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 Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:52pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
was stranded, had to call someone to bring money to me. just getting home. I have a question sir. How long is free verse? how many stanzas? how many lines? |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:54pm On Mar 15, 2015 |
lots of people are missing, all should come here noe |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:25pm On Mar 15, 2015 |
go on, I'm learning, teachers |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:22pm On Mar 15, 2015 |
EverestdeBliu:he should be here soon after he finishes his green eba |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:13pm On Mar 15, 2015 |
texanomaly:go on |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:07pm On Mar 15, 2015 |
I dey class oo |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 5:13pm On Mar 15, 2015 |
Gladyys:You are welcome |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 1:37pm On Mar 15, 2015 |
Gladyys:I'm glad you did |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:10am On Mar 14, 2015 |
Lucentbeauty:I so much like this |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:00am On Mar 14, 2015 |
harlos:Now this is a writer genius! Good enough to be the teachers' teacher. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 8:56am On Mar 14, 2015 |
Gladyys:you are good at rhyming. this is a very good write up. but as a kid, how do you feel about the fan? its color and the ceiling it was tight to? did you ever think of it falling down on you? etc..you have lots of things u are not making use of. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:48pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
Gladyys:what or where is the object here? Please explain |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:46pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
yuzjet:perfectly written, write up bros. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:43pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
harlos:this is good objects, but you are not making use of most of what you have. Make us see the door. The color of the door. What sound did the door make when opened or closed? Was it openable by kids or too Harvey for kids..etc |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:39pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
JigsawKillah:fantastically written. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:44pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
JigsawKillah:this is great brother. But you never tell us why you like it as a kid, how it felt in your hands etc |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:39pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
EverestdeBliu:thanks, I will always like to learn from you sir, |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:32pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
harlos:Fantastic! But what about "My Mother's Cooking Spoon"? That will make it more interesting... People will like to know what you want say about your moms spoon, her cooking? What is the job of the spoon when she cooked... Etc |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:27pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
Gladyys:Articles Of Faith - Using Objects in Poetry. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:25pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
I hope you all enjoy the class tonight, I'm not as good as other teachers, I'm learning from you guys all. Once again, thank you all for coming into the class, Donifez, Yuzjet and others. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:20pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
The first exercise that I bring to the class tonight is designed, therefore, with two aims in view: to encourage this intensity of focus and to bring the senses back into writing. Tonight, let's forget about the meaning and messages, and to become like children again, exploring the world with a child's curiosity and immediacy. Here is selection of household objects which include light bulb, scarf, spoon, pepper grinder... Etc. Each student is to explore his or chosen object further using his or her other senses, making notes on the appearance of his or her object, any sound it might make, taste, smell, etc. Each student should widen his or her writing to include any memories or other thoughts triggered by the object. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:07pm On Mar 12, 2015*. Modified: 9:37pm On Mar 12, 2015 |
[b] Enter the class, my eyes, searching for Everest, Donifez, Jig, and others, couldnt find any one. Good evening class! Hoping to hear the students response. None, nothing, no one in the class. What should I do? I should start my class since we have lots of invisible students. Articles Of Faith - Using Objects in Poetry. 'It (poetry) creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.' 'Description is itself a kind of travel.' Tonight, I will start with doubting Thomas. In the New Testament, Thomas is famous as the disciple who is only convinced in the risen Christ when he sees the crucifixion wounds for himself, when his fingers can actually touch them. Christ's riposte is to tell him 'blessed are they that have not see, yet have believed'. This is all very well for a religion. Religions require faith. Poetry is not a religion. Let's imagine that doubting Thomas is reading our poems. He is not prepared to take anything on faith; so what if you are happy or sad or angry, why should he believe you? The only way you can convince him of the truth of what you are saying is by making him feel it; with his eyes, his ears abf , yes, his fingers. I have founded that using objects early on in a poetry course helps students to begging writing in a way that will satisfy the most doubting of Thomases. Focusing on an object sensitizes us again to the physical world, an alertness that tends to finish once we've left childhood behind. By using objects I am trying to help us recapture a sense of wonder, which in turn helps us rediscover or strengthens an excitement in the possibilities of language. The two are closely connected; just as we tend to use language in a formulaic way in ordinary life, so we can be lazy in the way we encounter the world physically. We spend a great deal of time editing out our environment, not noticing its richness as we tick off our tasks for the day. There are other reasons, too, which make working with objects of particular value in writing of poetry. One of the differences between poetry and prose is, I think, a question of focus. Whilst acknowledging that there are areas where the two genres do overlap, in general, poetry is more tightly and intensely focused than prose. Reading prose is like walking into a room and switching on an overhead light: you can see everything in the room at once. Poetry on the other hand, is more like walking into the same room and switching on a torch: although you don't srr all that's there, what you do see appears with greater intensity by virtue of that single beam.[/b] |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 11:54pm On Mar 08, 2015 |
