I've been thinking about using sensory images in my poetry. So, since we had poetry club today, I used some index cards and mined sensory images from this site: http://www.creative-writing-now.com/poem-starters.html to make four-five cards for each sense. Then I had my poets draw as many cards as they wanted, read the ideas and try to create a poem from one or more, concentrating especially on sensory images. I drew "sore muscles" and this is the poem I came up with:
Sore Muscles
Mouth wide in a lion's yawn,
my body greets the day
with each tendon stretching
longer, stronger.
Feet laced into sweat-scented sneakers.
Heel to toe, leaning into the second mile,
breath coming in pants.
Acid injected deep below my calves,
pinch and burn
slow fire licking my legs
wrapping knotted fibers
into muscles newly born.
