Friday, November 4, 2011

Friday's Poem #6

I failed to post last Friday's poem, for which I apologize. It slipped my mind completely and when I realised it, it was already too late.
Today, I'm posting a really unconventional poem as it uses only six different words. For you, students of English as a foreign language, it is probably the easiest to understand, or, maybe not?



SIX WORDS by Lloyd Schwartz

yes 
no
maybe
sometimes
always
never

Never?
Yes.
Always?
No.
Sometimes?
Maybe—

maybe 
never
sometimes.
Yes—
no
always:

always
maybe.
No—
never
yes.
Sometimes,

sometimes
(always)
yes.
Maybe
never . . .
No, 

no—
sometimes.
Never.
Always?
Maybe.
Yes—

yes no
maybe sometimes
always never.
 
And now a video of the poet himself reading Six Words:
 


And to continue with the six words topic, a recommendation, the site www.sixwordmemoirs.com

Taking a cue from novelist Ernest Hemingway, who, according to literary legend, was once challenged to write a short story in only six words, Smith Magazine set out to do the same. They founded a project where everyone could write their life story in six words.The idea became so popular that they even printed a few of those stories in a series of books. The Six-Word Memoir format has also been used as a writing exercise for teachers  and even six-word videos have been posted to Youtube.

By the way, Hemingway's six-word story read: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Do you think you can write your six-word story? if you do, please share it with us, write a comment!

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