Poetry Challenge #240-Take Two
Have you ever been told you look like someone else or you remind the speaker of someone? Have you ever said that to another person? Has anyone ever called you the wrong name? Chances are you’re not alone. Happy National Look Alike Day!
According to Michael Sheehan, an assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University, who studies appearance variations and genetics, “‘You most probably have a doppelganger somewhere around the world,’” Sophie Chung reported in the Jan/Feb 2018 issue of M2Woman. “‘There is only so much genetic diversity to go around.”
“If you shuffle that deck of cards so many times, at some point, you get the same hand dealt to you twice.”
Poetry Challenge #240
Take Two!
Watch people and see who or what they remind you of.
Write a poem paying close attention to details that make the reader see this person/people too.
Repeat one line at least twice in the poem.
Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes
Start Writing!
Don’t Think About it, just do it!
After poeming, celebrate National Look Alike Day (April 20th) by binging on Doppelganger Television. Buffy the Vampire Slayer went to Doppelgangland. In one Seinfeld episode, George dates a girl who looks “exactly like” Jerry. Profilers has a doppelganger episode. And supposedly there’s a 2018 series Dopplegangers. For more, check out digitalspy’s post of silly doppelganger TV. Chances like this don’t come around twice . . .
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 #239-Scrabble Scramble
The game of Scrabble was invented by unemployed architect Alfred Mosher Butts during the depression. It was first produced and sold in 1948. Now, nearly a third of American homes own a game. And if you need an excuse to pull out and dust off your game—or click over online—every April 13th is National Scrabble Day. (I was so engrossed in a game I forgot to post…sorry…whoops a whole different game entirely.) Moving on:
Pick Your Letters—Any Letters!
Poetry Challenge #239
Scrabble Scramble
In honor of National Scrabble Day, let’s play: Draw 2 letters from a game of Scrabble, or pick the first 2 letters in an online version.
Use these letters as many times as possible in a poem about Scrabble, words, games, or keeping score.
Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes
Start Writing!
Don’t Think About it, just do it!
And now that you have the game out, convince someone to play!
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 #75-Anagram
Have you played a game where you’re given some letters and you have to see how many words you can make out of them? Bananagram and Scrabble are two family favorites. For today’s prompt, let’s start there and push it further.
Poetry Challenge #75
Anagram Poetry
For today’s poem, begin with a title. Then, create a poem from words you can make by rearranging the letters in the title. You might want to spend a few minutes listing words ala an anagram game before you start writing. You can come up with your own title or use one from the list below:
A Walk in the Garden
Birds Fly over My House
The Bus is Late--Again
Snow Falls in Silent Forests
Here’s Cindy’s attempt:
“The Last Time I Went to Town
The last time
I went to town,
the lawn was mown.
I lost a shoe,
the steam was mean.
It went to
a test to see what the mist meant.
Now was the time to stow meat low.
In the lost mantle, I settle.”
*Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 1030 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 poem in the comments.