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Flowery Plates
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Students - Today's drafts were written in the car. Our family was going visiting, and so I wrote from the passenger seat. You can see that the minutes of notebooking tally up to thirty-five, but this poem did take longer. I spent a lot of time, eyes closed, just thinking and not timing myself at all. Daydreaming the poem into life. I also spent a lot of time playing with this poem in the typing stage. In fact, these last two stanzas did not appear until I typed.
For today's verse, the fun came in imagining walking around the rims of plates. This was my spark. And then, making the flowers disappear...well that just made me giggle a bit.
Challenges included finding spring flowers with the correct number of syllables. This sent me to a bit of research as I didn't want to include late summer or fall flowers at all.
You may have wondered why those last two lines are so short, shorter than the rest of the non-flower lines. I did consider keeping as one line. But somehow, the punch line of the dishes being "simply white" felt like more fun with a longer pause.
Here are today's drafts. You can see that I spent a little time trying to decide which object to choose.
Fine Antique Plates - Draft Page Spread #1
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Fine Antique Plates - Draft Page Spread #2
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Did you notice that the dishes in today's poemphoto are the same dishes as those in the THRIFT STORE LIVE logo?
Yes.
I bought them.
March 31, 2014 Shopping Cart - AmVets
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