Tuesday 13 January 2015

The Sorrow of Love

The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves,
The full round moon and the star-laden sky,
And the loud song of the ever-singing leaves
Had hid away earth's old and weary cry.

And then you came with those red mournful lips,
And with you came the whole of the world's tears,
And all the sorrows of her labouring ships,
And all burden of her myriad years.

And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
The crumbling moon, the white stars in the sky,
And the loud chanting of the unquiet leaves,
Are shaken with earth's old and weary cry.

W.B. Yeats




Take one or more lines from the above poem and use them to write a poem of your own, or a piece of flash fiction.

Then select a few threads from your piece of work and write a short story. Write the story from one perspective and later write it from an alternative perspective.

Take ten words at random from the poem (or from your own work) and see if you can connect them together in another piece of creative writing.

Have fun and good luck! Heather

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