NaPoWriMo 2015 - 4/30 - Longing for the Chrysalis

Now this one was a challenge to my mind for sure. Too much information to work with! I would love to see how you take the prompt below and form a poem from it. Post it in the comments or post a link to your blog. Happy writing! :-)


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Longing for the Chrysalis

Her ring ate it's way
through her left ring finger.
Crawling away
from the vein to her heart,
longing for change.

Perhaps to move
to her wrist,
where it could
fly with gestures
or be subdued and classy
while sipping wine.

Maybe it would rather
perch along her collar bone
shining like majesty
from her neck

never to be a symbol again.


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From Rachel's blog:

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2009 -- IMAGERY EXERCISE (MY ONE OF MANY)
The following exercise is about seven years old. I developed it while teaching poetry at Bellevue Hospital’s on-site high school. I've since given this exercise to slam team members and/or grown-ups and every time, unlike my students, these folks get hung up on part two of this exercise. They just can’t hang. Too many doors inside them closed. But let's give it a whirl:


IMAGERY EXERCISE:

Create three columns on a piece of paper (or Excel spreadsheet, ha!)

In Column One, write down twenty-five inanimate objects (or “objects that cannot just get up and walk away.”)

Column Two: write down the first animal that comes to mind when you think of the object in Column One. (Consider shape, movement, sound. A bullet is about the size of a cockroach, or it moves swift, like a shark or digs through skin, like a mosquito.)

Column Three: sounds or actions that animal makes.

Once you’ve completed all three rows, omit Column Two, and use Column Three to help give your objects character.

Create a line or poem that includes your combos.

For example:

wine glass / monkey / screech, hang, swing, play
eye / snail / crawl, slime, munch, lug

can become:

The woman gripped
her screeching wine glass
as her husband’s eyes
crawled across
the cleavage in the room.

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Personal note on the process:

So first the columns (see below). This part was the simple part. The animal choices I made seemed valid in the second that I did them but now that I look at this list, I have no idea what I was thinking on some of them! 

Then came the hard part: the poem-ing. SO many options! SO many pretty much unrelated things! Rachel's example was so SMOOTH.

I chose the following for my poem (as you could probably guess after looking at the list):

ring caterpilar eat/crawl/change

bracelet butterfly fly/sip

necklace eagle screech/fly/fish/hunt/perch

	OBJECT	ANIMAL	SOUNDS / ACTIONS
1	pen	cricket	chirp/jump/hop
2	cup	ladybug	buzz/fly
3	purse	dog	bark/growl/whine/chase
4	flower	hummingbird	buzz/fly/sip
5	jacket	kangaroo	bark/jump/box
6	plate	stingray	splash/swim
7	tablet	stick bug	crackle/walk/hide
8	coin	pigeon	coo/fly
9	hat	pig	oink/grunt/wallow/root/eat
10	rock	hedgehog	squeek/roll-up
11	chair	flamingo	squawk/fly/balance
12	tree	frog	ribbit/croak/jump/leap
13	building	cat	meow/purr/sneak/claw
14	teapot	spider	creep
15	pillow	bat	squeek/fly
16	gloves	snake	hiss/slither
17	sock	monkey	howl/whoop/leap/swing/climb
18	scarf	koala	grunt/whine/sleep/eat
19	phone	chameleon	blend/emote/change
20	notebook	zebra	bray/run/hide/graze
21	eyeglasses	owl	hoot/who/fly/hunt
22	lawn jockey	horse	neigh/run/leap
23	ring	caterpilar	eat/crawl/change
24	bracelet	butterfly	fly/sip
25	necklace	eagle	screech/fly/fish/hunt/perch