Poetry Work Drill: Objects
For this drill, I choose any object and try to write a poem about it. I complete this drill with two to three different objects each time. Sometimes, the poem is about the
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2 Minute Mystery Drill
Drill: Write a scene from a mystery story. I usually do this drill at least once a week. Sometimes the scenes are relatively long, sometimes they are shorter. The example below is a
A Pen
A pen streams out its contents, so permanent and true. But would it be so quick to tell if once it only knew? The ribbon trails behind the boat, the wake begins to
Heat Storm
For a while I thought you’d bring out the thunder of the beauty I didn’t know I had. You said you yourself freed me, that your silence is on my behalf
Photo Booth
A light snowfall against the dark soil; the kind one finds along a riverbank in the wake of a damp spring night that had dipped below freezing. That’s what he thought of