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Write a Golden Shovel
The golden shovel poetic form created by Terrance Hayes and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks: Here are the rules for the Golden Shovel: - Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire. - Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem. - Keep the end words in order. - Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines). - The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/17315 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/244278 Source: https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/golden-shovel-poetic-form I will also be posting my own as a referance! Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with!
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Break a Leg

A bunch of them are talking over there.

I nod and smile and follow the cues, but we all know how this goes.

I never learned how to be someone.

Turns out we have a lot in common, but I can’t shake the feeling I don’t belong here.

The urge to connect comes and then goes.

These situations never amount to more than nothing.

(There - Bo Burnham)