Genre: Urban Arts
Creative Hour
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Facilitator: Nakeysha
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Where I’m From
George Ella Lyons
I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.
I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,
from Imogene and Alafair.
I'm from the know-it-alls
and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I'm from He restoreth my soul
with a cottonball lamb
and ten verses I can say myself.
I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost
to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.
Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments--
snapped before I budded --
leaf-fall from the family tree.
Oxymoron
Examples: Beautiful lie, a fine mess, act naturally, alone together, forgotten memories, fresh prunes
Love has both positive and negative sides. Brainstorm on the positive and negative aspects of love using single adjectives as descriptors in the chart below.
RHYMED STANZA
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Free Verse
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Descriptive Poetry
a written poem that creates a visual image that relates to its meaning
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Dramatic Monologue
a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character
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Brainstorm Activity
Using the worksheet below, collaborate with classmates to create the scenes of the poetry that we have read thus far.