Thursday, January 31, 2013

15 sentence poem








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http://jeriwb.com/writers-workout-15-sentence-portrait-poem-317/15-Sentence Portrait Guidelines

For a title, choose words for an emotion or a color that represents an important person in your life. You will not mention this person’s name in the writing.
1. For the first-line starter, choose one of the following:
• You stand there… / No one is here… / In this (memory, photograph, dream, etc.), you are… / I think sometimes… / The face is… / We had been… / Now complete this sentence.
2. Write a sentence with a color in it.
3. Write a sentence with a part of the body in it.
4. Write a sentence with a simile (a comparison using like or as).
5. Write a sentence of over 15 words.
6. Write a sentence under eight words.
7. Write a sentence with a piece of clothing in it.
8. Write a sentence with a wish in it.
9. Write a sentence with an animal in it.
10. Write a sentence in which three or more words alliterate; that is they begin with the same initial consonant, as in “Suzie sells seashells by the seashore.”
11. Write a sentence with two commas.
12. Write a sentence with a smell and a color in it.
13. Write another sentence with a simile.
14. Write a sentence with four words or less in it.
15. Write a sentence to end this portrait that uses the word or words you chose for a title.

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