#WaterPoemProject: Day 16, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes
It’s Day 16 of our #WaterPoemProject — 30 days of water-themed poetry prompts from your favorite children’s authors.If you’re looking for National Poetry Month writing prompts, we’ve got you covered. Start with Day 1 and you’ll have poetry prompts from now through the end of April.New to this project? Please read the Introduction and FAQ. Or you can watch this video of me describing how to participate. It’s on the YouTube channel Authors Everywhere.It's wonderful to have Michelle Heidenrich Barnes here with a writing challenge for us today.Michelle's poetry prompt is: Water Wordplay
When Laura asked me for a poetry prompt about water, I immediately thought of a water-themed workshop I presented back in 2016. It was adapted from Nikki Grimes’s exercise to write a free verse poem using wordplay, which you can find HERE.Think about the word WATER. Close your eyes and picture what it means to you. Consider your memories and all of your senses—how water looks, sounds, feels, smells, and tastes.Now write a poem that begins, “Water is a __________ word.” In the next few lines, help us to understand your experience of water. Play with poetic devices like alliteration and onomatopoeia, or even how the poem is arranged on the page!Here are some excerpts from poems my students wrote a few years ago:
***You've got this, wordsmiths! Draft a poem that begins with "Water is a ___ word" by the end of the day tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7, 2020.If you’re doing the #WaterPoemProject with a group, be sure to share or post your rough draft, read other people’s poems, and cheer for their efforts. Or leave your poem here, in the comments.
Michelle Heidenrich Barnes has been sharing poetry at Today’s Little Ditty since 2013. Her poetry has also appeared in magazines, greeting cards, on the streets of Washington DC, and in anthologies such as I Am Someone Else, The Poetry of US, One Minute till Bedtime, and Here We Go: A Poetry Friday Power Book. http://www.michellehbarnes.com/***#WaterPoemProject Series Posts:Project IntroductionFAQPrompt 1: Irene Latham, The Language of WaterPrompt 2: Elizabeth Steinglass, What Would a Raindrop Say?Prompt 3: Linda Mitchell, Found HaikuPrompt 4: Shari Green, Fogbow FibonacciPrompt 5: Margaret Simon, The Taste of WaterPrompt 6: Heather Meloche, The Shape of a WavePrompt 7: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, A Water MemoryPrompt 8: Laura Shovan, Rainy Day OppositesPrompt 9: Kathryn Apel, Silly SolagePrompt 10: Buffy Silverman, A Watery HomePrompt 11: Kara Laughlin, Frozen FogPrompt 12: Debbie Levy, Jump into a LimerickPrompt 13: Joy McCullough, What Are Water Bears?Prompt 14: Linda Baie, Frozen Water SkinnyPrompt 15: Chris Baron, The Hidden World of WaterPrompt 16: Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Water WordplayPrompt 17: Susan Tan, The Sound of WaterPrompt 18: Mike Grosso, Waterplay!Prompt 19: R. L. Toalson, Wishing WellPrompt 20: Margarita Engle, Ode to the ShorePrompt 21: Faye McCray, Poem in a BubblePrompt 22: Meg Eden, Surprising ConnectionsPlease support the #WaterPoemProject authors by buying their books from your favorite independent bookstore.Please support the #WaterPoemProject authors by buying their books from your favorite independent bookstore.