Poetry Challenge #42-Let’s Get Physical

There is “something” in the way we move. The way our muscles, tendons, bones, joints, skin . . . work together to create movement.

If you're keen to see muscles in action click over to this video by Muscles in Motion. But not now! First exercise your poetics!

Watching someone move is one thing, describing what that movement looks or feels like is another.

People are sometimes likened to animals, machines, plants, geological formations.

Likewise, machines, animals, plants, etc, are sometimes likened to people in songs, stories, and yes, poetry.

Poetry Challenge #42

Let’s Get Physical

Watch or imagine someone or something in motion. The motion might be a big whole body movement like dancing, jumping, swaying, diving, tumbling, or it might be a movement as tiny as the blink of an eye or twitch of a baby toe.

If you’re game, get physical! Try replicating the motion yourself (nothing too dangerous). While in motion, pay close attention to each minute movement of your body. How do you feel? What do you feel like? Does that movement remind you of something? An eel? A kangaroo? An oil pump?

Now, write a poem in which you describe that movement by likening it to something else.

Set the timer for 7 minutes.

Start writing!

Don’t think about it too much; just do it.

Let’s Get Physical Playlist:

Something In The Way She Moves by James Taylor  

Something by The Beatles   

Let’s Get Physical sung by Olivia Newton John

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge at least 2900 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole dang poem. Scroll down and click on the comments!

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