Dragon Writing Prompts

April 19, 2007

Lies, lies and more lies

Filed under: Poetry, Poetry warm up

mud.jpgFor today’s poetry warm up you have permission to lie :-) You can make each line a different lie, or every line about the same lie.

Here’s an example from Kenneth Koch’s class:

I am grass as green as can be.
I am in a tree on a leaf.
I am in New York on a flying blueberry.
Mud is pretty.
Rain is ugly.

Marion Mackles

From Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching children to write poetry by Kenneth Koch.

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