The Poetry Stash: 3December2024

My Animal, My Age by Osip Mandelstam

Today’s poem, “My Animal, My Age” by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Christian Wiman, is from the collection Stolen Air. The book is available for purchase here.

My Animal, My Age by Osip Mandelstam

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “Blood the builder…”
2.	Begin with “in a land called Gone…”
3.	Draft a poem in which images from nature provide specificity for an abstract term.
4.	Listen to a poem recited in a foreign language. Translate it into English based on the sounds of the words rather than their meanings.

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

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