One-Day Workshop Collection
Write Around Portland One-day/Two hour Workshop
2 minute free write
Prompts:
“In my pocket…”
or
“You can’t tell by looking…”
If you look in my pocket
You would never guess
That the seeds are from my grandson
Who left quite a mess.
He’s three years old, you see
And was elated and gleeful
To help me pot new plants
In every empty hole that was freeful.
8 minute free write
Prompts:
“In the woods…”
or
“Through the garden gate…”
or
Write about one of the plant objects passed around the table.
The many shapes of green. Elongated and prickly and stiff. Soft and fragile. Delicate and fuzzy as a lamb’s ear. Always the background for vibrant ad sometimes fragrant blossoms. The bright white petals dancing in circles around a brilliant yellow center. Safire blue bells dangling down from upright stems. Lipstick red trumpets looking skyward. Without green they would all be fallen petals faded by age.
Haiku exercise
or
Prompts:
“Every spring…”
or
“As the nights gets shorter…”
My mind has gone blank
As I sit here thinking of
Words that might make sense
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(a bag was passed around the table that contained strips of paper on which singles words had been written. We were instructed to take two of the strips and try to use the words in our writing.)
Two words from the bag
“Life” and “tides” signify
Beginnings and ends
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Hushed concentration
Stills the room and makes waiting
A silent pleasure.
__________________________
Kind proprietors
Open doors to hopeful writers
Grateful for this place.
I sent a copy of this to the café where the workshop was held. They were normally closed on this day but they opened their doors just to us.
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Haiku is “yes” to
Sharing feelings old and new
With others in the crew.
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Birds on the highway
Duck their heads as cars whiz by.
Keep right of the white line.
10 minute free write
A bag was passed around the table that contained strips of paper on which singles words had been written. We were instructed to take three of the strips and try to use the words in our writing. My words were: Frog, bluebird and cool.
Walking down the path that
Leads to the cool, blue pond
I glimpse creatures dart about,
Like the frog, of which I am fond.
The bluebird serenades me
And lifts my spirits high
With his wondrous sweet song
Which always elicits a sigh.
5 minute free write
Prompts:
“5 minutes from now…”
or
“5 things I love…”
Five things I love are, of course
My daughter, my son, and two grandkids,
Which actually only adds up to four,
So I guess I’ll admit I love the one behind my eyelids
Naida Lavon
05-11-10