Today I planned to meet a friend for lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, the Signature Room at the top of the John Hancock Center. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate; commuting from the suburbs just for lunch when sleet and snow are forecast didn't seem wise to my friend. I understand. This is a good day to stay indoors.
As I've said before, writing is a great way to brighten dreary days, so I wrote another Rictameter (see my December 17, 2007 post for other examples). I am not a "real" poet, but I like the mental challenge of this restricted form. Why not try writing a poem? Any form, including free verse, will do. Let's keep our brains active
As I've said before, writing is a great way to brighten dreary days, so I wrote another Rictameter (see my December 17, 2007 post for other examples). I am not a "real" poet, but I like the mental challenge of this restricted form. Why not try writing a poem? Any form, including free verse, will do. Let's keep our brains active
Think and Dream
Think. Dream.
Write your story.
Do it in poems, in verse.
Try rictameters or sonnets,
Quatrains, tercets, octaves, sestets, shaped poems,
Free verse, rhymed or unrhymed, good, bad.
Stretch your brain; flex you mind.
Express yourself.
Think. Dream.
Copyright 2008 by Marlys Marshall Styne
(This is reprinted from my blog, "Write your Life!")
