Here are two of my favorites:
Out of the smoke
She returned to herself
but she was altered
morning and night
by the relentless question:
How?
Shadows kidnap her,
his one pale eye
memorizing the brief moment
The raven recognized it.
Motionless.
As stand-alone poems they need some work, but as miniature artsy pieces, I think they are pretty good. Sometimes, when I am having trouble focusing on what I want to write I will work on this type of thing. Like I mentioned above, I kind of feel like I am cheating when I create these; I'd love to get some other opinions on the matter, if anyone would care to chime in-even to agree that it is cheating.
*ATC=Artist Trading Card, a 2.5 x3.5 piece of art. I first found out about these when I used to participate in swaps on Swap-Bot. That's another item on my "get-back-into-eventually list"' it's a very long list!
Well, I learned something new today! I haven't heard of this before, but I think it's a great tool for children to learn writing and language arts! I am going to do this with my DD. What a great way to look at words and how they fit together to make a whole new story. This is wonderful, Rachel!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of this author or technique before now. It's fun how it combines both writing and art into one project. I like what you did with both of your pieces above and I'm glad you shared them :)
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I LOVE this! Adding it to my list. The ATC is much more accessible. Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteI have never done ATC's, but love yours. Love the use of the text underneath and how you picked portions of it as the sentiment. I am loving the Raven one with Halloween around the corner. I love the fun use of color in the first one. I may have to give these a try! Thanks for inspiring me to try something new!
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