Quiet
This exercise works well following either My Mother’s Kitchen or Mapping Your Childhood. Read the poems below aloud and talk about the different types of quiet they can think of. Ask them to talk about it before you start writing. Some residents may need some prompting
Nantucket
Flowers through the window
lavender and yellow
changed by white curtains—
Smell of cleanliness—
Sunshine of late afternoon—
On the glass tray
a glass pitcher, the tumbler
turned down, by which
a key is lying—And the
immaculate white bed.
William Carlos Williams
The White Horse
The youth walks up to the white horse to put its halter on
and the horse looks at him in silence.
they are so silent they are in another world
D.H. Lawrence
No one spoke—
the host, the guests,
the white chrysanthemums.
Ryoto
Poems about quiet from residents of Regency Park:
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