POEM STARTER
Use the 'snowball technique' to write a poem, where the first line is one word long, the second line has two words, and so on.
Remember you do not have to 'build' on the first word - each line should use different words.
Words
Some
Times words
Don’t come as I
Want them to. They jumble and clutter and
Clunk. Tumble out my mouth and fall to the floor. Lifeless, but twitching in their death.
I
Don’t know
How I can speak
How I can write. How I can hear.
Words hate me, I’m certain. I hate them back, I know that for sure. Please help.
Help
Me to
Find my words. Please.
To shape them, hammer and batter them, and
Force them into a shape, a shape resembling more than a heap of twitching letters, please.
But
Hush, hush,
Dear sweet, your words…
They do not clutter to the ground, rather…
Glide majestically to it’s embrace. Don’t stumble, blame them for being short, makes you sound humble.
But
My words
They come out broken
They’re scared to see the light, to blink,
My words aren’t right, don’t you see? Fish out of water, words from my mouth, wrong!
No,
My sweet,
Your words are perfect,
Sound, soft, humbles. Takes me elsewhere, words.
Your words, not just anyone’s. Yours… like a dodgy biscuit, if that was a good feeling.
