Monday, January 14, 2013

Poetry Prompt: Why Play a Sport?


Based on "Pumping Iron" by Diane Ackerman, come up with the reasons why you play a certain sport. Start with the reasons others might play, but you don't. Then talk about why you do. Try to use descriptive words, and follow the form of Ackerman's poem.

"Pumping Iron" 
by Diane Ackerman


She doesn't want
the bunchy look
of male lifters:
torso an unyielding love-knot,
arms hard at mid-boil.
Doesn't want
the dancing bicepses
of pros.
Just to run her flesh
up the flagpole
of her body,
to pull her roaming flab
into tighter cascades,
machete a waist
through the jungle
of her hips,
a trim waist
two hands might grip
as a bouquet.

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