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15 Lines
an interesting exercise to try when you have writer’s block
I didn’t know what to write about for my Tuesday Slice of Life Challenge, so I went back to an exercise from Poets and Writers The Time is Now to collect 15 lines in a day and write from those lines.
Here are some lines I collected:
I write to honor childhood and extend dignity to children. —Caroline Starr Rose
The more unlikely the guest, the more likely it is that we are entertaining Jesus himself. —Bishop Jake Owensby
A great day to do nothing. —Carol RiceThe way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. –Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Everything we carry, even the smallest thing, has weight. —Clare Martin
Love the one you hold. —Mumford and SonsWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. —Winston Churchill
These lines spoke to me and this poem emerged, still rough, but it seems to be wanting to tell me something…
The way you see me is who I become.
I am the unlikely guest who stands
with feet crossed. My toenails are orange.
I wear a cross on my wrist
and another on my neck, in amethyst.
Am I the angel you will entertain today?
I cannot lift you without holding you,
holding some of what weighs you down.
Maybe if we interlock our hands,
intertwine our fingers, the load
will be easier to bear.
–Margaret Simon, all rights reserved
A new writing challenge by way of Teaching Authors: Write Fifteen Minutes a Day on Laurie Halse Anderson’s blog. Join me? Can you write 15 minutes today? Set a timer and just go for it.
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