Versaying
New:
Write a new verse for your favourite poem or song.
Titles:
Arrange the titles of your favourite songs into a poem.
Illustrate:
Think of a favourite quotation, lyric, or saying and find a way to illustrate it. Collage, drawings, still images from cartoons or films, etc.
Map:
Collect your favourite quotations together and make a connected mind map style visual out of them. Frame it or add it to your journal.
Cloud:
Turn your favourite quotations, sayings, or lyrics into a word cloud to glue into your journal or turn into a piece of wall art.
Poem:
Pick your favourite books, or ones that have impacted you the most, and create a poem out of their first lines.
Stitch:
Embroider some favourite words or quotations onto a t-shirt, tote, or something to frame.
Audio:
Create a sound poem sculpture that combines text, objects, and recorded sounds.
Puzzle:
Make a puzzle poem by cutting words into pieces and reassembling them randomly.
Prompt:
Pick a line from a poem or song you like and use it as the jumping off point for a poem of your own.
Swap:
Swap word lists with a friend and create something based on their given letter (a poem, drawing, story, etc.)
Talk:
Make up a poem out of the random pieces of conversation or other vocals you hear when you're out in a public place, on the bus, etc.
Erase:
Write something in pencil. When done, erase all words that start with your initials, or half the words, or every fourth word. What's left becomes a poem.
New:
Read a new (to you) poem today.
Out loud:
Create a poem based on the first thing you said out loud today.
Snippets:
Create a poem using only words cut out from a newspaper.
Walk:
Go for a walk and write a short poem inspired by something you see.
Alphabet:
Write a poem where each line starts with the next letter of the alphabet.
Autocomplete:
Create a surreal poem or narrative out of the choices of a Google autocomplete search. For example:
What colour is:
the sun
taupe
the sky
the CN Tower tonight