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!
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Hafiz & I
I’ve come to terms with there will never be a “You and I”
I deserve someone who is enraptured by who I am
Someone with who makes me feel blissful
Not someone who ignores me in the day and
Only notices me when he is bored and drunk
I’m done waiting for someone who doesn’t care and
Demanding love that is overflowing.
(From the fifth line of Hafiz's poem "The Great Secret")
Challenge
Break your reader's heart in thirty words
Exclude any swearing and blasphemy and good luck!
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