Monday, January 14, 2013

Poetry Prompt: All About the Ball

Grab a ball and look at it. Make 6 comparisons, either similes (the ball is like a block of Swiss cheese) or metaphors (the ball is a bright moon). Remember, you can describe specific parts of the ball as well (the lines are like rivers, etc.) Use this poem from last J-Term as an example.

"The Basketball"
by Dustin Miller

Surface worn down like an old
miners hands.

Lines colored like coal; dark, tiny
valleys around the surface.

The name like the badge
on the worker’s shirts.

Scarred marks from play; scraped
by picks, hammers, dynamite.

But to fly through the air,
like a plane,

looking down at the goal,
instead of always looking up.

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