The Adelaide Plains Chapter and Verse Writing Group is well under way now with two new members attending our most recent gathering.
We would like to welcome Marilyn Simpson and Kath Thornton,
both very talented local writers who shared some of their work with the group.
One of our discussions this week was around different types
of poetry including Sonnets, Villanelles and Ekphrastic poems.
The group will be undertaking an Ekphrastic challenge in the
coming weeks which we will report on later.
Our new members were
keen to undertake this week’s challenge set by the group facilitator, Carolyn
Cordon. This task is called ‘Digging in the Dictionary’. We were asked to
randomly choose a word from the dictionary and write a poem about it, or to
feature the word prominently in the poem. As I don’t have a dictionary and I couldn't find my thesaurus. I did the ‘Eenie, meenie, miney, mo’ on my
bookshelf and landed on an old Jeffrey Archer short story collection. The
random word I chose should make for a very interesting – and challenging poem.
We'll keep you posted!
We'll keep you posted!
