Write a poem using the following vocabulary:

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Write a poem using the following vocabulary

• Heartbeat, island, ice, cream, ebbing, fire,
  kiss, memory, sweat, interlinked, lament,
  seaweed, moon, sickle, prayer, forcing, passing,
  treading, went, share, tears and the verbto
  be, articles and prepositions.

• Warm, her, cyclical, love, humid, perspired,
  violet, looked, intention, felt, destroy, fell,
  tree, lake, beach, humidity, rush, tide, swash,
  pebble, intoned,

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Write your poems.

• You have 15 minutes.
• Work as a team as far as you can How do you
  decide which lines to use?

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Marking and now the points from the Slough jury

• There are 5 groups.
• Each of you can award each group with either
  1,2,3 or 4 marks depending on perceived quality.
  You may not give 2 groups the same marks.
• You must award each of your marks.
• You can not vote for yourselves.

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OK, but how do we judge?

• Should we judge art?
• Is art too subjective to judge?
• If we judge, what are we commenting on,
  aesthetics or taste?

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Bratislava poem

• A kiss was memory
• Ebbing, passing as the tide
• Of tears.
• Her lament forcing a prayer
• To destroy the love
• Intoned to a sickle moon by
• The swash of the tide.

• On her island in the
• Violet humidity of her love,
• Her intention tears with
• Sweat interlinked tears.
• A rush to destroy
• Intention
• As a pebble in the tide.