Remix · Where From Poem

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Your Name Hint

A small but significant household item from your childhood Hint

A 2nd small but significant household item from your childhood Hint

A 3rd small but significant household item from your childhood Hint

A meaningful place you spent a lot of time as a child Hint

Describe this place in one complete sentence Hint

A 2nd meaningful place you spent a lot of time as a child Hint

Describe this 2nd place in one complete sentence Hint

A thing you were known to love Hint

A trait or physical feature you were known for Hint

The name of an influential person/relative from your childhood Hint

A 2nd name of an influential person/relative from your childhood Hint

A clique or group/community you belonged to as a child Hint

Another group/community you belonged to as a child Hint

A saying or advice you heard frequently as a child Hint

A 2nd saying or advice you heard frequently as a child Hint

A memorable word or phrase you learned by heart as a child Hint

A 2nd short phrase which you learned by heart as a child Hint

The name of a place you're from Hint

A thing that characterizes that place Hint

A 2nd name of a place you're from Hint

A thing that characterizes that place Hint

A traumatic event that affected you or a family member Hint

A dozen words that sum up your experience growing up in the place you're from Hint

Example Poem

The example poem below is George Ella Lyon's “Where I'm From” poem. The fields at left reflect the elements which make up this unique list poem.

‘Where I'm From’
by George Ella Lyon

I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.

I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,
          from Imogene and Alafair.
I'm from the know-it-alls
          and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I'm from He restoreth my soul
          with a cotton ball lamb
          and ten verses I can say myself.

I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost
          to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.

Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments--
snapped before I budded --
leaf-fall from the family tree.

Techniques	Examples
Striking Language	"the eye my father shut to keep his sight" "a sift of lost faces to drift beneath my dreams"
Alliteration	"drift beneath my dreams" "from Perk up! and Pipe down!" "from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride"
Assonance	"to drift beneath my dreams" "the know-it-alls and the pass-it-ons"
Consonance	"a sift of lost faces" "ten verses I can say myself" "leaf-fall from the family tree"

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Example Poem