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posted by Saundra Akers on August 16th, 2010 at 11:09 AM

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Zip Collins is hearing whispers in the trees, the wind and in the waves of the water at Rocky Fork lake. My new venture is going pretty well with 10,000 words last week to start it.

I'm waiting for input to finish my final rewrite of Shattered Hart.

Have been reviewing some poems constructed from poetry in motion. For those who don't know there are about forty words in a hodgepodge of letters. You take each of those words and move them to construct a poem. You can only use what's available, can't add a word. Below are some writings thus constructed.

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▣ Poetry

posted by Saundra Akers on February 25th, 2010 at 11:25 AM

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In the past I wrote a lot of poetry feeling that I didn't have time to write anything longer but wanting to get a thought or idea down before I forgot it. In the last few years I haven't written much poetry but it is a fast and valid way to catch a moment in time, a thought before it is lost, or to paint a word picture of a scene.

 

For Memoirs writers:  Remember a scene from your childhood and try to paint a concise word picture of it using a poem, rhymed or unrhymed. It's amazing what can be pictured in such a few words.

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