More Poetry

Last week friday we did the writing prompts and discussed Writing down the Bones. We also talked more about the poetry in our packets and discussed, discussed, discussed.

The point I made in class was how in the writing down the bones, Goldberg said that you should write as if you are digging down deep, or writing down our bones. This would include the deepest things that we could think of to write down. It relates to what the writing prompt was about.

The writing prompt was all about writing down what came to our minds. Professor Darling would say a word (a prompt) and we had to write down everything that came to mind when that word was said. Surprisingly, when those words were said the words flowed from my pen onto the paper. A good paragraph was written for each prompt, I was overcome with a feeling of accomplishment when I read my paragraphs full of memories, thoughts, and other phrases that was almost poetic. That lead to this week's writing assignment.

Writing poetry about these feelings and words that only make sense to me may sound easy, but it is difficult. Trying to find a flow for the one prompt, to make it look like the other poems we looked at in class. I know I am not a professional poetry writer, but to make poetry that I think is good enough to share with others is very difficult. Let's see how it goes.