A few years back, author and poet Rain Graves came up with an exercise that was a lot of fun. She challenged folks to give her any three random words, and she proceeded to take those words, no matter how ill-fit, and write a poem that used all of them. I joined in, and several of those I wrote are going to be published this fall in a Halloween poetry anthology – I made good money!
Rain, myself, and Mark McLaughlin wrote a book together called “The Gossamer Eye,” which won the Bram Stoker Award for poetry…I don’t write it as often as I should. This will hopefully inspire me. Send me three words. Comment here, or send them on Twitter. I will keep track of the words, and who sent them, and when I have finished making them all into poetry, I’ll show you – fair enough? Challenge me!
Maybe tonight I’ll post the first few. Anyway, I wrote this blog post once, and Wordpress mangled and ate it (lol). Here it is again…leave me three words in the comments section, or send them to me on twitter.
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Love, fire, dragon. Can we play more than once? =)
relative, peace, homecoming
Sure, play as often as you like…within reason.
crepuscular, gibbous, lettuce