27 April 2016

Record of meeting 27 April 2016


Good bye war and conflict and hello to poetry for the month of May 2016
The writers

Helene, Terry, Roslyn, Di, Juan,

The words of the day

Ersatz – synthetic

Chimera – fabled monster
Chimera

Amuck – rush about in frenzy

Bolt – rush away without control

Innocent – not guilty of a crime or offence

Reading stories from words of the day

The small group of elite writers bolted in to create the following synthetic masterpieces - Roslyn - The children, Terry – many meanings, Helene – blood stained monster, Diane – The bull in the rodeo and Juan – John was a POW.

Reading of homework

Four writers read their sometimes emotional homework as follows - Roslyn – My father, Terry – Letter from Private Jones, Helene – One beautiful Anzac Day and Juan - What is ANZAC day?

Exercise


The elite group whiled away the afternoon with discussion covering many and varied topics.

Homework

  1. Write an Acrostic poem using a favourite word or the Alphabet  
     or
  2. Write any type of poem