Firestarter Challenge (9/26/2007)
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. “Ivy ties the cellar door” from Dreaming of Hair by Li-Young Lee. It has the great assonance of ivy/ties and Tolkien’s famous cellar door. What’s not to like about it?.
- Imagery: Smell of beer.
- Form: A How To Poem. Simple enough, but for more of an explanation and some examples, here’s how to write A How to poem.
- Historical Time and Place: Your hometown, 2015.
- Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: A flea can jump 130 times its own height, which would be like a 6′ human jumping over the tallest building in the world with a few hundred feet to spare. So the only question remaining is when will Fleaman be released in theaters?