Activated+noun+poems

﻿Activating nouns (when you make the noun do something) is a powerful tool for writing descriptively and painting a vivid picture in the head of readers. Try to visualise these places. :)

Soaked magazines cling to aged carpets Lego boxes rock to and fro in the light breeze Clothes, papers and pencils Squeeze through holed, rusty and overloaded drawers Thieving rubbers raid abandoned portraits ‘Save the alpacas!’ vivided onto a desk Now blurred and hanging limply As specks of paint touch the writing A malodorous smell reeks from open test tubes Crumpled boxes reveal dark and musty collections behind Planets hang dolefully from cracked ceiling The echoes of cats screeching bounce off each bedroom wall A lifeless tamagotchi beeps in the corner whining for power The echoes stop. Crumbs of biscuits try to grope their way out of the rug <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">I look on, thinking of the past, <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The good old past, <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">I feel no emotions, I can’t, ghosts can’t <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">I’m just an old forgotten stranger, <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Drifting through this wise cluttered bedroom.
 * =<span style="color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 24pt;">My room =

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">By Antonia <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">2011 ||  || Butterflies

Butterflies butterflies every were In your legs in your hair In the tree They stay up all night and sleep all day They only last one more day Butterflies butterflies so nice when alive.

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==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** By Ben M ** == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 2011 ** ==