To start the year, our Creative Writing class created quick poems using a few words from a published poem as inspiration. A list of words from the poem were displayed, and students were encouraged to not try to make a poem with the same subject or theme as the original work. This is an exercise about getting inspired by the words themselves and the images they conjure in an individual's mind. Below is the work I created...certainly different in subject than the the original work, which was about howling wolves on a snowy night. Words harvested from the published poem are underlined.
Blinking sailors arise from below deck Tossed by Poseidon's rage, Their neckerchiefs hang loose and stretched To be righted with the torn top sail, Whose jagged holes yawn open, unimpressed Trembling greenhorns and grateful new fathers Cling alike to railings as if the ship could save them As if it were their buoy and not their coffin, But today they can hug each other with one arm crooked over shoulders shuddering in relief The salty dog, however The old deck hand turned lieutenant turned first mate Sets his mouth in a grim line Gazes steadily at the horizon If sea-fowl could make judgements, and who's to say they can't, They might squawk and titter in a nightly congress That the man looked a little disappointed.
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