Creative Writing Class
1st & 3rd Wednesdays of the Month
9:30 AM in Pumphrey Hall at:
First Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ)
326 S. Palmetto Ave.
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114
Creative Writing Class
meets next on Wednesday, September 7, 2011.
Creative Writing Class is a secular writing class, open to the public and free of charge (thank you, Miss Jane…). A donation is taken to help First Christian with the light bill for the use of Pumphrey Hall at the church. (Usually $1 a student.)
Student’s creative work is regularly posted here; scroll down. All creative writing is posted with permission. Some students have become professional writers (thanks again, Miss Jane!) including freelance work. For inquires, you may contact them or Miss Jane through the church office (ask for Rose Marie): 252-6648.
AN INVITATION TO JOIN US
You do not have to have professional training to be a part of our class.
If you want to learn how to write, or if you want to find a comfortable venue to express your thoughts on paper, and if you are willing to commit to two Wednesday mornings each month and time spent at home doing homework, the Creative Writing Class is where you should be on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon in Pumphrey Hall of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
at 326 South Palmetto Avenue in Daytona Beach, FL 32114.
Call Jane Harmon –386-258-6208—for answers to your questions about CWC.
(If she does not know the answer, she will make one up!
That’s the creative part!)
--J.H.
Poets are not just found in dusty, old books!
Our Creative Writing Class is full of poets who have responded to each type of poetry that has been taught.
Here they are!
…and every week or so we’ll add a few more….so don’t forget to stop back by…
Posted: May 7th, 2010:
POETS’ CHOICE
Anything goes! All of these are free verse except the poem titled “Merrill” – it is a list poem.
MAY 16, 1931
On the train, traveling north, through a day and night in May;
I ask my grandmother, again and again, to let me open her handbag.
There is a telegram, and I cannot remember the word – “killed”.
My grandfather sits opposite, remote in his grief.
My father – it was my father who was killed
But I cannot remember the word.
--Marsha LaHue
ANGELS AMONG US
Do you think some birds could be angels in disguise?
They are too beautiful as they bounce from limb to limb, wearing green and red feathers.
Don’t you hear the songs they sing?
They sound heavenly to me!
In the springtime of my life, I awoke to their melodies
Sung in harmony with mother’s humming in the kitchen.
In the summer of my life, I quietly watched those tiny angels
While sitting in the backyard, and they calmed my soul.
Now, in the fall of my life, I am grateful for their presence;
Thy give me Hope, and I believe they may be angels in disguise.
--Dorothy Kobylanski
MERRILL
Loving
Kind
Compassionate
Witty
Funny
Comfortable
Sensitive
Understanding
Thoughtful
Studious
Ambitious
Creative
Sixty
Years
Together.
Three
Years
Alone.
--Betty Hershberger
SIGNS OF SPRING
Red-breasted robins announce the spring
As they arrive singing familiar songs
That bid farewell to winter’s chill.
The season’s warm raindrops gently fall
On bright flower buds dotting the ground
Soon full petals will brighten the scene.
The warm winds and gentle breezes blow
While soft rays of sunshine lighten each day
And crown the verdant beauty of spring.
--Eleanor Leonard
Life
is like eating a Popcicle;
You
Got to stay one lick ahead of all the drips.
--Jane Harmon
Posted: April 30th, 2010:
CINQUAINS
Five non-rhyming lines in a pattern of 2-4-6-8-2 syllables:
There’s dust
On everything.
Yesterday there was dust,
And dust will be there tomorrow.
Why try?
--Betty Hershberger
Poems
Tell a story
Filled with joy or sadness
To be read and enjoyed by all.
Pleasure.
--Eleanor Leonard
Cinquain.
What does that mean?
A verse or rhyme perhaps?
No, none of these – just syllables.
Quite strange!
--Nancy Clark
Snow is
An unwelcome
Visitor to many,
But skaters, skiers, and children
Rejoice!
--Mary Jane Pearce
Teacher –
God must love her.
Phoenix of the classroom,
She rises about her troubles.
Teach us!
--Faye Council
Taxes –
Yearly labor.
Add, subtract, multiply,
Hard to prepare, painful to pay.
Finished!
--Betty Hershberger
Posted: April 23rd, 2010:
CLERIHEWS
Four rhyming lines about a real person whose name appears in the poems; may be non sensical or saterical:
Jimmy Carter is a charmer;
He used to be a peanut farmer.
Now in diplomacy he does not cease -
He cultivates the world towards Peace!
--Dorothy Kobylanski
History is in Mary Fear's hand.
She plays the role of an early land
Of a slave-not-person, Joshua Houston,
Who, in 1865, became a great statesman.
--Pat Kyer
Posted: April 14th, 2010:
SENRYU
Captures a thought or a bit of nonsense
or anthing in only three unrhymed
lines of 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern:
When a baby smiles
Is it tummy talk or does
She feel your loving?
--Faye Council
Morning is so cold;
Turn on heat, bundle in robe.
Coffee perking hot!
--Mary Jane Pearce
Vapor trails -- blue skies;
A plane leaves for Atlanta --
I want to go, too!
--Marsha LaHue
Posted: April 9th, 2010:
HAIKU
Captures a moment in nature in only three unrhymed
lines of 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern:
At the bird feeder
Titmice, cardinals, other
Eating new worm meal.
--Marsha LaHue
Odor wafts divine
Lilacs beautiful to view
Nature’s gift to me.
--Mary Jane Pearce
Sunrays through the trees
Shining bright on morning dew
Announces the day.
--Eleanor Leonard
Posted: April 2nd, 2010:
ACROSTIC POEMS
A beginning, middle or ending letter forms a word
that is the title or subject of each poem:
P oetry
O n my mind
E ventually will find a paper
M aybe even a computer screen
S ome way to be seen
--Eleanor Leonard
H ave you ever touched one?
O r ever ridden in the sun?
R iding is my passion;
S addling is also fun.
E ven being near them
S ends love as a special gem.
--Ellie Celeste
F lash is a feisty and funny dog.
L oves to play and eat snacks
A lways ready to visit his Gram
S o she will play fetch
H ow could she not love him?
--Betty Hershberger
wha T makes me come late to class?
Worried th A t I might not pass?
I hu R ry but it’s no use.
I fin D my efforts loose.
m Y results: late again!!!
--Dick Pumphrey
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