Challenges

I'm not sure if this idea will catch on but I thought to ressurect some interest in the poetry board (!) , we could set each other challenges in the forms of certian topics or styles to write a piece of poetry or prose in? Sometimes i really struggle for inspiration and a little challenge can generate some new, fresh ideas and get the creative juices flowing again!

So i thought i'd set the first challenge, and anyone who wishes to take up the challenge (gosh, i make it all sound a bit dramatic!) can post their effort in the thread! Also, everyone else can feel free to submit challenges to provide more inspiration!

So this is my challenge:

Write a personna poem. This is a poem in which you take on another's perspective. You write as though you are that person/object/thing... It might be a historical figure, an animal, someone you know, a door...! ok, it can be anything!

Here is an example to get us going, a Sylvia Plath poem in which she writes as though she is a mirror or a reflection.

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful-
The eye of the little god, four cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.



Your turn

Sarah xx

I've just spent a while trying to do my first ever poem for this and I plain can't do it. I suck Ah well. It's a shame 'cos it's a nifty idea for a thread.

Edit: For the record, I attempted to write it from the perspective of my cat. What a life he has.

This kinda fell a bit flat...oops!

But I can set another challenge if anyone fancies a go?! No problem if not

Sarah xx

(worm)

Wibble

ooof!

dug up again!

damn kids, always the same

im not a toy

It's no fun game

but damn those dumb kids

this just aint my day