Your weekly prompt to flex those creative muscles, from Philip Theibert.

Philip is the author of The Blockbuster Book of Brain Expanding, Creativity Enhancing, Writing Exercises.

Write a comparison poem.

This exercise is straightforward. Write about life. Okay, the exercise involves more than that. Write about life, but compare life to something. Here’s the example. Note how the comparison is carried all the way through the poem, by the constant use of football words.

Example:

Game Film

In football

they study game film

to analyze the opponent

to see what plays he will run against you

But in life there are so many opponents

cancer, heart attacks, broken hearts

accidents, children, lovers, old age luck

– bad and good

Death blitzing

and what game film can capture all of that?

 

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