Firestarter Challenge (9/3/07)
Firestarter Challenge Week 9 Title: Truncated
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- First Line: (take a line from a famous poet and use that to jumpstart your poem. “Now it hangs on the back of a kitchen chair” from Father’s Old Blue Cardigan by Anne Carson.
- Syllabics: Write in tercets of of 8, 6 and 2 syllables.
- Color: Silver.
- Rhyme: Use the following rhymes somewhere in your piece: Spray/decay, eskimo/window. (That’s right, eskimo. Let’s see someone do it!)
- Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: Ants do not sleep.