The 13 word poem

photographs by D.R. Wagner

In this exercise each student created a list of 13 words then passed the list to the person next to them which they then used to create the poem. It was difficult to do because it was so easy to just create a list rather than make something happen to the words.

Lynn Park

Justice, cats, fire, lungs, eyes, shoes, tear, fright, raven, pool,  love, gem, clown, prostitute, lute

 The pursuit of justice begins with this unexpected catastrophe cats shout, "fire!" screaming out of their lungs eyes filled with hysteria steal raven's hidden shoes tears fright, despair, and sorrow overwhelm, depress and sweep the raven into pool it has lost its love gem of its heart clown points finger to prostitute playing with a lute, who had set the fire.   Lynn says:

 The entire poem in general doesn't really make sense, but I tried to
 give my best
 with the words that I have..

I don't agree that it doesn't make sense...D.R. Wagner

     
Salena Huang   
    
    
  
Scrambled Thoughts
  
 
  
Fruit filled, we
   
Become gathered pigs
  
In a ring styled circle,
  
We threw out the dust bunnies which were
  
Scattered in a shoebox full of ancient diary pages
  
In ink.
  
A field portrait is included:
  
A light house
  
By the sea
  
And twigs sprawled out chaotically,
  
A broken eraser rubs away this precious memory.
  
Underneath, we discover a unique jewel hidden deep inside
  
Cereal contaminated
   
And shaped like a spoon.
  
This buried hole.
  
  


Zeeniya Yahiya        
    
    
   A Sunny Afternoon




A    book to read
 Sandwich
A computer to keep her entertained, her macbook
A little, baby kitty cat to cuddle now
Don't bring the dog any closer, cat will run
She has the house to herself, home all alone
 Tree
A flower like a rose
A pencil to write her thoughts out
Red, rosy, juicy apple to munch on
Lying on the green, dewy, wet, smooth  grass
Look at a cloud
 Butterfly!
Whoa, dragonfly stay away from her yummy apple
Go fly in the sky, will join you in a while


Greg Tam

Shoelace
  
2.    Apple
  
3.    Pizza
  
4.    Nail polish
  
5.    Monkey
  
6.    Farted
  
7.    Pen
  
8.    Ink
  
9.    Airplane
  
10.  Clouds
  
11.  Sock
  
12.  Table
  
13.  Cookie
  
14.  Boy
  
15.  Rock
  
Today I found a shoelace tied around an
  
apple. 
  
Next to the pizza in my living
  
room was some nail polish spilled on the
  
table. A monkey licked it and
  
farted, 
  
I walked away and a pen
  
was there leaking ink of the floor. An
  
airplane
  
in the clouds flew by. My purple
  
sock was missing, I assume it was hiding
  
under a table. I found a
  
cookie
  
left behind by a boy. At
  
least there was no rock in my shoe.