Writing exercises in April 4's workshop
星期日 四月 05, 2009 10:43 am
Thank Ellen S. Jaffe's wonderful workshop.
All of us enjoyed and learnt a lot.
We did three writing exercises:
1. to write "I am XXX" (We could think anything... five minutes to write)
2. to write a poem beginning with " When I sit dow to write" ( 5 minutes writing)
We all shared our works and they were wonderful. Then we had a break. We ate Boston Pizza.
The afternoon we had the revision for works we did in the morning. Then we had another writing exercise for sonnet. Then we read out our works.
I did not read my Sonnet, since I only thought half part.
This weekend I will work on these exercises and sent a thank-you email to Ellen and Elka.
My exercise 1:
I am a seed,
That ‘s all I know.
A gust carries me
high and low;
A wall stops me
where I don’t know.
I wish to hide under the snow
for a chance to wait to grow
Till then who I am I could know
waving twigs in the morning glow.
But now I am a seed,
no label, but a woe.
an orphan, maybe.
That is all I know.
2.When I sit down to write,
I think of you –
Words left to tell,
How wrong it felt.
In the dusty wind,
You knocked at a rock,
but no door was there.
A fish’s eye stared
into my drifting dream.
I heard what the sunset said,
reeds leaned to a coming snow.
Should I regret to leave
my heart alone,
behind the dim light cave?