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Cliches and the use of them

Submitted by China Blue on Thu, 2011-05-19 20:17

Status:

Concluded

Program description/goal:

Description:A discussion of what cliches are
each participant will provide at least three cliches
we will then take the total of these and write a poem using only the cliches
we will then discuss the poems that were submitted

After which we will take those poems
and each of the participants will re write each cliche in the form of a poem
using their re write of same

A choice of one of three titles can be used
BUT only these three titles

Love On The Wing

The End Of Day

Mary's Dilema

we will then view each re write
and post them into stream

finally we will critiqe the poems in the comment section of stream

Leader: China Blue
Moderator(s): TBA

Objectives:To break the habit of using cliches in our poems

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter:

Length:

14 days

Number of participants (limit):

10 people

Skill level:

Olympic Pool

Comments

vexations10

Mon, 2011-05-23 11:12

Confused (I finally found the pool) Didn’t know about these.

I thought, as a general rule, the idea was to avoid the use of cliches in poetry. Is “as a general rule” a cliche? See how easily they sneak into use?

vexations

magics02

Mon, 2011-05-23 13:17

I am swimming

Towards cliches in June with you on this workshop. Will look forward to it.
Thank you for all you do here again Chyrs. I appreciate you and no more brownie buttons:)

Spirits of love
Mona

Race_9togo

Mon, 2011-05-23 17:10