How to Write a Poem Using Poetry Starters - Markings 132
Poetry Starters
either as a title, first line or idea
I had not thought that death . . .
Gradually, from a behind a curtain of dream . . .
Under the grey fog of a winter dawn . . .
From the gum trees, loved-crazed cicadas . . .
Otherwise we might have had a season . . .
All day our little street has lain . . .
The convict arrow of gull’s feet . . .
He knew the boat, knew it better than he did himself . . .
She did not keep our time, and as the empty hour reached its sum . . .
The road through the noon-time forest began . . .
High and lifted up . . .
Baked black and thin . . .
Beyond her best and wildest fantasies . . .
Remaking the darkness . . .
This long train reinvents . . .
Emergency sirens in West Terrace . . .
Are you ever coming back . . .
Soft pads upon the sky . . .
Between the two . . .
They are not here . . .
©Jeff Guess 2019
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