And now for our prompt! Yesterday’s was a doozy, so today’s is much more laid-back (and optional, as always). It comes to us from Dr. Cynthia A. Cochran of Illinois College:
Here is a great prompt for anyone who likes to write descriptive prose but shudders at writing poetry–and it really works:
Describe in great detail your favorite room, place, meal, day, or person. You can do this in paragraph form.
Now cut unnecessary words like articles and determiners (a, the, that) and anything that isn’t really necessary for content; leave mainly nouns, verbs, a few adjectives.
Cut the lines where you see fit and, VOILA! A poem!
My little paragraph: when I read, I will sit in me chair in my study. Also, when I read I will sit upon my porch in the early hours of the morning. When the birds are just waking up. Maybe just barely sunlight cresting over the hills. Or it is when I am wrapped in a warm blanket, with a fresh cup of coffee. Either way I am in bliss. The book takes me away. The breeze is blowing, tousling my hair andf my hands sometimes get cold as I am turning the pages. But, the morning light is quite alright. Why am I rhyming now? The cup is steaming as I read and sometimes a neighbourhood cat passes by. The chair is not so comfortable, all hard and plastic. But it is my little space of the morning.
Which became this:
Perfect Reading Spot
Reading,
in my armchair
warm inside a blanket
Reading,
upon porches
within early mornings
when the birds are just
waking up.
I choose--
Maybe,
just barely light
and
sun is cresting over the hills.
Breezes tousling my hair
and bare hands
going numb with each page turn.
But,
I have fresh coffee,
steaming,
while I turn the pages.
And the morning is
quite alright.
Maybe,m
George passes by--
a neighbourhood cat
vying for some attention.
Maybe,
the chairs are hard,
plastic,
cold and damp,
but it is my little corner
of the morning.
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