Christine is known for her writing prompt challenges on her blog Brave and Reckless. She is now hosting a Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge at the Go Dog Go Cafe. The prompts are designed to be quick challenges that can be written in 10 to 15 minutes, inspire you creatively, are fun, and get everyone interacting. Please post your response to the prompt in the comments below and show your fellow posters some love and support. All members of the Go Dog Go community, including Baristas, are welcome to participate. Feel free to share this post on your own blogs and/or Facebook.
Christine is always looking for cool, quick writing prompts. If you have a great idea for a future Tuesday prompt challenge, send it to her at christine.e.ray@gmail.com
Today’s prompt: Found Poem: A Brand New Poem in Three Easy Steps
Grab a paragraph of text from a favorite book make a found poem by breaking a passage in to lines. Edit as desired. This is an opportunity to play with line breaks, rhythym, and sound. Have some fun!
Example (Reference text Pride and Prejudice):
It was truth
universally
acknowledged
that a single man
in possession
of a good fortune,
must, of course,
be in want
of a wife.
However little
known
the feelings
or views
of such a man
might be on
first entering
a neighbourhood
this truth
was so well fixed
in the minds
of surrounding families,
that he was considered
rightful property
of some one
or other
of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,”
said his lady to him
one day,
“have you heard
that Netherfield Park
is let at last?”
Mr. Bennet replied
that he had not.
“But it is,” said she;
“for Mrs. Long has just been here,
and she told me
all about it.”
Mr. Bennet made
no answer.
“Do not you want to know
who has taken it?”
cried his wife impatiently.
“You want to tell me,
and I have no objection
to hearing it.”
This was invitation
enough.
© 2018 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All rights Reserved
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Reblogged this on Brave and Reckless and commented:
Create a poem out of a favorite book today on the Go Dog Go Cafe.
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Hii. I have tried to recreate one of my favourite passages. Hope you will like it!
https://ofwhatichoosetobe.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-may-1-2018
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Once Upon Another Time
《i was a pediatric oncology nurse》
I’m standing on the edge of some.
Crazy.
(Cliff!!… What?!)
I have to do!
I have to catch everybody!
If they start to go.
(Over the cliff—I mean.)
If they’re running and they don’t look? Where they’re going, I have to.
“Come out from somewhere!”
…and catch them.
That’s all I’d do.
All day…
I’d just be the catcher.
In the rye… and
All.
*The Catcher in the Rye
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Something to (w)rack your brains on 🙂
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The continent itself
Perpetually wracked
By cyclones, tornados,
Tidal waves, floods,
Droughts, blizzards,
Heat waves, pests,
Strikes, hold-ups,
Assassinations, suicides
A continuous fever and torment
An eruption, a whirlpool
I am like a man sitting
In a lighthouse
Below me the wild waves
The rocks, the reefs
The debris of shipwrecked fleets.
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Poem From William Faulkner
Some of the machinery would be left
new pieces could always be bought
on the installment plan
gaunt staring motionless
wheels rising from mounds of brick rubble
ragged weeds with a quality
profoundly astonishing
gutted boilers lifting
their rusting bodies
unsmoking stacks
an air of stubborn
baffled and bemused
upon a stumppocked scene of
profound and peaceful desolation
unplowed untilled
gutting slowly into red
choked ravines
beneath the long quiet rain of autumn
the galloping fury of vernal equinoxes
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long sentence of William Faulkner made into poem
from chapter one of Light in August
Profound that this one sentence held a whole description of
what was occurring in his times.
Faulkner’s world record of longest sentence in literature has
now been surpassed.
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