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A Writing Assignment

First Published: January 11, 2015

Revised and Published:  November 27, 2022

 

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FIRST – Find a Photograph that you like.

Let that photo  become the  inspiration  to write.

 

 My Steps to Create a Poem from a Favorite Photo:

 

 

1._ Select a photograph that has special meaning for you.

 

2._ Sit quietly and look at the photo selected.

 

3._What colors do you see?

What do the colors make you think of as you look at the photo?

 

4._Write a few adjectives (describing words) about the colors.

 

5._Write some verbs (doing words) that reflect what the colors are doing in the photo? How does this make you feel?

 

6._Write about  the objects in the photo.

Do you see something you had not noticed previously? What is it?

 

7._Take the list you made while contemplating the photo;  arrange them into a poem. 

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2 Important TIPS to Remember –

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You can add or remove words as you write the poem.  I like to begin with many words. As I use those words I cross them off my list.  You can move your words around as you  are creating your poem.

 

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A poem is made to be READ OUT LOUD. So, as you are organizing the poem, stop now and then and READ IT OUT LOUD to yourself.  Listen to how your voice sounds as you read your poem. This helps a LOT when you are arranging and rearranging your lines.

 

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I looked at the photo of homemade bread on a pottery plate. It is the featured photo for this article.

 

My Photo title: Handmade Gifts

If a PHOTOGRAPH is worth a THOUSAND WORDS, I have no need to say much more.

 

As I write this poem, I simply say,

Thank You, Dear God

for warm colors and Gifts of Love.

 

I decide to write my poem as a prayer of appreciation to God for my friends  and family, for the gifts they give me.

 

I can also write a poem with the description of the actual objects in the photo as my focus. there are a number of options and ways you can begin the poem.

 

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Handmade Friends

 

Dear God,

my heart bursts With thankfulness

for HANDMADE friends.

I write with a  spirit of gratitude today.

You have given me friends who know

the value of  handmade”love.

There are no gifts to compare with

gifts made by their own hands.

These presents are the best ones.

Thank you, dear Kathy Szakleheidi for

homemade bread and rolls

cards and notes, messages of love.

Delightful mornings with my coffee in

hand-crafted ceramic mugs

given to me by Heidi McClure

handmade mugs

from the potter’s hands.

I am grateful for delicious treats

from Raylene Italiano’s kitchen

her homemade jelly and loaves of bread

on winter days

her cookies made with  love.

 Ilsa Barry and Salome Mengel kept me supplied

with  coffee  – so tasty.

Special thanks, in memory, of my precious friend

June Molohon Kerstetter

for her handmade pottery plates

and more

She  gave me  more memories than

I can ever hold in my hands.

 HAND MADE, HAND SELECTED,  GOD GIVEN FRIENDS.

 

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