Cut up old magazines and news paper, taking the larger typed headlines. Keep going until you’re board! Now spread the words out and begin to arrange them into a stream or river of words. You can glue them to paper or card and create your poem this way or just see what words are presented too you by the exercise and take those away with you to work on later.

If you do the second option then look at the words, is there and strange but powerful combinations you made from the cut outs? Take these phrases and use them as the starts of poems.