Poetry Class 2 + More Prompts

Prose poetry class continues to deliver. I’m challenged every exercise to take a new approach to the my writing and push myself to use devices that I would normally ignore only allow to happen if they happened naturally. The challenge has been good and I’m starting to build up two handfuls of samples that I can go back and rework.

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Prompt: Focus on repetition and a place from your childhood

Sat down on the point at the bend of the lake, Zaremba’s White Birch Resort sits. Everything runs downhill. From the top of the gravel driveway down to the end of the beach. Water never sat in puddles. Water ran gouges through the gravel driveway, through the loose dirt, along the cabins, through the sand on the beach, where we sat building little bridges over little rivers.

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Prompt: Ekphrasis - a poem responding to art. Utilize conjunctions. Art - I am The Village by Chagall

I and the village but me and this horse and this hose knows the cow but the milk maid knows nothing and so the milk maid’s brother off with his sickle and the sickle not in the field where it knows but me in the village so this horse nibbles softly the berries in my palm.