Red sky session 3
title: “Relay Poem Exercise”
layout: note
date: 29-07-2022
permalink: /relay-poems
tags: [WritingExercise]
last_modified_at: 2023-12-08 12:09
| to a Timer | timer]] of 5 minutes. Write a short poem, maybe from Prompts. Then take a word or image from that. Write another poem in 5 minutes. Then repeat again, with a word or image from the second poem. |
In this way you build up a linked sequence of poems very quickly, Writing From the Subconscious.
I stole this exercise from Inua Ellam’s sublime book The Actual, where each poem is linked to the previous one.