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Submitted by: Shorty on 27-May-2008
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Game categories: Relaxing games, Icebreaker games, Junior youth games
Materials: paper and pens
This is a nice quiet activity when you've got a small cozy group and have some time to kill. Organize people into a circle or around a table. Give each person a sheet of paper and a writing utensil. Have every one write the first line to a poem at the top of the page. Then pass the page to the person on their right. That person reads the first line then writes a second line to it. That person must then fold the paper back to hide the first line from view, so that only the second line shows. The poets pass their papers to their right again. Each time they get the paper and write a new line, they should fold back the previous line out of view. This continues until you run out of room. The end result should be a strip of folded paper. Then have everyone open the paper in their possession and take turns reading. The poems usually turn out pretty absurd, but sometimes it's amazing how cohesive they can be.
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3 people have commented on Poetry in Motion
Carolyn
November 13, 2008 at 10:53 pm
This sounds really interesting. I would like to try this.
Khristina
July 29, 2009 at 7:58 pm
This is a great game! You can also play a drawing version;
Fold an A3 piece of paper into thirds then start by drawing a head, fold it over so the head is no longer visable then pass it to the next person who draws a body. Then they fold it over and the final person draws legs and feet. Make sure that when the person is finished drawing they mark the neck and waist/legs beginning on the flip side of the paper so in the end it looks natural and in purpotion. Just to make things different you don't have to just draw humans, why not try a monster body or bird feet.
Eilish
June 21, 2010 at 4:36 pm
This game is brilliant! I played it once at my highschool youth group and it was just hilarious! We wrote stories instead of poems and chose a word (or letter) that everybody had to start with when they began writing a small paragraph of the story...it was sooo funny, we couldn't stop giggling the whole way through...haha...