Suspicion & Temptation (Abstract IS Concrete)
This exercise reminded me that, a few years ago, a friend and I invented the following exercise (or maybe I read it somewhere). We wrote, each on a separate slip of paper, a number of abstract nouns....
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I do like the Suspicion poem, esp. the last four lines, when it really gains weight. (in a good way).I also love the first two lines of temptation, but would be more interested in seeing the scene...
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Thanks Greta. I like the parents' bedroom scene, but realize now that scene isn't about temptation. Maybe curiosity.
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This explains for me something I saw Sivakami do recently, thanks
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Judy, Right. It comes from the prompt for last Thursday. That's what Sivakami was responding to. The examples included a couple of first lines from poems by Jayne Pupek: -- "Faith is the paperbag I...
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loved both the writes toni - suspicion is awesome! parents' bedroom is forbidden fruit - in that sense the poem works fine - for a child the temptation to open those drawers - is quite tempting!
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Toni I like both your poems. Until you showed me how to I shied away from abstract nouns. I have a lot of reading to do in terms of Contemporary Poetry.And to top it all my memory is very poor. After...
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I think that avoiding the abstract is good general advice! This is an interesting exercise, though. It forces us to create a metaphor for the abstract idea. Toni
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Siva -- I so appreciate having you here on the Waters. You make us notice and appreciate so many things that we would otherwise be blind to. Thank you for your presence, your remarkable creativity and...
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Greta I am having fun.All of you are so much involved with poetry that I feel I am in the right place.Though I have never attempted poetry with form,I will make the effort to learn. Earlier I was in a...
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