#WaterPoemProject: Day 6, Heather Meloche
Welcome back to our month-long #WaterPoemProject. It’s Day 6. If you’re 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.Today, we have a creative prompt from YA author and poet Heather Meloche.Heather’s poetry prompt is: Write a Concrete or "Shape" Poem about Waves?
A concrete poem, also called a shape poem, is written in the shape of what it is describing or focusing on. Sometimes, these poems are mixed with a drawing of the poem’s subject, such as my poem below about snakes, which describes a true story about an event I had during summer camp (Eeek!). I drew the snake, and then filled it in with my poem in a creative way.
Now you try by using the image of a wave as your prompt. To help you, here is a picture of a wave that you can fill in, or you can draw your own or create the image with your words.
To inspire you, click on these two sound clips of waves crashing.Ocean Waves 1 from FreeSoundEffects.com.Ocean Waves 2 from FreeSoundEffects.com.Have fun with it!!***Your task is to draft a shape poem about waves before the end of the day tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, 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.
Heather Smith Meloche’s work has appeared in Spider and Young Adult Review Network (YARN). She has placed twice in the children’s/YA category of the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition and won first place for Hunger Mountain’s Katherine Paterson Prize in 2011 for a short story in verse. Penguin Putnam released her debut novel, Ripple, a contemporary young adult novel, in September 2016. She lives in Michigan with her husband, two boys, and a very energetic Jack Russell. http://www.heathersmithmeloche.comCheck out her handout Breaking into the Writing Market for Young Writers.***#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.