get your poem on #3

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27 Responses to “get your poem on #3”

  1. 1 Ceridwen

    This was hard for me. I only kind of did the prompt. I wrote about each “piece” but was not able to weave them all together. Sigh. So I am sharing one of the pieces.

    Here is my contribution.

  2. 2 Tom

    This was a really good prompt, I just couldn’t get focused on it. I still have a week to try to do it well, but for now: this.

  3. 3 Whirling Dervish

    http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2007/12/3-pointy-parts.html

    This was a fun one, although I was irreverent..

  4. 4 sister AE

    I wrote a lot of poetry this weekend when I was procrastinating (I have reviews to finish for work - that’s why I’m up now at 1 AM). This is what came from the 3 things I found in my desk.

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/12/three-things.html

  5. 5 Jo
  6. 6 Jack

    Well, here’s my go for the week.

    http://mingyun.org/2007/12/03/treasured/

  7. 7 Catherine

    I didn’t quite get my ideas together, but this piece I had already written is semi-relevant to the prompt as it mixes up different periods of history:
    The Crows at Stirling Castle

  8. 8 gautami
  9. 9 chocolate covered musings

    hello everyone. i haven’t actually written much poetry recently, but i did have a crack at this one. when i had finished the first draft i realised that there wasn’t much substance to my poem and it seemed a bit two-dimensional, so i played around with it answering questions that i had been asking myself as i thought about it during the day.

    i would really appreciate some constructive feedback on this. i find it a bit of a struggle to get anything out at the moment and would welcome your critique and advice!

    i guess what i’m meant to do is give you a link to this poem, so here it is…

    three

  10. 10 paisley

    this was really tough… i was lost in the abstractness of the prompt but i am hoping i redeemed myself in the end….

    “trinity me”

  11. 11 Derek

    Okay, okay, so I didn’t do the prompt. But I do have two new pieces up. Come on by!

  12. 12 The Polka Dot Witch

    i agree this one was tricky … but not for lack of ideas, it seems, all around. i came up with plenty of ideas, but they seemed to need more attention than i could give them this week.

    i did get 5 “pieces” in this one, randomly selected from a list of mine and two other poets’ pieces. but in order to do it, i did have to resort to a list poem. if nothing else, list poems give up pieces to work on individually in the future.

    here it is / no password needed this time, my pretties. but i have been having trouble with the comments section of my blog. if you have trouble, email art[at]polkadotwitch[dot]com so i can keep nagging the wordpress people.

  13. 13 Linda Jacobs

    What a treat to have a snow day today and be able to post early and read the poems already posted.

    Again, thank you for creating this cool site!

    here

  14. 14 Ceridwen

    Polka Dot Witch, I am having trouble commenting, so I will leave my comment here. (I also e-mailed it to you.)

    “Aaah, the list poem. I should have thought about that when I tried putting my pieces together. You’ve pulled all your pieces together well. I also really like the ending of this and how visually the pieces start to fall out like so many slips of paper.”

    I hope you can get the Wordpress people to listen to you about your template not working correctly.

  15. 15 Christine

    I took three dream objects I’ve been seeing lately, and tried to tie them together in a poem. I wrote a sestina, or attempted one, because of the multiples of three.

    http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/computers-copiers-and-codes/

    This was a tough one for me, but I already see how the mixing of three elements could turn into a braided poem, with lots of possibilities. Thanks polkadotwitch, for a spellbinding prompt. :)

  16. 16 SweetTalkingGuy

    Mine’s a bit of a bucket mix!
    Sand Cement and Stone.

    http://sewina.blogspot.com/2007/12/rwp-3-sand-cement-and-stone.html

  17. 17 pauline

    my three things ended up being more related than not. Read about them here

  18. 18 susan

    This is first time participating here. Pardon me if I screwed up. I become confused easily. Anywhoo, here’s my contribution:

    http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/

  19. 19 Ceridwen

    Susan, you didn’t screw up at all. Welcome to the project.

  20. 20 Spring Farm Almanac

    Great fun!

    One of my things is a man, or the portrait of a man. A compassionate one, I hope. Juxtapositions can have such force.

    http://springfarmalmanac.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/a-bent-for-history/

  21. 21 Paris Parfait

    I am in London and hope to read your contributions later in the week. Here’s mine:

    http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2007/12/three-cities.html

    Merci!

  22. 22 ...deb

    I had a time finding threes I wanted to work with, so I tried Ceridwen’s idea instead of mine. But I remembered hers wrong, or rather, not quite right. So here’s mine: First Fear and a Death, something that pushed me a bit.

    I’ll be back to read you all.

  23. 23 Fabs

    Haha! This was lots of fun. and my first contribution!

    http://halftones.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/a-painting-a-pirate-hat-and-a-promiscuous-night-in-beijing/

    Thanks everybody!

    Fabs.

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