Exercise
Directions:
Step 1: Find music lyrics of your choice. Step 2: Black out words + phrases that you want + create new meaning for each line. Step 3: Write the words in a new poem while maintaining their stanzas and lines. Step 4: Add capitalization, line breaks, + punctuation to help your piece. Extension: Rearrange the words and stanzas from your last poem into any order of words or stanzas for a new poem. |
Example with Outkast's "13th Floor/Growing Old" from the group's sophomore album ATLiens (1996)
Example 2 with Outkast's "13th Floor/Growing Old" from the group's sophomore album ATLiens (1996) with an extension