DDCPoetry

  Composing Poems at the Beach Wait.   Alan, you expanded the title  on the chalkboard/whiteboard/ projection of words/through emails. What do we think about this title? Me, silent, it was easier to count seconds than meter.  Alan you counted syllables with your fingertips. Not ten. Trochee-ish.   Hmmm… You advise, the class give feedback.  I write/type  Trochee - ish in the margins of my work. We  then you go on a five-minute rant on the history  of the trochee and how the title talks to this poet and  this poem that Alan knew from this conference.   Hmmmmm…. I now have four minutes left in my workshop. So back to the title .  Let’s think of the verb Composing, is this a strong verb?   Hai, raises his hand, “I’m not a poet, but I’d want to know how you, I mean the speaker  composes poems.”  We start listing off verbs;  writing, dancing, singing.  I don’t write/type  those options. Yeah ...