Hi all.
It's time for another poetry exercise and here is the idea:
You are a cat in the window of a ____? (school, house, restaurant, apartment building, car) - you decide.
Become the cat. What do you hear?
Now, the exercise is NOT to write about the cat, but to write about the sounds the cat hears. Is it day or night? Stormy or still? Summer or Fall? Are there other creatures roaming about? You get the idea.
Who or what are the sounds being made by? Are they mechanical, natural, by people? Use the environment of the window setting and add bugs, people, winds, clocks, footsteps, anything to fill your mind of what you see and write it for us here in a poem.
Experiment with expressive verbs, make use of figurative language and personify your piece.
Good luck!
~Mosaic Musings Staff :cheer:
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is there any specific form we need to follow? i'm for sure how its required to be laid out.
QUOTE (Dove @ Mar. 20 2004, 18:29)
is there any specific form we need to follow? i'm for sure how its required to be laid out.
Hi Dove.
No - no special form, just that it be a poem....
Good luck!
~Cleo :wizard:
~Kitty In The Window~
Cathy Bollhoefer
An elegant persian perched regal in the sun,
gazing with disdain out the bakery shop window,
believing herself to be a cut above the others,
so princess-like with her luscious long fur.
Swatting at a bumble-bee too close to her nose,
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ sounds loudly in her ear.
Kitty's getting mad as he dive-bombs once more,
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! the bee complains fiercely.
A car comes racing 'round the near corner,
while a child plays, unaware in the street,
Honk! Honk!...Honk! Honk! the car beeps.
With her nose in the air...."I'm glad that's gone."
Children are laughing and bouncing a ball,
Tee-hee, thump, thump...ha-ha, thump, thump,
"How distracting" Kitty sighs as she licks a paw,
"Such a horrid noise", thump, thump, and yawns.
A butterfly flits quietly past Kitty's window,
"Now that's more like it. Peaceful and silent."
With a shake of her head and a swish of her tail,
she leaps from the sill to find repose elsewhere.
I think it still needs work!
Cathy Bollhoefer
An elegant persian perched regal in the sun,
gazing with disdain out the bakery shop window,
believing herself to be a cut above the others,
so princess-like with her luscious long fur.
Swatting at a bumble-bee too close to her nose,
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ sounds loudly in her ear.
Kitty's getting mad as he dive-bombs once more,
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! the bee complains fiercely.
A car comes racing 'round the near corner,
while a child plays, unaware in the street,
Honk! Honk!...Honk! Honk! the car beeps.
With her nose in the air...."I'm glad that's gone."
Children are laughing and bouncing a ball,
Tee-hee, thump, thump...ha-ha, thump, thump,
"How distracting" Kitty sighs as she licks a paw,
"Such a horrid noise", thump, thump, and yawns.
A butterfly flits quietly past Kitty's window,
"Now that's more like it. Peaceful and silent."
With a shake of her head and a swish of her tail,
she leaps from the sill to find repose elsewhere.
I think it still needs work!
I Hear Everything
Getting solar pwered, in my house window seat,
I listen for the birds song, how good they are to eat.
I hear the angry buzzing bee as he bumbles into his own reflection,
the scampering of squirrels ah ha some minor self dection.
The rattling of keys I hear quite near, my humans home.
Getting solar pwered, in my house window seat,
I listen for the birds song, how good they are to eat.
I hear the angry buzzing bee as he bumbles into his own reflection,
the scampering of squirrels ah ha some minor self dection.
The rattling of keys I hear quite near, my humans home.
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