I'm a bad poet.... here is my free verse UNPROTECTED JUNGLE Where is the sun? Those greedy trees that can not shade all her animals will not over power. Bashful jungle craving control. Those days are on their way. Her dwelling animals kidnapped by BH, The Blood Hunter. Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Wolf, fox and Python- The leaders. On rules positioned officials live, Market convenience, earn bad revenue. System make fool, position is always abused. If I had all that power, No longer would the slithering Python and Lion Invade the private domain Devouring harmless jungle dwellers. The jungle needs clearing, its canopy made lush, to shelter from heavy rain. The storm clouds of dishonesty and insecurity collide. Brooms promise to clear. Umbrellas promise to cover. The clearing is not with the brooms, Nor the covering with the umbrellas. They forsake the promise. Propriety rules where are thee? To be most concerned with having the lead? Hope of our future is lost- since promising seeds gain knowledge from a smoldering jungle. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:39pm On Mar 08, 2015 |
texanomaly:You are very right. World People.... there's a melting pot of nations and religions, and culture, but we are all living under the same sky, and if anyone chose not to live in harmony with others irrespective of any cultures and religions, then that person should be considered a terrorist |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:33pm On Mar 08, 2015 |
EverestdeBliu:Are the teachers allowed to submit? am I qualified to win the prize? |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:00pm On Mar 08, 2015 |
first to come to the class |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:23pm On Mar 05, 2015 |
JigsawKillah:[color=][/color]  |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:48pm On Mar 05, 2015 |
JigsawKillah:create passion, love what you do. Get rid of fear. Allow your pen to wander, just now, on this range of subjects. spend time afterwards on seeing what associations and connections you have made. Then set down these futlrther associations as a list - 'boiled eggs', 'Boko Haram, etc, and see how fat another blast and burst of writing can take you. It's endless. There's an awful lot of ready-mades materials inside you that you haven't even started to tap. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:38pm On Mar 05, 2015 |
Here is exercise instruction in Haiku Now write a short poem. Free verse. One hundred words. You have ten minutes. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:34pm On Mar 05, 2015 |
[b] Writing creatively takes a peculiar kind of concentration. A concentration that develops its own little habits and tripwires to help set it off. We always want to know HOW authors write, as if their behavioural patterns might be an indicator of how to do it ourselves. But these habits are as idiosyncratic as the writer: Mr Everest could only write if he eat FUFU, Donifez only when his girl is not around, Gloria likes to write in bed, longhand, between the hours of midnight and 2am,. And if I'm milling over a problem, I'll go out for a long drive and play the car stereo really loud. Don't expect to write a whole poem or story in one breath. If you get stuck halfway through a piece, be prepared to go back and start again. Make notes on your story or poems, your character, your use or words, your rhythm, iambic, your setting. Though it nay feel like treading water, like the notes aren't 'proper' writing, they are essential to the process of developing a sense of what you want to say and of finding the added layers of character and setting or rhythm that will make the craft convincing. [/b] |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:21pm On Mar 05, 2015 |
Buy a notebook and a few good-quality pens and take yourself out for the day. GI and sit in a cafe, get an extra large cup of ice cream and write for few hours. I used to sit down near osun river right up at the end by the dam bridge, where no one could disturb me and write a few character sketches of the people I see around me. Good writing practice is about discipline. You want to be limbered up, supple articulate, but this will only happen when you are locked into a groove. If you find it hard to puck up the beat day after day, trick yourself. I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly sketches out, so that when I start again I can pick up where I left off the day before. |
| Poems For Review › Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:12pm On Mar 05, 2015 |
Write every day. Even if it is only letter. Now you've put pen to paper, you want to they to write something everyday. Each of us should set yourself some achievable targets. Try to write that poem you've always meant to write about the mad woman with orange hair who lives down the road or that poem about your cat. Choose concrete subjects: draw some words sketches if your living room, your backyard, the fish tank, the coming Presidential election. Get into the habit of looking for the telling details, and don't waste adjectives - when you qualify a noun, or use a rhyme, make it interesting, pertinent, unusual. You want to have words at your fingers tips, so read like mad. Everything and anything: dictionaries, crockery books, novels, poetry, biographies, text books, car manual, techno manual, football programmes, magazines. Write lists of words and keep them near you; if you get stuck write five hundred words using a new word in every sentence. |
