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Write a Golden Shovel
The golden shovel poetic form created by Terrance Hayes and inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks: Here are the rules for the Golden Shovel: - Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire. - Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem. - Keep the end words in order. - Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines). - The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/17315 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/244278 Source: https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/golden-shovel-poetic-form I will also be posting my own as a referance! Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with!
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after Taylor Swift, by TheSword
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Champagne Problems a golden shovel after Taylor Swift

She

is the sand slipping through your fingertips, and she never would’ve

stayed. She’s not a trinket to keep in your pocket, she’s un-made

potential. In her rock, you’ll carve “disappointment” and it’s such

a shame. You’ll call her the one that got a

-way. Yet, you know all too well that the sunset is loveli-

est when it’s fleeting. Dress her in white, she’ll never be a bride;

she’ll never be what

you wanted her to be, a

diamond around your neck, a trophy for your pedestal, and it’s such a shame -

she’s everything you thought you wanted, but actually, she’s

not. You can’t hold her hand when it’s stuck

planted in the soil, blooming in-

to a tree; you’ll never move her.

Keep her in your head,

it’s all you’ll ever get to keep of her. When they

ask you what went wrong, tell them she never said.