Record of meeting 4 May 2016

May is poetry month

The writers attending

Helene, Wendy, Juan, Elizabeth, Lynn, Elizabeth, Di and welcome to Marg

The words of the day

Hirsute – hairy 

Clock – timepiece

Spectrum – range, band

Perchance – by accident

Icon – sacred picture, etc

Flimflam – idle nonsense

Obdurate – stubborn, unyielding

Stories from words of the day

We took the words of the day and 

produced some hirsute flimflam iconic stories and poems - 

Harry the biker, Aurora borealis, 

The sneer, The janitor, Living in fear, 

Can you see this guy and The old man.

Reading of homework

Four writers read out homework as follows - Air an acrostic poem from Helene, Speed bump ahead from Wendy, Flying high & The orgy two poems from Juan and Collecting the eggs from Elizabeth.

Exercise - Superstition

We used the word Superstition to create an acrostic poem with three word sentences. The writers created a range of excellent poems on the topics; Send in witches – Helene, So much stress – Diane, Afraid of the dark – Elizabeth, Sexy hairy person, - Marg, So my mum – Lynn, Superstition is good – Juan and Silly me mum - Wendy.

Exercise - Terrible two

The writers created a two year old character and wrote about her thoughts and ideas.

Helene – the PMs grand daughter; Wendy – My brother Naughty boy; Juan – Its my own bum; Lynn – I’m not happy; Marg – I am brown; Elizabeth – One day I will be big and Diane – I take no notice.

Exercise 3 - Initials

We took the initials of our names to write a poem or story either about ourselves or another topic.

Helene – Live another life, Diane – Elegant Elli, Elizabeth – Sue, Marg – flying high, Lynn – Art and learning, Juan – Just the people I want to talk to and Feeling great & Wendy – Why aren’t I six feet tall?

Homework

Write a bush poem