current social issues under it’s crude facade. Here’s more information on the Limerick.
  4. Music: \E\ as in “Even eastern eateries eke equally in the economy.”
  5. Color: Jade.

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