“Gym, Tan, Laundry, Sonnet. GTLS Baby!”
-Willie Shakes
What do William Shakespeare and Snookie have in common? They both express themselves in ways the rest of us don’t quite understand.
Morning Folks, it’s JK on a Monday! Poetry has never been my thing. I don’t write it. I don’t read it. When it’s in a novel I’m reading, I skip it. It was the one thing I was dreading when I signed up for a creative writing class. To my surprise, poetry is so much more fun when you can relax and let it flow with a little humor. I’ve got three poems under my belt and each one presented a unique and fun challenge.
The first compared Alexander the Great to Teddy Roosevelt to a frat boy. Last week’s was 88 lines about 44 Disney movies (I loved that one, I’m such a Disney Geek). This week was a Found Poem. A poem created by using text found elsewhere and reorganizing it into a meaningful form.
I chose to combine the Immortal Bard with The Situation. Normally I don’t plan to share my assignments here, but I was so proud of how it came together that I just have to.
Life Wins This week 