Level 3 Exercise: song Soul One Blind Melon A man realizes too late that his pain poisoned the love that might have saved him. Exercise 2 I miss you I fucking miss you God…how I miss you. Wow.. miss you too Exercise 3 “Golden light smelled like laughter while thunder rolled to the beat of my heart.” Exercise 4 My anxiety is the blight of my soul. My anxiety is the reason I fail My anxiety is a tiny butterfly I smash with heavy hands Exercise 5 Similes Fear is like hope turned inside out. Heartbreak is like a painting you finished then burned to ash Jealousy is like poison devouring you from the inside Loneliness is like my worst best friend Choose one object: • a key • a dress • a cigarette • a flower • a photograph Assign emotional meaning to it and build a poem around that symbol in your journal 🖋️ I found a red rose dead and dried A forgotten memory a forgotten time Stuck between to blank pages in a book The past suffused; love forsook. Haunted by a smile that slipped away Holding on to pieces of yesterday Happily ever after, just a lie. A cruel shadow where my dreams go to die For so long I chased the dream Happily ever after but not for me I found a half-written letter you started for me. Left in a drawer, ink faded, starting to bleed. A piece of a sentence, the paper torn. The mask removed, no longer worn. Stuck in the dark, a lost version of me. A final scene in our tragedy It started like any other, no surprise. “Dear John, I can no longer go on living this lie.” No more forever just left with goodbye. Looking back, so clear to me today. Instead of keeping, I should’ve thrown the rose away. Exercise 6 rain Bring on the storm, we’ll dance in the rain bring on the thunder, let it call my name we ain’t running for cover, we ain’t playing it safe we’re one bad move away from going up in flames if the sky falls down, let it fall our way we’ll make a home outta what it breaks if loving you’s a tornado I’ll ride it out like a desperado till the rain stops or the wind breaks