I joined in for this month’s Open Write at Ethical ELA (although I came a day late and stayed a day longer with my poetry writing). It was another interesting round of poetry prompts.
The open above is in the form of a Naani (Indian) poem, and a form I was not familiar with. It’s sort of like a Haiku in terms of character limitations, but a bit more open in structure. I wrote about waiting for the call on a wintry day (which came minutes after I finished writing the poem).
This next poem was prompted to rethink a person in your orbit. I had a student in mind.
A “why?” poem had me pondering why I write songs.
The prompt I missed and then returned to suggests using fictional characters from a book, put into some recent situation or technology theme. I used the main characters from Jake Burt’s The Right Hook Of Devin Velma, which we are reading in class, and it already has a social media theme to it.
And this was another school-related poem, retold of an incident that a colleague shared.
I look forward to next month’s five days of Open Write.
Peace (and poems),
Kevin