I’ve been reading Kyle Vaughn’s Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises, (available on Amazon, linked on title or here on NCTE), which inspired me to delve into another book study of poetry forms and responses. I’ll be making my way through the exercises and prompts between now and the end of the year.
Today’s exercise is a Just Because poem, using two images that are illogical in a cause-effect relationship until explained in a poem that begins with the word because.
Just Because because of your sock sorters we make time for more important things than sorting socks endlessly
Common Threads 