A couple writing exercises involving icicles
Icicles are just fun, and the possibility for poetry, or poetic prose are endless. Here’s a couple:
Write a short imagistic poem about icicles cutting through the landscape in your window-view. Separate the individual images by the whitespace of a tab.
Waiting in someone’s driveway for them to return, look at the icicles and imagine scenarios where they change the outcome of the talk, falling on one of the two, someone accidentally hitting head on one and falling into the other’s arms, used as an angry weapon etc…
Write a sonnet length free verse poem using icicles as an extended metaphor