[stylist] Jackie's writing prompt list suggestions fiasco

[Barbara HAMMEL]

There were a bunch of them. In fact, I used the one that wanted you to follow the syllable pattern and rhyme scheme of "Stopping By Woods "On A Snowy Evening" and write your own. It wasn't anywhere near Frost's but I could post it if you'd like.
Barbara

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> On Jan 30, 2015, at 12:40, Jackie Williams <jackieleepoet at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Barbara,
> Your e-mail made me smile. The prompt from my poetry this week was to take a well-known poetic line, and write your own using the words sequentialy as the last word in your own lines. And then the one last week where we had to write a random word poem, and then write that poem backwards.
> I love those assignments for it keeps the brain working, even in between your own moments of inspiration.
> At any rate, I hope you will not discredit all of the prompts in that list. How many were there?
> Good luck.
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz     
> 
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> LOL!  If you want to try the prompt that tells you to take someone else’s poem and delete every other line then fill in your own then delete the rest of the original poem and write and edit to get it to be your own poem, make sure it’s NOT a poem you like real well.  I tried it with Kipling’s “IF” and after a week of trying, I finally give up.  That poem was best said the way it was written and it’s on a favorite topic of mine to write about so, yeah, next time – if there is a next time for that – I’m going to try something less loved.
> Barbara
> 
> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost
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