This poetry writing prompt submitted by Julie Standig:
This prompt is a favorite and is often used to show students that we are all poets if I train our minds to think like one. I became aware of it during a zoom workshop when I was blown away by someone’s poem. And then searched the format on the internet with the end result that the poem I created was the poem used to end my recent poetry collection and one of my personal favorite poems.
This poem template is inspired by George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From” poem.
Where I’m From
I am from _____________________________________________________________________________ (a specific item from your childhood home)
from _________________________________________________________________________________ (two products or objects from your past)
I am from _____________________________________________________________________________ (a phrase describing your childhood home)
and __________________________________________________________________________________ (more description of your childhood home)
I am from _____________________________________________________________________________ (a plant, tree or natural item from your past)
whose ________________________________________________________________________________ (personify that natural item)
I am from _____________________________________________________________________________ (two objects from your past)
from _______________________________________and _______________________________________ (a family name) (another family name)
I am from _____________________________________and _____________________________________ (a family trait or tendency) (another family trait or tendency)
and from ______________________________________________________________________________ (another family trait, habit or tendency)
from __________________________________________________________________________________ (another family trait, habit or tendency)
I am from _____________________________________________________________________________ (a religious phrase or memory)
I am from _____________________________________and _____________________________________ (an ancestor) (another ancestor)
from __________________________________________________________________________________ (two foods from your family history)
from __________________________________________________________________________________ (a specific event in the life of an ancestor)
and from _______________________________________________________________________________ (another detail from the life of an ancestor)
_______________________________________________________________________________________ (a memory or object you had as a child)
I am from those moments _________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________ (conclude by finishing this thought or by repeating a line or idea from earlier in the poem)
If you write a poem from this prompt, post it as a comment underneath the prompt in the Poetry Super Highway Facebook Group.
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