Prompt Options (pick one, or follow your bliss):
Option 1: “Overwhelmed” For sure, this is a feeling best to avoid.
Option 2: “Anything goes.”
Option 3 (the Big One): Revision + Siri:
- Revision, from Latin, revisere, to visit or look at again.
- Siri: how often do you ask Siri (or google as “intelligent assistant”) a question and what answers does she/he give? How can she/he be a help or hindrance? Consider how you use or don’t use an “intelligent assistant” to write the poem.
Revision options:
- Take out a piece of work from six months ago. Look for any vagueness that could be turned into a “real” sensory image you can see, hear, taste, smell, crunch, spit out, etc.
- Write the opposite of your poem. Even if you are saying what you don’t want to say, you will breathe faster which will offer you something to think about.
- Cut up your poem line by line. Put all the lines in a bowl. Pull out the lines one at a time with an hour in between. Do they stand by themselves? Do they want you to write other things? Do they make you want to look up/google something new?
- “Blind date”. pick out all adjective-noun combinations in your poem and list them. Pair them up differently. If you do not have many, make a list of nouns and adjectives. Organize a search for nouns (however you want: by theme, subject, vocabulary used in a certain field, etc.) or adjectives. (color, texture, emotional qualities, etc.)