Write a ten line poem. The poem must include a proverb, adage, or cliché that you have changed in some way as well as five of the following words:
- cliff
- needle
- voice
- whir
- strawberry
- cloud
- mother
- lick
You have ten minutes.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-cliches.html
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-proverbs.html
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-adage-in-literature.html
http://watchout4snakes.com/wo4snakes/Random/RandomWord
Try this list as a “spill”:
- northern
- put
- upper
- fast
- inquiry
- plastic
- limited
- grace
or this:
- estate
- measure
- underneath
- resemblance
- mortality
- theatre
- herd
- resurrection
If you don’t freeze immediately in terror – and the ridiculously short time allotment usually allays panic, since you know it is impossible to write a poem in ten minutes, right? – what tends to come out are scary and wild chunks of psychic landscape.