The Poetry Stash: 19July2024

Magic Carpet by Shel Silverstein

Today’s poem is “Magic Carpet” by Shel Silverstein from the collection A Light in the Attic. The book is available for purchase here.

Magic Carpet by Shel Silverstein

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “You have a magic…”
2.	Begin with “you’ve never been…”
3.	Draft a poem that has a playful, simple rhyme scheme.
4.	Draft a poem written from the second person perspective and ends with a question. To read more about second person point of view, click here.

5. Photo by Sanketh Rao via pexels.com. Use the image as a writing prompt.

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