POETRY SLAM 2004

Instructions

1. Choose a topic or topics. Circle your topic/s.
2. Use at least 5 of the words provided to construct a poem of any length on a blank sheet of paper or the back of this page. Ideas for form provided below.
3. Place your completed form in the poetry slam box. You may complete more than one if it strikes your fancy. You may collaborate or work alone.
4. At the appointed time those interested will congregate in the front room and those who choose to read/perform the poems will randomly choose them from the box and recite them to the amusement or mortification of others. Fun!

Topics

(choose one per poem or mix-n-match!)

1. Soy Sauce : You know it's dangerous. You know you love it. Now you can sing its praises.
2. Weasels and members of the weasel family. Annoying, dirty and potentially dangerous or well-meaning and misunderstood?
3. Romania
4. The Brain Drain. Outsourcing, not only manual labor, now intelligence and skill.
5. Flame-throwers, professional and/or amateur. People who do it or the things themselves. For use in circus acts or teh battlefield.
   
   
   

Word List

(Please use at least 5 of the following randomly chosen words in your composition)

weasel, treacle, globular, probe, modular, Wallachian, appraise, malaise, collard greens, ignited, .

Form

Your poem may take any form and be of any length. You may choose that it be a song, in which case you may want to provide notes on the melody or rhythm to which it should be sung. It can rhyme, be as formal as a sonnet or sestina. It could be a rap song, blank verse or a haiku (5, 7, 5 syllables.) It could be a limerick. It could be some rhyming ad shtick. Just make something up and stick it in the box. Thanks.

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