The first meeting went well. Hopefully this blog will be useful to keep things we discuss, such as the writing prompt for this week, organized and available.
For the writing prompt, we discussed the Stanley Milgram experiment (because we have a couple psychologists) and it's impacts and relevance to us as people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Here's a synopsis on everything you would like to know on the experiment.
Here's the prompt:
"based on the above experiment, use the words 'school,' 'obedience,' and 'pontification' (any tense is acceptable) to make a poem from your own perspective about an issue relevant in your life"
Hope you all have a good week and I look forward to seeing your creations.
Here is my attempt:
ReplyDeleteDuring this morning's cereal
my heart
reached out and caught a star
floating in charmed milk.
So I bent the light and threw it
like a horseshoe
towards a clover
hoping for luck.
These mornings before school
my mind wanders and imaginates.
I imaginate a world where
schools teach
tolerance
instead of just
knowlerance.
Where they teach
meanings
instead of
wordings.
Openness
instead of
obedience.
In place of
emptiness
I would prefer
imagination.
We seem to
know
but not
believe
that
it's the hearts bestowed to those below us
that
keep us beating death and undying.
We want to
know
but not
create
our world,
all of which is child's play.
I find putrid pontification
in places where academia's aims
are far-too-far
narrower than our
heart's corridors.
But we continue to
obediate
instead of
imaginate.
As the balloon
of my imagination settled back
to the brown grains of reality
I heard a voice
"Silly people,
dreams are for everyone"