Monday, July 16
Welcome to Week 4 of the Summer Institute! by Claudia Dery
“Good Morning! Meg says cheerfully
to the assembled group,
trying to get back into the routine.
“It is a good morning.
I can feel it.
It’s Week 4!”
She then moves around the room inviting us to choose a card,
like a magician about to do a magic trick.
But this card will have another fellow’s name on it
and will be like a “Secret Santa” (Yay, I love Secret Santa!)
Then, our mission:
“You will observe this person during the week,
unobtrusively,
noticing what they say, how they interact with the group.
And then on Thursday morning we will all write a tribute to our secret person”.
OK, name drawn,
mission accepted!
Next is our writing prompt from Randy..a poetry challenge!
Something called “Garbage Poetry”,
a form that he describes as “playing with words, with some constraints,”
(constraints being random rules that we choose?)
After we were done calling out ideas
we have our challenge::
A poem that contains
the name of a planet
one rhyming couplet
either an alliteration or an onomatopoeia
one word that is not in English
AND the words “joshing”, “zebra” and “moon”.
“You have 6 minutes..go!”
My poem, inspired by the Hey Diddle Diddle nursery rhyme (“the cow jumps over the moon”), and includes a French zebra attempting to soar over Saturn
is not destined to be a classic,
but woke my brain up for the day and reminded me once again
that writing can be playful, creative and challenging (in a good way!)
And with that, we were off into Week 4 of our Institute!
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