My mom used to be an art therapist, working with teenagers. She used a magnetic poetry set with them, letting them play around with words like ask, alone, and strong. When she got out her old set for me to play with, I 
wasn’t that excited at first. I already had a poetry set to use on the fridge, and the words it came with, (happy, ball, play, cake) weren’t really what I wanted to write about. But these words were stronger, and I found myself playing around with them in different ways. Here’s what I came up with:
Pretty cool, right? 
There isn’t a perfect rhythm, but for a fridge poem, that’s okay. I went back and changed the way the words were on the page, but I didn’t change any words. The result is a poem that is sort of raw, and rocky. It’s a really good writing exercise, and it’s fun to write. 
November 19, 2009 at 2:19 am
that’s SO sick!!!!
how did you make those magnets?
that seems like a really cool exercise!
you wat u should do?
set the alarm clock to 2:00 in the morning and you get up to the frdge and combine a bunch of words and write wat u fell about it.
then go back to sleep till you wake up in the morning, and see how you feel of the scrambe of words in the morning!
That would be SSOOOOOOOOOOO cool to try!
November 19, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Thanks, Skittles!
That is a really cool idea! I’ll try that if I can convince my parents! 
The magnets are made with magnetic tape from the craft store.
November 20, 2009 at 3:11 am
I love this poem! (and the photo is nice too) I also really like how you describe the poem as raw and rocky. It’s true that you have to surrender to a certain kind of limited rhythm when you have limited words and tenses (past, present, future). But, your poem makes the most of it. You’ve got a poem that is raw and rocky and strong and emotional. bravo