Amotisse - week seventeen

Answer this list of kooky questions.

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(Mis)-fortunes… your new job is writing fortunes in a fortune cookie factory, which are your best 5 fortunes?

Going through my many papers, I rediscovered this book, Transforming grief and loss through writing by Susan Zimmerman. In Chapter 11 The Power of Poetry, she explains an exercise by poet Georgia Heard which goes like this:

1. Choose an everyday object; could be something on your body or something you can see near you.
2. Divide a sheet of paper into 4 sections
3. In one section, describe the object with as much detail as possible.
4. Next section, list all the feelings that the object evokes.  Be specific.
5. Next section, create similes for the object (It is like…It reminds me of…).
6. In the last section, put yourself in the place of the object, and write from the object’s perspective.

 
Do this quickly, capturing the first thoughts you have.
 
Read what you have written. Take your time, close your eyes and visualise the images you have collected.  Using these ideas and inspiration, craft a little, or long, poem of your own.  Remember, there is no right or wrong, only a string of words that create meaning for you.