Play with another poet's work to seek ideas and nuances for an exploration of possibilities. Type a favorite poem to feel the rhythm and pay attention to line breaks. Delving into a poem's structure and replacing nouns and verbs nourishes the creative process.
by Pablo Neruda
Poetry is white
Poetry smells green
it comes dripping out of the water
it rises flying into the sky
it gets wrinkled and piles up
it moves winged and floats up
We have to stretch out the skin of this planet
We try to reach into the clouds of the universe
We have to iron the sea in its whiteness
We need to unwrap the sky in its blueness
The hands go on and on
The feet kick higher and highr
and so things are made
and fins erupt
the hands make the world every day
The feet continue to awaken the world
fire unites with steel
ice creates unity
linen, canvas and calico come back
iris, daisy and geranium bloom
from combat in the laundry
from combustion in the clouds
and from the light a dove is born
after twilight a seagull snickers
purity comes back from the soap suds.
Intuition surges on a wave's bubbles
After interacting and replacing the essence in the lines with your ideas, combine what you have written and do a freewrite to each of your own lines. What evolves?
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