Poetry Exercises

Poetry Exercises
Saying Yes to the World
by rosemerryt@gmail.com March 16, 2020
Writing a poem can be great medicine. Perhaps you’d like to try a simple format–a list poem. Yes…
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Poetry Exercises
Walking in Two Worlds at Once
by KORTArides2018@ September 18, 2019
A playshop that leaps between details and dreams Something to think about: Part of the magic of the poem…
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Poetry Exercises
Writing Play: Your Place in the Family of Things
by KORTArides2018@ September 18, 2019
Read: Wild Geese Wild Geese –Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to…
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Poetry Exercises
My Lips Got Lost
by KORTArides2018@ September 18, 2019
Writing Play: My Lips Got Lost Read: My Lips Got Lost on the Way to the Kiss My Lips…
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Poetry Exercises
Beyond Answers
by KORTArides2018@ September 18, 2019
Think of a place in your life where you are feeling stuck. On the top of a page, write…
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Poetry Exercises
On the Last Day
by KORTArides2018@ September 18, 2019
What would it be like on the last day of the world? I have not spent a lot of…
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Poetry Exercises
Sestina
by KORTArides2018@ October 14, 2018
A bit of a challenge: six unrhymed stanzas of six lines each. The words at the ends of the…
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Poetry Exercises
Pantoum
by KORTArides2018@ October 14, 2018
The pantoum is a poetic form from Malaysia, beginning centuries ago as an oral folk form of indefinite length.…
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Poetry Exercises
Making it Beautiful
by KORTArides2018@ October 14, 2018
If you look around, there are plenty of ugly things … but can you use words to make them…
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Poetry Exercises
Looking Into the Crystal Ball
by KORTArides2018@ October 14, 2018
In “Anticipation: One View,” Candice Stover paints a picture in great detail of what/who she might like to be…
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Wow, what a great response to both your reading and workshop.

Almost with tears in their eyes. Really. I have to tell you what was most mentioned as your fans applauded you; your family life, your reactions and theirs; it felt and sounded so real and most all of us have children so we all could relate. Unforgettable, you are.

Kathy Berg

Cortez Public Library, Poetry Corner Presents

Rosemerry, thank you.

For the first time in a long time I was moved to be creative and to use writing as a tool for healing. I could feel my stagnation begin to melt away in the Light that was presented today. I’ve been freeing up some space lately and asking that it be filled with people and things that inspire me to be the best version of myself and that is exactly what happened today.

Jackie

workshop participant

Revel in your own creativity.

To participate in one of Rosemerry’s poetry playshops, or to listen to one of her beautiful presentations, is an invitation to revel in your own creativity. She welcomes her audience into a landscape of words with a generous and irrepressible spirit, and speaks with a boundless compassion. Her love of poetry reaches out and connects with her listeners, opening a space with her audience that invites them to consider themselves, and their art, and their world, in new ways. To hear Rosemerry share her poetry is a felt gift. Her listeners cannot escape being touched.

Melissa Stacey

co-founder and organizer, Writers and Scribblers Literary Retreat

I think you have shifted the consciousness of my entire client base.

For this, and many other things, I thank you. You are perhaps the most professional person I’ve ever worked with. I’m amazed.

Craig Soren Nielson

Rural Community Assistance Corporation

Insightful, energizing, and entertaining.

Rosemerry, thank you so much for your inspirational program. The members of the American Business Women’s Association in Montrose left with fresh ideas on improving their work-a-day world and smiles on their faces.

Mavis Bennett

President, American Business Women’s Association, Black Canyon Charter Chapter

Through poetry, humor & song, Rosemerry brings the room to life.

Her highly interactive approach gives each child the opportunity to become a participant in a beautiful, creative experiment. With the support of Rosemerry, children are allowed to shine, to sing, to be silly – to be themselves, and everyone in the room leaves with the knowledge that living in this space of openness is always a possibility.

Erika Gordon

Coordinator for enrichment programming, Ridgway Elementary School

An extraordinary teacher and gifted poet.

Rosemerry’s talents have helped me achieve my dream of more publication. But what is most important to me is that I have learned to write with more confidence and understand more about how to craft deeper poems about deeper subjects. I have experienced healing, safety, trust, and fun in working with Rosemerry. When I bring a poem to her, I know she will continue to find ways to help me expand my creative potential. She never runs out of great ideas.

Phyllis Klein

An amazing talent to open up people’s creative minds.

There is some kind of magic in your smile, your encouraging energy, and amazing talent to open up people’s creative minds. You have facilitated a bit of a renaissance in our building. I have felt warm, enthusiastic vibes from even some of our more reserved teachers today. Of course, the students have it now and are exuding the joy of words big time.

Vicki Phelps

4th and 6th grade science teacher, Naturita Elementary School

Rosemerry touched their hearts.

Our students and staff benefited so much from Rosemerry’s visit. In just one afternoon of writing with her, people were surprised at how much they learned about their writing and their own process. She created a safe place where people were willing to risk. And the performance: Wow. I’ll never think of a sonnet the same again. Rosemerry has a way of grabbing the audience and delivering poetry in a way that makes it feel urgent and fun. As one woman said, ‘In my work, I just touch the surface of people. Rosemerry touches their hearts.’

Ruth Hackford-Peer

Associate Director of Student Life, Adams State College

A Better Place

The world is a better place because of Trommer’s poems.

Colorado Central Magazine

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