The Poetry Stash: 4October2024

The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Today’s selection is The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, read in Middle English (impression) by Morgan Freeman. To listen to the poem, click here.

Prompts:

1.	Begin with: bathe every vein…
2.	Begin with: small birds make...
3.	Draft a poem that is an introduction to a much longer poem.
4.	Write a draft that is a mis-translation of another poem by only using how the poem sounds.

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

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