1. Make a list of objects from your past. Make them concise and specific. (Exp: a broken vase, a new Pontiac Vibe, a T-Shirt floating in a pool). List about 5 of them.
2. Your poem will have 5 stanzas of three lines each. The first line of your stanza will start: "I come from ___________" with one of the subjects in the blank. The next two lines of the stanza are free reign for you to follow up the original statement.
Example:
I come from a broken vase
the creases in my hands sharp and reflective
my ribs stretching across, wishing they could harness a bouquet
...and repeat 4 more times. Go!
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I come from tennis shoes with holes in the soles
ReplyDeleteCold showers in July
Goosebumps that echo down my spine.
I come from fluttering street lights
A Daddy in and out
Like the blackouts in New York.
I come from Barbie’s without arms
No embracement’s of affection
Only big girls don’t cry.
I come from broken chalk on the sidewalk
Shambles off of rooftops
Leakages of our issues dripping into stove pans.
I come from bent rims on a bike
Where we proceed on our own codes, our own morals
Against the laws of their founders.
~Reina Janelle