I Turn the Page

Dance with butterflies. I turn the page.
A magician comes. I turn the page.
I carry a corpse. I turn the page.
With horns made of gold. I turn the page.
Enchanted darkness. I turn the page.
Camel and the mirage. I turn the page.
Above me. I turn the page.
The moon hides and I turn the page.
You are far away from me. I turn the page.




Note: The process used for writing this poem is: randomly turn a page, count three lines and use words from the fourth line. Add "I turn the page"
Book used: Love, Death and Exile: Poems Translated from Arabic by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati. Translated by: Bassam K. Frangieh.

Who is looking at the moon?

Is that you or the moon?
Do you feel cold when you look out the window at the moon?
Do you want to cover up the moon?
Are you pointing that thing at the moon?
Did you go to a party on the moon?
Will it end late or soon at the moon?
Who will be at the moon?
Will the sun come to the moon?
Do you want to live on the moon?

Write a List Poem

Creative Writing Club members wandered around the LAS Building and made a list of words that they encountered on signs around the building.

Eyman's List

attitude

like; there
in all the pirate's loot
you can be good
that many times

i love you
sat - thurs
don't make excuses
go see Miss Sarah

Compose an Erasure

1) Find an article in a magazine.
2) Obscure irrelevant words (or leave important words uncovered).
3) Combine with an image.
4) Cite your sources beneath your image.

Fatma's Erasure

in limbo

"Mining in Latin American: From Conflict to Co-Operation." The Economist. 6 Feb. 2016, p. 33.

Asmaa's Erasure

Write a Cinquain

My graphic organizer on the whiteboard.

Wikipedia indicates that a cinquain is a poetic form that uses a 5-line pattern. There are different variations of the form, but we worked with the following structure:

Line 1: 2
Line 2: 4
Line 3: 6
Line 4: 8
Line 5: 2

Each line should include the number of syllables or, if that proved too difficult, words to include in each line. For an added twist, we added lines in reverse order to create a butterfly cinquain:

Line 1: 2
Line 2: 4
Line 3: 6
Line 4: 8
Line 5: 2
Line 6: 8
Line 7: 6
Line 8: 4
Line 9: 2

The explanation might not be clear, but, perhaps, by looking at what we made, it might become clearer.

Students

Students

Who work harder

Always get a good grade

But it depends on how they work

Teachers

Who always have time for students

To make them understand

Everything that

They say

Two Cinquains

her story

swallowed up whole collections

of stories words and other stuff

she just made everything her own little world

she did

and she made up her mind to return

none of it to its owner

she swallowed it all

and laughed

Students

& teachers learn

from each other often;

however, they don't often know

the time

it takes to realize the truth

or how much time it takes

or what it's worth

or not.

Tick Tok

I Am...

Club members moved around the LAS Building and found an object. Then they wrote about how that object sees the world. As an added challenge, students took a picture of the object.

People see me and they are confused because of the way that I look.

People see me and they are confused because of the way that I look.

They watch me differently when they pass by me.

They do not know what I am doing here or where I come from, that is a sign of how they hate me. they do not even bother to know my background.

All of the things that people say about me does not matter that is who I am and I know from where I come from.

It is something unique that only people who have a creative mind and thinking follow me and that is because they do not care about the shapes and flaws that I have.