Poetry Writing Workshop With Denise Blake

A Visit From Denise Blake

On Thursday the 23rd of January, we did a poetry workshop

with Denise Blake who helped us compose poems. 

In the afternoon, she wanted us to study the different shapes and figures of popcorn.

She gave us a handful each.  We started to look at some of them.

When you examined them from a different angle,
they morphed into something else. 

We saw many random peculiar figures
such as a chef, an octopus, a cat and much more.

Denise said that this was to open our imagination so we can be creative

when we write our poems. 

I found the popcorn exercise different and great fun.  

Soon after she read out a poem called “My City”. 

The idea of the poem was to construct a place that you would want to live in. 

She told us that we would have to do the same thing but

instead we would have to do that with a beehive. 

We could do it from the bee’s perspective or we could design it for the bees.

In my opinion I found the writing exercise enjoyable. 

Soon after we drafted, we started another poem.

It was called “The Bees Poem”.

We had to write from the perspective of a bee.

It could be a drone bee, a queen bee or even

just a small little honeybee.

Our poems were then proudly displayed at school.

I would rate this workshop a 5/5 because it was different and I really enjoyed it.