Poetry Friday: Freedom (and mood)
Today's post is part of Poetry Friday hosted by Keri at Keri Recommends . Stop by today's host blog for more poetry links. As part of yesterday's #teacherswrite events, guest author, Jenny Meyerhoff, talked about mood. The quick write exercise was to see a room through the eyes of a character feeling a particular way. I am discovering that, though I am very much a character reader, I am not much of a character writer. She reminded us, " When the writer isn’t deliberate about mood, the reader is often left emotionally cold." Jenny's comments about mood did apply to some of writing I dabble in here and there. I really wondered about mood in poetry. It seems like an important piece. One I rarely think intentionally about; so I decided to try it out a bit in two poems about freedom (yes, a little cliche since yesterday was the fourth). Of course, I didn't really accomplish mood so more practice is ahead. It seems I did manage t...