SIX-ROOM-POEMFrom the book

Awakening the Heart

By Georgia Heard

In the first room …

Think of something that you’ve seen outside that is

Amazing

Beautiful

Interesting

Or that has just been staying in your mind

Now close your eyes …

Try and see it as clearly as a photograph

Notice all the details about it And describe it as accurately as you

can Don’t think of writing a poem Just try to describe it and write your

description in the first box

In the second room …

Look at the same image as in the first room

BUT … just focus on the quality of light

For example: Is the sun bright? Or is it a dull flat day?

Are there any shadows?

If it’s unclear what the light is like you might have to use some poetic license and make it up

You can also describe colors Or if your image is, for example,

the stars, describe their light –

shiny, sparkling, red, blue

In the third room …

Picture the same image and focus only on the sounds:

Are there any voices? Rustling of leaves?

Sound of rain?

If it’s silent – what kind of silence?

Empty? Lonely? Peaceful?

In room number four …

Write down any questions you have about the image

Anything you want to know more about?

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Or wonder about …?

In the fifth room

Write down any feelings you have about this same image

Finally, in room number six …

Look over the five rooms and select one word, or a few words, a phrase, a line, or a sentence that feels important and

repeat it three times.

Now create a poem …

Read over what you wrote in the six rooms, and create a poem.

You can re-arrange the rooms in any order,

eliminate rooms, words, or sentences.

Just try and create a poem.