Writing Exercise

In my class (Creative Writing for Teachers) we did a fun writing Lose Weight Exercise today. We were given different news articles and a few poems. We went through and circled phrases or words randomly without spending time picking and choosing. After we were done, we were to put them together, not necessarily into a poem, but just thrown together to see what would come of it. This is very similar to creating a Found Poem. The purpose of this Lose Weight Exercise is to see the beauty in playing with words and also to understand how poetry works. It sparks imagination and can even cause your words to grow into something more. The following stanzas/lines are what I put together during the Lose Weight Exercise. Some of the lines were complete in their form and some sentences are made up of words I took from different places individually.

His grown daughters
love leaking out unguarded the way
poisons on their mind.

When I was a kid in the late 1960s
bad guy terrorists were shoving a guy
in a wheelchair over a side of the ship.

At night when everyone should be asleep
they battled a tank that was robbing banks and
sabotaging oil wells.

Cornfields, a mountain and winter snow
skiing is recommended.
to spend their golden years
to retire with a list of kudos.

Leaders from China share global circus events.

The milkman tries to stop by at dawn,
he is also a strange bird.

The car is awesome.
A replica.
Hijacking metered parking, goods,
services and intellectual property.