Our host today for the 8th day of VerseLove at http://www.ethicalela.com is, Linda, who lives in Virginia, where she teaches from a middle school library. Linda inspires us to write prose sentences in the form of poetry the way we would say it in verse. You can read her full prompt here. She gives us this example: “In English, we might say, ‘I feel lost in the chaos of life,” but in poetry we say, ‘The heart wanders through the storm, seeking sunlight in shadows.'”
She shares a process we can use: Take a sentence from English. Translate it via the phrase, in poetry we say…
My chosen phrase is Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
swells of earth in hillock
and knoll
hummocks and mounds
hills of ant and of mole
can ne’er be vast as the sky
nor the sea
to hold all the love
I feel for thee
nay, it shan’t hold me back
but shall let me pass
into thine own dear presence
where we shall be one ~ you and me
at long last
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