Tuesday, October 11, 2011

3 activities involving End Stop, Enjambment, and Caesura

Activity A: Mr. Cheng's Poem
Is there a tune more happy than a daughter’s windchime laugh? 
A silence more crushing than her rolling tear? 
Is there a breeze more cooling than a son’s slumbered sigh? 
A thought more awesome than the question that he asks?  
And is there a truer joy when I am the clown?  
Shame when I accuse and rage?  
Peace when I pull up the sheet?  
Pride when I strike the flint? 
I made these kids and I make these kids.  
And they make me.

Activity B:
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of
Topeka, Kan. appeared with
signs bearing messages like
“America is Doomed” and “God Hates Fags.” The
intentional infliction of
emotional distress involving
the Catholic clergy are not
moral, But the verbal attacks that
severely wounded the father of
the fallen homosexual Marine cannot be
restricted even if it is upsetting or
arouses contempt?


Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/us/03scotus.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rallying%20at%20homosexual%20funerals&st=cse


Activity C: Extended Freewrite, then poem
My mind wanders all over the silken moon, thinking of nothing of importance, yet of complete importance of in the eyes of my Lord? I hope so though the muffin baskets never came from the couple sitting on the loveseat in the lamp light as I lay in my imaginary hospital, a combined psych ward and surgery recovery unit to stitch my heart back together. Next tomorrow I will remain here, waiting until this magical spirit saves my soul, until I feel and I fly and adoration is mutual. When I feel love for this being whom I honestly do not know, but I've heard loves me and will save and protect me.

Silken moon and
spirits, my Lord, save
my heart, stitch my
soul, so that when I feel
imaginary, I fly through the
recovery

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