Category: Academic

Assignment:
Write a poem using 4 of the following: A simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, 2 symbols, a paradoxical statement, or hyperbole.
Response:
A single candle
Lit with the intensity of a thousand suns
The flame jumps and dances
Quietly speaking to anyone who will listen
Like a quiet mourner in the night
But the existence of the flame is life, not death
The flame persists throughout the night
As the glow of morning approaches, the candle is short
The dew falls, the flame grows weak
As the sun rises, a new life gives birth to death

Assignment:
Write an interesting version of an existing recipe
Response:
Today, my young student, you will learn to make a special lasagna. It has four major parts, the red sauce, the bechamel (white sauce), a ricotta filling and then the structural components.
You will need a small bundle of lasagna noodles, two large handfuls of a ground red meat of your choice, a palm of chopped allium cepa, three bulbs allium sativum, a few dribbles of olive oil, three medium love apples (peeled and chopped), a generous pinch of sodium chloride, a small pinch of basil and oregano and a few cracks of ripe peppercorns.
Place the pasta into a pot of dihydrogen monoxide once it has reached 374 degrees kelvin if you are at one atmosphere of pressure. If you are in a situation that causes you to have an irregular pressure, please calculate your proper boiling point based on the assumption that dihydrogen monoxide will boil at the temperature at which the vapor pressure is equal to the relative atmospheric pressure1. At this point you may include sodium chloride in the dihydrogen monoxide if desired. Remove the pasta from the dihydrogen monoxide and sodium chloride compound, and immediately submerge it in dihydrogen monoxide at a temperature near 277 degrees kelvin until all of the other steps have been completed. Preparing the pasta first ensures that all other required compounds remain stable until they can be cooked.
Cook meat, allium cepa and allium sativum in a saute pan until the red pigments fade away, but do not allow the meat to begin turning brown. Use an osmosis process to remove fat. You will then add the remaining ingredients and cook quickly until the sauce is thick. This should take about thirty to forty-five minutes. Preheat baking apparatus to 477 degrees kelvin.
Next you will prepare the bechamel. You will need 118 CC homogenized churned fermented cream, one small hand of ground wheat grain powder, enough bovine lactic fluid to fill a 10cm by 2.5cm cylinder, an equal amount of fowl broth, one cube of fowl bouillon, and an additional small pinch of sodium chloride.
Heat the churned cream slowly until it de-coagulates, then add the wheat powder. Agitate briefly with wire instrument for one minute. Slowly add bovine lactic fluid, fowl broth. Heat to the appropriate point of boil for your atmospheric pressure. Continue agitation with the before mentioned instrument. Perform an oral examination of bechamel, and add boullion and/or sodium chloride if needed.
The final sauce is the ricotta filling. For this filling, you will need the egg of one chicken, 473 CC curdled dairy whey, 225 CC grana curdled cream and a pinch of sodium chloride. Open the egg, and empty its contents into a bowl, agitate briskly. Add the remaining ingredients and agitate slowly.
The last part is the assembly. For this you will need all of the compounds you have composed in the previous steps as well as an additional 1000 CC of grana curdled cream and 473 CC curdled whole bovine milk. Obtain and lubricate a 33cm by 23cm baking dish. Place some meat sauce into the bottom of the dish, just enough to hold the pasta in place. Lay half of the noodles on the sauce, and half of the remaining meat sauce, half of the bechamel, half of the grana curdled cream, half of the curdled whole bovine milk, and half of the ricotta filling. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
From room temperature, bake at 477 degrees kelvin, uncovered, for 30 minutes or more, until bubbly.

Assignment:
Rewrite a fairy tale into a poem.
Response:
-The Ugly Duckling-
Why must I be so different from the others?
Outcast, Shamed and Insulted
Fearing what life might bring with its next day
Disappointment, strange looks and degradation
Hiding myself more and more each day to adapt
Can’t let the outside world see the real me
Now things have changed
I know myself now
Is it safe to come out to the world?
Will the torment from my past cease?
I know myself
I know I am a beautiful person

