Getting Into Poetry

Our bloggers here at Willow Patterns Remixed have been experimenting with different methods and strategies to cut up, mix, glue, flip, scramble, sample, reference, jumble, and remix the stories told over a year ago in Willow Patterns. So far we've written a few letters from the perspective of different characters present in the 9 short stories, each connecting them together. But now we are going to be looking at poetry.

Some find the hardest thing about poetry is choosing something worth writing about that hasn't been done before. So our bloggers are not only looking at different styles of poetry, but also what can be created from the creations of others.

Here's a simple sonnet and haiku Maddy came up with.

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Sonnet – The rhyming poem, first 12 lines, every other line rhymes. The last 2 lines rhyme with each other.

Reading Willow Patterns was like waking up every morning experiencing a new day.

Every chapter was completely different from the next, a new story to tell.

However, array of topics were to be spoken of within each chapter in a certain way.

Each author could do with them what they liked.

Showing us their flair and creative sway.

Some chapters I thoroughly enjoyed, while others’ not so much.

I thought some were quite dark, mysterious and quite frankly, gray.

It was a project put before 9 authors to finish within a 24 hour time frame.

Completing a task in that timeframe would have felt like they were writing an essay.

They were stuck in a library amongst that whole time,

Eating pizza, endless snacks, and drinking coffee while they felt they were fading away.

Oh what a brilliant job they did,

Their work must be applauded and admired for being shut away.

Writing a book within 24 hours, without turning away.

Haiku - Only 3 lines and is 17 syllables all up
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
And doesn’t have to rhyme


Haiku 1:

Willow Patterns was

A book with nine great stories

Written in post haste