Skeleton Poem
_____________carpet________________________
_________________leaves_________________road,
_______figures___________joy flutter____________
_____________thrill of silence__________________
________hope_______________________________
_____brightness of ___________morning___________
__________noon___________over dusk____________
____________tall tree shadows____________________
______________broken waves touch the shore________
_________open_____________window_____________
_________________the troubled seagulls in the dawn
__________________________fall_______________ .
________________________________sun in my eyes.
Careful words____________________verse_________
___________________line and ______________of clay.
_______open conversations of night ______________ .
The rhyme of the published poem_________________
My pen and page.
Your task is simply to fill in the blanks below, and turn the poem skeleton into a whole,
coherent poem. Rewrite the poem of course by typing it and printing it out to turn in. Give it
a title, label it as "Skeleton Poem" somewhere inconspicuous. Don't forget to write your
name.