I thought I'd post the exercise here, too, in case it would be more widely useful.
Justice Poem Prompts
Fill in
the blanks, make new blanks, and see what happens.
What does
justice look like?
--The
elders say, “Our children need ___________________________.”
--The
prophet calls upon the legislator and says, “Do
_________________________.”
--The
flocks say, “Give us ___________________________________.”
--The
angel Gabriel gives us these instructions:
“_____________________________.”
A
different approach; fill in these blanks and then in the next section, fill in
those blanks:
Detail of
shift from one season to another ________________________________
Type of
noise ________________________________________
Element of
nature
_____________________________________________
Type of
emotion _________________________________________________
Favorite
flower __________________________________________________
Something
very tiny
________________________________________________
Floor or
wall covering
______________________________________________
Something nourishing
________________________________________________
Favorite
fruit __________________________________________________________
Element of
self-care
______________________________________________
Something
that oozes _____________________________________________
Favorite
treat
________________________________________________________
Something
that turns _______________________________________________
Something
that grinds
___________________________________________________
Now let’s
move to the next section and see what happens:
--A
commitment to justice helps us offer __________________________________.
--We yearn
for the day when justice covers the earth like ______________________________.
--We are
crushed into bits smaller than _____________________ by injustice.
--Truth
rolls down through the valley like ________________________________________.
--When I
work for justice, it’s as if ________________________________________________.
--I first
felt the move to justice as __________________________________ ripening.
--Evildoers
cover their rotten foundations with _____________________________.
--We burn
with __________________________________for truth and justice.
--Injustice
grinds us like a giant ____________________________________________.
--The____________________________
of justice turns slowly, but the turning does occur.
--The
___________________________of justice has found fertile soil in my heart.
--_________________________grows
in the garden of justice.
One last
question which may prompt poems:
Is the
pomegranate of justice different than the pineapple of justice?
2 comments:
Where's the poem?
looking forward to doing this exercise and creating a poem from it...
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