Make Visible: Workshop Poems
To continue our series on the Muse Online Writers Conference and our Poetry Workshop last fall, I present to you two poems that were written during the conference.
Even though the Poetic Muselings were “teaching” or facilitating the Poetry Workshop, we also “learned” from each other and the participants. I always come up with new writing when I attend MuseCon and this time was no exception. Here are two poems that literally wouldn’t have existed if not for our workshop and MuseCon.
- Persona Poems
Persona poems are poems that are written in a voice other than that of the author, where the author pretends to be someone else. ~Margaret Fieland
This is the prompt I used for my Persona Poem:
– The loneliest keys on the keyboard that never get used
Typewriter Keys (Photo credit: jon|k)
A Question
Q?
I have a question.
Why am I so neglected?
You like E and A
and I far too much.
You never type Quasimodo or Quack
Or even misspell, using Q for K.
I’m in a quandary.
There’s not much I can do,
the letter Q
on your keyboard,
lonely, upset, tired.
I know I shouldn’t quomplain,
but I do.
Q?
© Anne Westlund
- Ekphrasis / Picture Poem
An Ekphrasis or Picture Poem is a poem inspired by a work of art. I was inspired by Visual 5, a collage by Lin Neiswender.
Visit to the Beauty Shop
Like a chorus of blondes
they tell me my hair is fried
from at-home color
These hairdressers
all perfectly coiffed
like angels of desire
swoop in and mutter over
my split ends
In need of proper maintenance,
conditioning and decent upstanding
expensive $$ permanent color
I don’t know whether to laugh
or cry
I’ll stick to my box color
I’ll stick to my free hair cuts
thank you very much!
The choir shrieks off-key
paling against the vagaries
of economy
So much for a “free” consultation
I don’t leave a tip.
© Anne Westlund
Please check out the Muse Online Writers Conference and sign up for next year’s conference here: http://themuseonlinewritersconference.com/
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”~Robert Bresson, French Film Director
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