Write an Instant Dear Poem
audience: someone you want to share with)
LINE 2 I would like to tell you
LINE 3 “something that is on my mind that I am uncomfortable saying
directly”
LINE 4 You tell me
LINE 5 “something that person has said”
LINE 6 You tell me
LINE 7 “something else that person has said”
LINE 8 You tell me
LINE 9 “something else that person has said”
LINE 10 I would like to tell you
LINE 11 “put your emotions into words; how that person makes you feel”
LINE 12 So during our next encounter
LINE 13
Describe the scene and
LINE 14 what really happens when you speak face to face
LINE 15 using the last five lines
LINE 16 of
LINE 17 the poem
Sample Poem:
Dear Prince of Powerpoint
for Shawn Fitzpatrick
Dear Prince of Powerpoint
I would like to tell you
powerpoint is stupid
You tell me
powerpoint is fun
You tell me
powerpoint is poetry
I would like to tell you
powerpoint makes me ill
So during our next encounter
when the glass doesn't break
and the words don't fly in
and the objects won't
spin and land
then it's really the end