The Poetry Stash: 26December2024

I Have Seen by Rosa Nevadovska

Today’s poem, “I Have Seen” by Rosa Nevadovska, translated from the Yiddish by Merle Bachman, is from the collection, Lider Mayne (Yiddish Book Center). The book is available for a free download here.

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “I Have Seen…”
2.	Begin with “gesture of silence…”
3.	Draft a poem that explores “astonishment”.
4.	Draft a poem that describes the verge between two events, landscapes or objects. For example, dawn, sunset, where the forest meets a meadow, where the highway enters a city, a wrist, a neck, etc.

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

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