Challenge
Write a Golden Shovel
The golden shovel poetic form created by Terrance Hayes and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks: Here are the rules for the Golden Shovel:
- Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.
- Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.
- Keep the end words in order.
- Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).
- The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/17315
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/244278
Source: https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/golden-shovel-poetic-form
I will also be posting my own as a referance! Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with!
Break a Leg
A bunch of them are talking over there.
I nod and smile and follow the cues, but we all know how this goes.
I never learned how to be someone.
Turns out we have a lot in common, but I can’t shake the feeling I don’t belong here.
The urge to connect comes and then goes.
These situations never amount to more than nothing.
(There - Bo Burnham)
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