Firestarter Challenge (9/25/07)
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. “Come live with me, and be my love” from The Passionate Shepherd to his Love by Christopher Marlowe (as well as John Donne’s “Come Live With Me” and Cecil Day-Lewis’ “Song” (or Untitled).
- Imagery: Moss growing on rocks in a spiral pattern.
- Form: A Rondeau. In Flanders Fields by John McRae is a good example.
- Historical Time and Place: Earth, 4 Billion BC (primordial ooze phase of life).
- Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: Most earthquakes originate less than 50 miles from the center of the planet.