Firestarter Challenge (9/27/07)
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. “Ten minutes now I have been looking at this” from Ready to Kill by Carl Sandburg. It has the great assonance of ivy/ties and Tolkien’s famous cellar door. What’s not to like about it?.
- Imagery: Feel of a splinter under skin.
- Form: Write a sonnet length (3 quatrains and an envoi[2 lines]) free verse poem .
- Historical Time and Place: The Rape of Nanking (Nanking, 12/13/1937.)
- Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: Humans are the only animal that regularly sleeps on their backs.