And now our final prompt! Find a shortish poem that you like, and rewrite each line, replacing each word (or as many words as you can) with words that mean the opposite. For example, you might turn “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” to “I won’t contrast you with a winter’s night.” Your first draft of this kind of opposite poem will likely need a little polishing, but this is a fun way to respond to a poem you like, while also learning how that poem’s rhetorical strategies really work. (It’s sort of like taking a radio apart and putting it back together, but for poetry). Happy writing!
walking, bleary-eyed
tomorrow
i know well how to lose my soul a home :
wherever fire is thirsty
but water is stone
i never learn
and i’m not convinced anymore
that everybody
and everybody
can make it out there just with love
love, full of love
nobody, i say nobody
can make it out there just with love
poor people
with money to spend
girls, not women
children, not men
there is no doctor
for their useless souls
and nobody
yes, nobody
can make it out there just with love
love, full of love
nobody, i say nobody
can make it out there just with love
don’t try to get closer
i won’t tell you what i don’t know
the sky may turn gold
the wind may turn kind
the earth may turn the sea
and i won’t see you anymore
because nobody
and nobody
can make it out there just with love
love, full of love
nobody, i say nobody
can make it out there just with love
a.aime
(ORIGINAL POEM : ALONE BY MAYA ANGELOU)
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15624
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