The Word Cloud

Oh heck, what I know about poetry can be written on the back of a bus ticket!   First, off, we're to choose a poem we like.  Oh great, for me my experience is 'If' by Rudyard Kipling (I like it, but it's a bit of a cliche) and 'The thought fox' by Ted Hughes (CSE English, and I can't remember much about it, though I liked it).  Right, better look at the course books.  Trawl through the Poems on the Underground book, some candidates there, plus a few that I half remembered from years back.  Good.  Then I flick through Staying Alive (ed Astley) and find IT.  It is Where we are (after Bede) by S Dobyns.  Fits me to a tee as it's sort of historical (re. Bede) and most of all, I understand the ruddy thing.

But there's more to do yet!  Got to find an object that means alot to me.  That'll be my teddy bear, which is old having been with me since I was one.  We have to take a photo of our object, so Ted makes his (semi) public debut.  And I have to write a poem about him - think I'll call it Ode to a Teddy Bear. 

After that, we have to write about an object from memory.  Got to think a bit more about that one yet.

This is all online, so we have to upload our exercises onto the VLE.  Some people are obviously used to it, and others are getting to grips with it all.  There's a Virtual Cafe where we can all hang out - some of us are more online gregarious than others.

I'm enjoying it so far, as I'm getting to look at stuff which I haven't done before.  There's more to come, as plays are on the horizon as well.  A couple of people have expressed some trepidation about this, but we're all there to give it a go.