It's time to “work out” your writing muscles. Take a deep cleansing breath and stretch!
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Find three to six poems with a similar theme. My themes were dreams and nature. I printed each poem on a different color paper and cut them line by line with a paper cutter.. You can also use scissors.
The poems are color coded. Click the poet to see the poem:
1. Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson,
2. Dreams by Langston Hughes
3. Dream Dust by Langston Hughes
Love is a little white bird
Only by the faint whirr of its wings
For more writing inspiration share your jigsaw poem with us.
Find three to six poems with a similar theme. My themes were dreams and nature. I printed each poem on a different color paper and cut them line by line with a paper cutter.. You can also use scissors.
The poems are color coded. Click the poet to see the poem:
1. Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson,
2. Dreams by Langston Hughes
3. Dream Dust by Langston Hughes
4.
Excerpt
- (On white paper)
Little
Word, Little White Bird
by Carl Sandburg
by Carl Sandburg
Love is a little white bird
And the flight of it so fast
You can't see it
And you know it's there Only by the faint whirr of its wings
And the hush song coming so low to your ears
You fear it might be silence
And you listen keen and you listen long
And you know it's more than silence
For you get the hush song so lovely
It hurts and cuts into your heart
And what you want is to give more than you can get
And you'd like to write it
but it can't be written
And you'd like to sing it
but you don't dare try
Because the little white bird sings it better than you can5. Summer Grass by Carl Sandburg
6. Dream Variations
by Langston Hughes
Next, supply your writing group with glue sticks, the poetry line strips, and a plain piece of paper. Work together as a team. Everyone draws two to three strips of poetry from the pile without looking at the words.
Each person reads their poetry line strips silently, then takes turns reading the lines they selected to each other. One person starts the puzzle poem by putting down a line.
Continue until everyone uses a line or two and the lines make sense with the poem you are creating.You can hand write in lines or words to complete your poem. Title your poem and your jigsaw poem is finished. It's fun to read the poems by the famous poets to see where the lines were originally used.
For more writing inspiration share your jigsaw poem with us.
