To all MA Creative Writers at Lincoln Uni - 

I had a go at Michael's book idea for creating poetry! I used Wuthering Heights. Here are 3 poems I came up with:

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Up the garden causeway

the pervading spirit of neglect

twisted round her head.

He rose,

a born and bred gentleman

eager to greet.

He refused her hand and

shook her head instead,

thinking it best.

*

Hide your face.

Be off!

A stranger’s interest,

an object of amusement.

Trip merrily on!

My expectations are satisfied.

*

Impelled to see through my rudeness,

a respectable character

perceived decay,

black gaps and

creeping moss

woven into the heath

beneath a benign sky. 

No idea if they make sense or are any good but it was fun!!!!

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My sister edited his video! He's a new artist from America.

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A little poem by me...

           Once a Whale

                    Now

               a colossal

            shell, a vessel

       emptied of the desire

         to claim the ocean

              as its realm.

                    The

                 greatest

             voyager, rest

           in your final port.

Mirror by Sylivia Plath

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever you see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful---
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.