Thursday’s writing task

Each day this week, we’ll load up a fun poetry task for you to use in conjunction with the poetry competition prompts, which are designed to help you get inspiration for your entry.

Thursday’s task: Poetry Reconstruction

Instructions: 

Find a poem that you love. It would be a good idea to find a poem that speaks to one of the prompts. 

Break the lines apart and reform them in a new order. 

Add your own lines, change the meaning and see what new thing you can create. 

Here’s an example of a poem that has been broken apart already, but you could find your own. Places like Best New Zealand Poems, takahē magazine and Starling are really good places to find poems, especially by poets from Aotearoa.

Happy writing!

A deconstructed poem, thanks to Gina Coatsworth.