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Tom Radzienda

The Poetry Generation provides activities and suggestions to encourage interest in reading poems and develop skill in creating poetry.

Poetry is a combination of visualization, observation, imagination and creative use of language. Visualization means awakening and stimulating the senses within your mind. Poetry requires extraordinary observations of ordinary things and fresh insights to inspire your senses. A strong imagination helps you break free from the limits of ordinary, routine thinking. Your imagination is a bottomless source of original ideas where poetry can grow.

The Poetry Generation provides guidance in the mechanics of poetry such as rhyme, meter and metaphor. These aspects of poetry are blended together with visualization experiments and observation activities to help you express your own unique ideas.

Poetry is much more than reading and writing. Poetry comes from the will to help others, the effort of sharing and being socially concerned. Poetry displays compassion for the world and its beings. Like the branches of a tree in the jungle, poetry reaches in many directions. Your poetry masterpiece, leaf by leaf, floats upon the wind and paints the colours of the universe. Each leaf is a tear of joy singing the universal song of poetry.

All of the Poetry Generation pages are presently at my Poet Tree website at the Bangkok Post.  Review Poet Tree columns at www.bangkokpost.com/education/site2003/ptsum.htm

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