Assignment:
A sestina has 6 six-line stanzas and concludes with a final three-line stanza. In addition, each of the 6 stanzas uses the same words at the end of each line (but not in the same order). And, the last three-line stanza must make use of those same (6) words. Your Task: Write a Sestina.
Response:
Chocolate!
Warm, delicious chocolate from a dream
It seems as though I never have time
I need that chocolate in my blood
Oh how I crave a taste
I must be good, for now I will have water
I lack satisfaction from water
I need my cure, pure, sweet chocolate
All I need is a taste
Please don’t ruin my dream
I will give my blood
To have chocolate all the time
Boiling is my blood
Sweet is my chocolate
Bland is water
Chocolate is the dream
I need time
Time to taste
When I sleep coco is in my dream
I awake craving a taste
As soon as my alarm goes off, it is chocolate time
I splash my face with water
Cooling is the effect on my blood
But I still want CHOCOLATE
Why can we not all find the time?
Doesn’t everyone crave chocolate?
They must, for it is much sweeter than a young bull’s blood
The healthiest treat on Earth is water
Water can never parallel the chocolate taste
Oceans, lakes and waterfalls of chocolate fill my dream
The confection has a rich texture and taste
Lets not make haste in making the delicacy of chocolate
Antioxidants? There are none in water
Chocolate is good for the blood
Remember the benefits of chocolate at snack time
Remember chocolate for the sweetest dream
Dreams of chocolate
They taste sweet all the time
Chocolate is thicker than blood and water

Assignment:
Assemble a poem from various lines of a tour book, website, or other travel companion/resource
Response:
– A Cruise to Remember –
God himself could not sink this ship!
We place absolute confidence in the Titanic
Southhampton, Cherbourg, New York
Sails from New York 20 April 1912
Onboard swimming pool, a gymnasium
Turkish bath, libraries
Fastest, and the most luxurious ship afloat
Owned by the White Star Line
Titanic is unsinkable
*lines collected from varying Titanic resources and White Star Lines leaflets.

Assignment:
Imagine a person who uses public space as if it were private space. Write a description of this person in any form you chose, describing his/her actions.
Response:
He stood there, in the cookware section of the department store, staring intently into the bottom of one of the finest polished steel skillets in the store. His hair was neatly styled into rows of spikes held in place with gel. His muscular arms sprouted from his tight tshirt like tree branches, glistening in the artificial light above him. The shirt clung firmly to his muscular chest and well-formed abs. The rest of his clothing, just a simple pair of running shorts and athletic shoes to accent his two trunks. His face still staring into the pan, his blue eyes fixed on the object of his glance. He reaches down into the two quart saucepan beside him and pulls up his razor. He pulls the blade quickly through the layer of foam on his face, once, then again and again until his face is clear of the foam. He returns his razor to the saucepan, then opens the lid of the roasting pan on the shelf below where his skillet hangs. A small cloud of steam rises from the roasting pan. He reaches in and pulls out a small cloth, which his then uses to wipe his face. He returns the cloth to the pan and then turns to leave. When turning he is confronted by a young woman with golden hair. She inquires to him “Sir, what are you doing?” his cleanly shaven face turns bright shades of red before he responds “Ma’am, I am running late, as I often do, and neglected to shave, and this spot seemed as good a choice as any”. The woman smiled and nodded, and the embarrassed gentleman excused himself and dashed off to his station at the sporting goods section of the store.

Assignment:
The task is to write a ten-line poem. This poem must include a proverb, saying, or familiar phrase (examples: as fast as greased lightening, one foot in the grave, the whole nine yards) that you have changed in some way. This poem should also include five of the following words in it:
cliff, blackberry, needle, cloud, voice, whir, lick, mother
Response:
My dear hummingbird, you visit me every spring
You leave me every fall
You mother your young so near the needle of the pine tree
I spy you grabbing sweet nectar from the blackberry blossom
That is a taste we share, as when the berries are ready, I too will get a lick
You seem to have no voice, only great speeds with which to communicate
When I lay on the lawn to watch the clouds, you zip by, with not even a sound
I wish I too could move at your speed, but in the summers, I prefer to read
Your presence makes me happy hummingbird, you are my friend
Look before you whir my dear hummingbird, for my window is a rather steep cliff

New Category: Hobbies > Academic > Creative Writing
http://www.disturbingthoughts.net/archives/hobbies/academic/creative_writin/
Under this heading I will post things I’ve been working on this semester in my Creative Writing course at CPCC. The posts will be in the format of Assignment as assigned and then my response to the assignment.
Assignments that are particularly long may be linked to in an entry as a separate file.