Challenge
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!
Gingerbread man a golden shovel after Melanie Martinez
Everything
I did
was
for your sucess,
so
how could you throw me away so eaisly? You always did have a
sweet
tooth. So, i let you gouge yourself on cookies
until
you could barely stay awake. Was i just another cookie to
you?
Somthing to use, to chew on until I
tried
to stand my ground against you? I may have been just a sweet treat
to
you, but to me you were my eveything. I am a fool for your
fake love covered in powderd sugar and broken promises.
If the diabites were to
kill
me, I would have no complaints. Why? its quite simple actually,
because to
me
there is no life i can lead without you being in it.