POETRY
INDEX
About this book
About Windows Workshops
About the workshop games

SIMPLE STARTS
Amazing PushPoem Machine
Shoveha'penny
Springboard
Pete's Powerful Poetry Pipes
Fishing for Words
Tom Phillips Game
Maze
The Bomb
Presents
What's in the box?
The Great Escape
Expanding Words
Hear here!
Going Round in Circles
Open the door!
Anagrams and Acrostics
Shaping Up

BASIC CRAFT
Rhymeboard
Pocket Rocket Primary Rhymer
Rhyme Forms
Rhyme Forms2
Nursery Rhymes
Limericker
Aboard the Pentameter
Wet, Wet, Wet
Supersonnet
Cooking up a Pantoum
Time to Twist the tongue: Alliteration
What is it, like?: Metaphor
As...as: Simile
Comic Strip: Onomatopoeia


DIALOGUE
How Do you see yourself?
What do you think you're doing?
Where we're at
Who do you think you are?
Voices
City of Poems
Windows on the Mersey
Postcards
Pavement
Birds
World Game

INVENTIONS
Elementary poetry
Phantastic Phonetic Phactory
Boom
Yellow and Purple Prose
Dr. Squint's Colour Co-ordinator
Sensational poetry
A Sense of place

A poem is a fertile egg
Amazing Animals
Word spotter
Encounters
Pirates
Dinosaurs
The World Game-again
Horror
Circus of Calamities
Gardens
Windows in Space
Spells
The Art Game
New nursery rhymes
Other

NOTES
Notes for Playworkers
Notes for Teachers
Notes on being helpful

Simple starts : Going Round In Circles

Here's a game to spin you off into all sorts of strange ideas. This is how to play:

You use the wheel, starting anywhere you like, and move around it from one word to any word that touches it until you have gone all the way round.
As you move, or after you have drawn a path or made a list of chosen words, write each word on a seperate line in the form.

The word can be used anywhere in the line.
You don't have to use the word exactly as it's shown on the wheel: any normal variation is allowed - for example stood for stand or eyes for eye. You can also use specific words in place of general ones - for example rose instead of flower.

Add as many other words as you want, to connect, to make sense and develop an idea.
Of course you don't have to stop there, you can try different solutions, make the poem as long or wide as you like, perhaps deciding for yourself what might happen next or rewriting to improve your first ideas.

For further information on this sort of game click on any listed under
SIMPLE STARTS in the INDEX side bar.

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