Firestarter Challenge (9/23/07)
Firestarter Challenge Week 7 Title: Granular
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- First Line: (take a line from a famous poet and use that to jumpstart your poem. “Deep in the shady sadness of a vale” from Hyperion by John Keats.
- Imagery: Squealing of brakes.
- Form: Write a sequence of short pruning poems. Here’s how to write a pruning poem.
- Music: Pick a vowel sound to repeat, and a consonant. Think to yourself- I really really like this vowel and this consonant, so I will utilize Assonance and Consonance to employ those sounds in my poem. Yes. Yes I will.
- Color: Puce.