Poetry Challenge #259-Catch Me a Catch
What are Dolly Madison, Yente, Headhunters…Literary Agents…best at? Matchmaking. Bringing people projects and products together! Without them many of us would be living little lonely unfulfilled—literarily-speaking anyway—existences. And I’m not the only one who believes this for today, August 31st is National Matchmaker Day, an entire day dedicated to celebrating Matchmakers who bring us together to help make happy endings happen.
Tzeitel! Hodel! Chava! Sing it Sisters: Matchmaker! Matchmaker! Make me a match/find me a find/catch me a catch…
Yente from Fiddler on the Roof , music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein,
Poetry Challenge #259
Catch Me a Catch
Peanut Butter and Jelly; Fried Chicken Feet and Movies; George and Gracie; Green Eggs and Ham—someone back in some long-forgotten time decided that these things would go together. Happy Endings!
Now it’s your turn. You are the Matchmaker in this prompt.
Your job is to bring two seemingly unconnected things together in a poem. For inspiration here’s an effort by Pablo Neruda:
Set the Timer for 7 Minutes!
Start Writing!
Don’t Think About it, just do it!
Amy and Mona, this one is for you!
Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge 2000+ days ago. Now we take turns creating prompts to share with you. Our hope is that creatives—children & adults—will use our prompts as springboards to word play time. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.
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Poetry Challenge #49-Poem Stew
Back when Cindy taught at teen writing camp, one of their favorite activities was Story Stew. "We would call out an “ingredient” and one of the campers would supply it. When we had our seven words, we’d write a story or poem, trying to use each of the words. It was always surprising how different the stories were."
Poetry Challenge #49
Poem Stew
You can find ingredients for a poem stew yourself. If someone is nearby, ask them for the words in the manner of Mad Libs. Or find them in anything around you: books, magazines, newspapers, the room you’re in.) You will need two nouns (something you can see or touch, not capitalized if possible), a color, a place (not capitalized), an adjective (a word that describes), a verb (an action), and an abstract noun (a word that you can’t touch that names an idea: beauty, hope, justice, chance).
Here are some ingredients I found in case you need them: milkweed, laughter, mulberry, market, delicious, yearn, hope.
Set the timer for 7 minutes.
Start writing!
Don’t think about it too much; just do it.
Poem Stew Playlist:
- A Little Pinch of This & That by Giara
- Les Poissons from Littlest Mermaid
- Antevka from The Fiddler on the Roof
*Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 850 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. (This one is Cindy's.) 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 poem in the comments.