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Imaginary Changes


Some poems are about transformations in the real world. Others are about changes that occur in our imaginations. For the imagination poems, we turn inward.

Flowers bloom into butterflies.
Thinking grows into a plate of spaghetti.
Lost socks wiggle into worms.
I wiggle a string into a snake.
The snake is cut into worms.
The worms are fried into cereal.
The cereal is served to you
in the school cafeteria.

Many wonderful images and ideas come from our dreams -- both night dreams and daydreams. Take a minute to close your eyes and recall an image or two from a dream. See how one image changed or ended and another image took its place.

Walking down a long hall
stops into standing alone
in an empty room

The sun is squeezed
into the yellow yolk of an egg

White stones sail into the sky
and billow lightly into white clouds

Running away from a mean gang
Leaps into flying above the city
and out into the beautiful country

Think of the word imagination as being made up of the words "image" plus "nation." Then the imagination becomes a nation of images born in the mind.

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Fairy tales seem to come from that nation of images where any change is possible. Think of the prince who becomes a frog and who then is kissed back into a prince. Do you remember the pumpkin that becomes a coach?

Make a list of transformations that take place in fairy tales and other imaginative stories such as cartoons and fantasies. Type your list between the angle brackets.

List of Imaginary Changes from Fairy Tailes and Cartoons

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There is an interesting way to create imaginary transformations without actually imagining. Just look around the room until your eyes rest on something. Then write down what you see.

For example, my eyes might come to rest on the windows and the tree outside. If so, I could write the following:

The windows and trees outside

Now, in order to find out what the windows and trees outside transform into, I close my eyes. I slowly move my head, open my eyes, and observe what my eyes focus upon.

I use my imagination to see if the windows and trees can transform into the object I am looking at.

The windows and trees outside
become a file cabinet with books stacked on top
The stack of books bends into a castle and tower
about to crumble on the heads of nasty invaders.
All the people are living underground
in the filing cabinet.

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Use your imagination. Look out into the world and into your daydreams and night dreams. Find some imaginary transformations. Write a few imaginary transformations into a poem.

My Imaginary Transformation Poem

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Reread your poem to discover how you can add more interesting transformations. Are any of the images or ideas you used boring? If so, try writing them in a more interesting way.


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Write an evaluation of your poem. Copy lines from your poem. Put quotation marks around the lines. The quotes will show where the line or image from the poem begins and ends in your essay. Explain what you like and dislike about your poem.

My Essay about My Poem

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