Saturday, January 23, 2016

The Creativity Poem Practice a la Dreamreich Style

Here are the instructions for this creativity practice. It's about writing a poem from random thoughts.




I decided to describe this random image.

Five Minutes start now.

Colors are swirling. There is yellows and red and green. There are points swirling around. It seems almost like a dream. Some points are bigger, others are smaller. I don’t know if it is pretty but at least it is colorful. There is the middle that everything comes from. The points are smaller in the middle and they get bigger and clearer at the end. It is smudged. It’s like a rainbow, conveying happy feelings with colors. It’s like a colorful tornado. Round and round the colors go, creating a dreamlike state. And then the picture is cut off. It ends in the middle.
And the time is up.

Now I will strikethrough all the words that are not needed to convey the motif, the main content. Some people will cut more off some less, it all depends on the style:

Colors are swirling. There is yellow and red and green. There are points swirling around. It seems almost like a dream. Some points are bigger, others are smaller. I don’t know if it is pretty but at least it is colorful. There is the middle that everything comes from. The points are smaller in the middle and they get bigger and clearer at the end. It is smudged. It’s like a rainbow, conveying happy feelings with colors. It’s like a colorful tornado. Round and round the colors go, creating a dreamlike state. And then the picture is cut off. It ends in the middle.
After that order the leftover words into a wanted order and add dots, commas and capital letters. Don't change the form of a word. Give the poem a name.

The result:

A colorful dream 

Colors swirling.
Yellow.
Red.
Green.

Points swirling around,
like a dream,
bigger, smaller,
colorful.
Everything comes,
smaller in the middle,
bigger and clearer
at the end. 
Smudged,
a rainbow,
conveying happy feelings,
colors. 
A colorful tornado.
Round and round,
a dreamlike state,
cut off.

Regardless of whether you like the poem or not, at least it is something that I wouldn't have written otherwise.

I also wrote a poem this way a second time.

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