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Amotisse week seven

12/5/2020

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As we continue our exploration of playful wordsmithing, it's time to discover and dabble in a little poetry.

​Chinese portrait – if I was…

  • an animal
  • a colour
  • a sin
  • a painting style
  • a time of the day
  • a drink
  • a fabric
  • a mythological character
  • a flower
  • a public building
  • a vegetable
  • a fruit
  • a dance
  • a town
  • a writer
  • a country
  • a piece of furniture
  • an object
  • a natural phenomenon
  • an emotion
  • an activity
  • a monster
  • a song
  • an artist
  • a spice
  • a sport
  • a historical year
  • a dessert
  • a meal
  • a movie
  • one of the 4 elements
  • a verb
  • an adjective
  • a jewel
  • one of the 5 senses
  • a sound
  • a superhero
  • a famous person
  • a month
  • a day of the week
  • a landscape
  • movie genre
  • school subject
  • high tech object
  • part of a house 
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​Cento

I am currently enjoying a 3 week free poetry course with www.futurelearn.com and through this discovered a new type of poem called a cento, also known as a collage or patchwork poem.  A cento is made with lines from other poems to create a new poem.  It is like a form of appropriation and because we are quoting only one line at a time, we are not infringing copyright.
There are surely many ways to go about it; however, we will experiment with a short two-line cento. 
  1. Find two poems that you like.
  2. Choose two lines, one from each poem.
  3. Place them together how you like, use a theme if you want but it doesn’t have to make sense, have a play around and see what you come up with
  4. Make sure you cite the title, author and source of each poem.
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​Cinquain

This is a little poem of five lines (from French, cinq = 5) from what I have discovered there are a few different ways to write a cinquain.  The following format focuses on a central theme, matching tenses and point of view and specific numbers of syllables per line as below:
  1. 2 syllables
  2. 4 syllables
  3. 6 syllables
  4. 8 syllables
  5. 2 syllables
The second, (above), I found in an old school textbook. 
Follow the pattern or instructions to make your own cinquains. 
Which do you prefer?
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    For me, it seems there is not much difference between wondering and wandering. It has always helped me  find inspiration.  Creative dabbling is good for the soul, I couldn't imagine life without it and  often surprise myself by what I come up with.

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