Poem: I want it to be different
I want it to be different
but I won't do
what is needed
to change
and make it
better than this.
I just want it
to get better
without the effort,
without losing
anything much.
Alas, that is not
how it works.
A Writer's Notebook, Two-Thousand-Four-Hundred-And-Sixty-Eight
I've been thinking a lot about the exercises I want to present in my workshop and I have a pretty good idea for most of what I am planning to do, but I would like to add one more example to the syllabus. The general concept is to share different approaches, with focus on different aspects of poetry, and in order to do a more complete job of that, I feel like it would be important to add something that is more about the musicality of poetry. The issue is that I want it to be something that is approachable and not overly technical, but still more than just rhyming or consonance. As well, I am aware that I want to make this reasonable as a group exercise. I trust myself that I will come up with something, as I do often play in that space when I am writing, and I have some techniques and exercises in that direction, it is just figuring out the way to shape it into something with more concrete instructions.
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