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Wikimedia Commons Featured Picture by Lilly_M

Another section to explore on Wikimedia Commons is the featured pictures. I found this fire-breather in the category "People."

Here's what I jotted in my writer's notebook throughout the day as I thought about this image:

bad breath
anger (teacher?)
dragon
transformation
(I like the almost-rhyme of dragon/transformation)
circus act
remember to breathe OUT!
what's the story abt the diamonds vs. frogs and toads out of one's mouth?
fairy tale? superpower?


And here's the beginning of a draft of a poem inspired by the fire-breather:


FAIRY TALE MIX-UP

Shouldn't the dragon
have gotten the fire?
The sword to the prince
and for me, the lyre?

I fear for the princess
'cause I've seen the witch
____________________
________________ switch.

DRAFT © Mary Lee Hahn, 2013


If you have a minute, go back to yesterday's post and check out the TWO poems Carol Wilcox wrote! Cathy Mere left a quickie in the comments that I moved up into the post, too.

If you make a fire-breather creation, let me know and I'll include it in today's post!

From Kevin at Kevin's Meandering Mind:

Breathing fire
as thoughts
as imagination runs amok
inside my mind
even as the outside calm exterior of my eyes
permeates what others think they know of me
while inside,
something else altogether begins to spark
unseen.

© Kevin Hodgson, 2013


From Linda at TeacherDance:

I'm sorry to have responded
so heatedly to your game.
I never meant to sear you
with my blast of words aflame.

© Linda Baie, 2013


From Carol at Carol's Corner:

"Rage"

The flame

that smolders

deep within

sparks

then blazes

Your words

red-hot irons

that singe

char

incinerate

my heart

And I wonder

Does 

the rage

that burns within

scorch your soul

like it does mine?

(c) Carol Wilcox, 2013


Katie (Archaeofrog Photography) wrote a book spine poem inspired by this image:

Knights of the kitchen table,
How to train your dragon:
Out of darkness ...
The fire within =
Holes
Out of the dust &
The City of Ember.
Absolutely Normal Chaos.
Dragons don't cook pizza.

(Check out the photo here) 

The theme of my 2013 National Poetry Month Project is 

"Common Inspiration--Uncommon Creations."

Each day in April, I will feature media from the Wikimedia Commons ("a database of 16,565,065 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute") along with bits and pieces of my brainstorming and both unfinished and finished poems.

I will be using the media to inspire my poetry, but I am going to invite my students to use my daily media picks to inspire any original creation: poems, stories, comics, music, videos, sculptures, drawings...anything!

You are invited to join the fun, too! Leave a link to your creation in the comments and I'll add it to that day's post. I'll add pictures of my students' work throughout the month as well.