Day Thirty Two: Petite Paragraphs

 A word is not the same with one writer as with another.  One tears it from his guts.  The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.  ~Charles Peguy

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  ~Sylvia Plath

Today's exercise comes from the wonderful and fun Write Brain Workbook by Bonnie Neubauer.

"Here's a chance to write short paragraphs of memory snippets. Use the starters provided."

I remember running....

I remember spitting....

I remember growing...

I remember Valentine's Day...

I remember liking...

I remember feeling...

Take the next step: Take one phrase from each of these six paragraphs and combine them to form a poem.

Later

I'm keeping the paragraphs private, but the idea of the poem is interesting. Mine doesn't really work, but was fun anyway and I can see a potential poem here.

Exercise #32

by Laurie Guerin

I could tell you that I was tired of always trying to do what’s right

who would have guessed it?

little tissue-paper buds formed in random places

I was sure mine would be empty

coated in raspberry jam and rolled in coconut

I gave what was mine to give

took what I had no right to take