Friday, April 2, 2021

30/30: Shovel Poem #2

This headline is from a feature by one of the New York Times's critics about five Instagram feeds she follows. They are comics ones, because they bring together images and words.

 

Warning

Mother Nature getting impatient with the

Slow awareness of humans to the mysterious

Workings of climate change, the alchemy

Of atoms, of molecules, of cells, of viruses, of

Organic and inorganic matter, visible in images

Of matter, yet invisible to our souls, and

Hardly able to exist in our words.

----------------------------------------------------------

Here is how I am using the Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section. 

  • Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.
  • Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.
  • Keep the end words in order.
  • Describe the story that the headline is for.
  • The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.

1 comment: