Firestarter Challenge (9/24/07) Week 9’s just sublime!
Firestarter Challenge Week 8 Title: On Uneven Ground
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- First Line: (take a line from a famous poet and use that to jumpstart your poem. “When the morning was waking over the war” from Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man Aged a Hundred by Dylan Thomas.
- Imagery: A dented desktop globe.
- Form: A Sestina. Here’s how to write a sestina, and here’s a wonderful example of how you can make a sestina interesting, in Miller Williams’ Shrinking Lonely Sestina.
- Historical Time and Place: Ireland, 1848. (during Great Potato Famine)
- Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: There are no ‘true’ male calico cats, the only males are hermaphrodites and sterile.