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 Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 078
Posted by Robert
Quick note: Four of my poems were recently posted in the most recent issue of Otoliths. One poem in particular from that bunch I had been trying to get published for more than a year. So, it just goes to show that persistence pays off in the end. Click here to read them.
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For today's prompt, I want you to write a backwards poem. I'll be interested to see what everyone writes (including myself here in a few minutes). Some ideas for writing backwards poems: Write your poem in reverse chronological order OR instead of writing from most important details to least, go least to most important OR flip the point of view of a poem (instead of writing about the good guys' perspective, write from the bad guys--or vice versa) OR take it in some other completely different direction (as long as that direction is somewhat backwards).
Here's my attempt:
"Ohio Geography"
Zanesville-place to stay the night when lost
Youngstown-pot holes big enough to swallow a car
Xenia-always worried a tornado will hit
Waynesville-antique capital of the midwest
Vandalia-place to visit as a child, forget as an adult
Upper Sandusky-actually south of actual Sandusky
Troy-eat strawberries along the river levee
Sharonville-has a nice park for running hills
Reynoldsburg-wrong side of Columbus
Quaker City-pretty much self-explanatory
Perrysburg-has a water tower south of Toledo
Oxford-attractive college campus and students
New Lebanon-nice town to drive through without stopping
Mansfield-largest all boys track relay meet in midwest
Lebanon-has a horse track and other stuff
Kettering-great place to raise a family
Jeffersonville-outlet shopping madness
Ireland-tucked away in corner no one ever visits
Hillsboro-place to escape after graduation
Greenville-weird circle in middle of town
Fairfield-caught between Cincinnati and Hamilton
Eaton-home of the Preble County Pork Festival
Dayton-birthplace of aviation and Paul Laurence Dunbar
Columbus-the heart of the heart of it all
Bowling Green-flat land with one big manmade hill
Ashtabula-Lake Effect Snow
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