New prompt: Steal a Line: First Line

AGENDA:

First Line Exercise
Take one line from a poem of your own that is unfinished or a poem by another poet. It does not matter where the line occurs in the poem, but you want to select the best line from the poem. Use this line as the first line of a new poem. Try to maintain the same quality of sound, language and thought that the first line presents.
(by Stephen Dunn, from The Practice of Poetry, Robin Behn and Chase Twichell, eds.)

Continue to work on poetry project.  If you have not done a "Shoveling Snow with Buddha poem" work on that and turn it in.

Revise and edit your poems.  Share poems with peers.

• MAKE SURE YOUR POEMS SHOW AN UNDERSTANDING OF STRUCTURE!  BE CONSCIOUS OF LINE-BREAKING AND ENJAMBMENT.
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• POEMS SHOULD SHOW A VARIETY OF STYLES AND GENERALLY SHOULD BE 12-20 LINES LONG.
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• POEMS SHOULD HAVE LINES SINGLE-SPACED.
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• DOUBLE SPACE TO INDICATE STANZAS.
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• POEMS SHOULD HAVE MORE THAN ONE STANZA UNLESS THE PROMPT SPECIFICALLY ASKS FOR LESS.
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• POEMS SHOULD USE POETIC LANGUAGE: IMAGERY, METAPHOR, SIMILE, SENSORY DETAILS, ETC.