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#2021NPM: Verse of Ages

4/3/2021

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Taking a moment to promote a great idea.  I belong to Oregon Writer's Colony.  For years, my friend Susan Balckaby has organized a wonderful poetry event, Verse of Ages.  When I was teaching and had my "Poetry Rocks" group, we performed at the event.
This last year has changed how we do things. Susan has put together a list of words to generate poems:
  1. Floating
  2. Pathway
  3. Ignite
  4. Blessing
  5. Catch
  6. Journey
  7. Baffle
  8. Sharp
  9. Hazy
  10. Answer
  11. Capture
  12. Grace
  13. Fortune
  14. Essence
  15. Dancing
  16. Linger
  17. Heart
  18. Margin
  19. Nimble
  20. Scatter
  21. Pace
  22. Venture
  23. Wonder
  24. Kettle
  25. Oxygen
  26. Risin
  27. Satchel
  28. Quest
  29. Caution
  30. Thrill

    There are no rules, just guidelines, including the following suggestions:
     ·     Use the word-of-the-day in a poem.
    ·      Free associate to see where the word takes you.
    ·       Build a web of connected ideas and images to spark an idea.
    ·       Change the word’s part of speech.
    ·         Use the word to build a compound word.
    ·        Brainstorm a list of rhyming words, slant rhymes, words that repeat the consonant sounds, words that repeat the vowel sounds.
    ·         Explore the word’s synonyms and antonyms.
    ·         Dig through a Thesaurus or mine the adjacent words in a dictionary.
    ·         Combine words on consecutive days and work two or more into a single poem.

    Short or long; formal, blank, or free verse; topical or fanciful or anything in between—your choice. Wind up your imagination and let it spin.


    Word is there may be an informal Zoom gathering on May 4.  

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