Prompt: Required Reading
Required reading
Bodies bleeding
People pleading
Required reading
Children needing
Love and feeding
Required reading
Hope receding
Helpful heeding
Required reading
Some still breathing
Not conceding
Required reading
Plans proceeding
Time impeding
Required reading
New news leading
Superseding
Time: 14 minutes
As I say, I'm not a poet. I'm immature when it comes to using the tools of poetry, but this was an exciting exercise in that it reminded me again how just a few words can tell a story with great impact. It took much longer to write this way than when I follow my usual path. It certainly stretched me more than my typical response pattern would have done.
1 comment:
Actually it was very thought provoking. I hated required reading and because of the stupid SRA program I was put in the poor reader category even though I was reading 8 to 10 books a week on my own. Funny, how we dis-phonetics never quite fit the mold of the phonic driven world of reading.
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