Poem Exercises
 
Exercise 1:
 
Here it was the worn-down nets on dark-green courts with dead brown and yellow leaves forming piles.
 
 
Exercise 2:
 
Clouds feel like sleeping on cotton candy.
 
Clouds feel like sleeping on a Tempur-Pedic mattress after a warm shower.
 
 
Exercise 3:
 
naked
exposed
open
vacant
barren
bare
blank
incomplete
homework
 
 
Exercise 4:
 
Dreams are nocturnal puffs of imagination.
 
Stars are tiny dream factories.
 
 
Exercise 5:
 
I'm as lazy as an OBESE cat
napping on the couch
after devouring a bowl of Fancy Feast.
 
 
Exercise 6:
 
I look at love, and all I see is blindness.
 
I look at McDonald's, and all I see are heart attacks.
 
I look at cigarettes, and all I see are funerals.
 
 
Exercise 7:
 
This hobo was a C. E. O. once, and money making.
 
 
Exercise 8:
 
dreams future
 
 
 
stars marshmallows
 
 
 
clouds cancellation
 

  

stars dreams
  
 
 

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