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get your poem on #4

Published by Tom December 10th, 2007 in Get Your Poem On, Tom.

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1 SB Dec 10th, 2007 at 12:24 am

This was such a useful exercise for me — thank you so much for the prompt! I realized that I’ve been writing almost entirely in short lines, for quite a long time. I used to write, at least sometimes, in long lines. I think the narrowness of my blog column has, perhaps, confined my style a bit.

So here is What It Is - an exercise in long lines.
2 UL Dec 10th, 2007 at 1:07 am

Mine is short lines too, usually shorter than the one I have here, but compared to what you really asked for, I dont think I have met the mark…but here it is anyway. Thanks so much for the prompt -

http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2007/12/high-cleaning.html

Do drop in your comments.
3 sister AE Dec 10th, 2007 at 1:15 am

My free verse also tends toward short lines, but I’m having trouble with longer lines. So instead, I played with the SHAPE the lines make:

http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/12/salute.html

and then, in a poem I wrote for another prompt site, I tried using shorter lines only for emphasis:

http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/12/museum-marble.html

thanks for the challenge!
4 paisley Dec 10th, 2007 at 1:16 am

i created an entire idea based on two word lines,, with one three word line as more or less a descriptor… very fun…

“venerated prey”
5 Jo Dec 10th, 2007 at 1:37 am

Here’s mine:

http://abroadsthoughtsfromhome.blogspot.com/2007/12/for-read-write-poem_09.html

Thanks for the prompt, it was interesting. I have to echo what SB says too, often the blog dictates my line length.
6 gautami Dec 10th, 2007 at 2:46 am

As for my writing goes, I keep changing. I write structured forms as well as free verse.

I tried a paradelle for this prompt which I had not attempted before.

Paradelle is a parody of the villanelle.

Mine is here:

scientifically insane—paradelle
7 gautami Dec 10th, 2007 at 3:08 am

PS: My line length too keep changing. long, short, mixed which all depends on what I am writing and how I want to convey it.
8 Jack Dec 10th, 2007 at 3:21 am

http://mingyun.org/2007/12/06/moonlit/

I went with longer lines for a change. I’m not totally happy with the results, but it was an interesting exercise.
9 Jessica Dec 10th, 2007 at 7:13 am

Excellent prompt — it gave me a much needed push to revise!

http://www.9to5poet.com/2007/12/bending-and-breaking-lines.html
10 Christine Dec 10th, 2007 at 9:21 am

Thanks, Tom. This prompt encouraged me to try something new.

http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/296/
11 slynne Dec 10th, 2007 at 9:52 am

I’m still working on mine. I got far too ambitious with the pieces of me poem and work, and I just put up a different three pieces of me poem, and and and… I am workingon a sestina for this one and I really hope to finish it tonight!
12 ...deb Dec 10th, 2007 at 10:01 am

Good prompt, Tom. I went with longer lines, though I think I might have gotten more out of the exercise had I gone longer line & longer poem or tried a formal shape.

Anyway, here it is:stoney moss: Bringing Bread to the House of the Bereaved…for ReadWritePoem.
13 poet with a day job Dec 10th, 2007 at 10:26 am

I didn’t follow the prompt, other than to be prompted to write a poem - but I do at least know this one wants to be a prose poem…

Dance
14 Rethabile Dec 10th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

This is off-prompt, and some of you have already seen it, but I have nothing else to offer, so here goes: The bonfire. Cheers. RWP is turning out nicely. Good.
15 Dave Bonta Dec 10th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

A post I did two days ago followed perhaps the spirit of the prompt rather than the letter, in that I did some translations and was therefore led to arrange my words to resemble the originals as much as possible — often not the way I would’ve arranged them at all.
“El son de las hojas”: Five tree poems from Renaissance Spain

(I’m still going to try to do an original poem for this prompt, and will leave a pingback if I do.)
16 SweetTalkingGuy Dec 10th, 2007 at 8:02 pm

Yeah, I tried to write the longest lines I could but ended up chopping them down to seventeen syllable sentences as anything longer doesn’t fit on my blog.
Anyway, I used your random prompt, Confession!

Here’s my attempt:
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2007/12/rwp4-confession.html
17 Linda Jacobs Dec 10th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

I enjoyed writing this sestina but still like the way short lines look on the page.
18 Dick Jones Dec 11th, 2007 at 9:26 am

I’m modeling the longer line with this one.
19 Crafty Green Poet Dec 11th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Here’s my post about line length: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2007/12/line-length.html - it has some links to poems of mine with different line lengths.
20 Roberta Dec 11th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

http://birdswordpoetry.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/fruits/

my attempt, reposted in the right spot-again a combo of poem idea #3 and #4 plus a hats off to Allen Ginsburg again (if I counted correctly that is)
21 pauline Dec 11th, 2007 at 9:37 pm

My contribution is here
22 slynne Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:51 am

OK, work on the sestina continues, but here is my post with a sort of interactive thing I usually do not do.

http://soyouthinkican.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/word-lust/
23 wendy Dec 12th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

http://quietaboutalotofthings.blogspot.com/2007/12/line-breaks-and-comas-and-flowoh-my.html

blogger wanked up the line breaks..

but it is a departure.
24 Tom Dec 12th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

Perhaps late, but better than never, right. Maybe not after you read this.
25 Clay Dec 13th, 2007 at 10:41 am

This poem grew out of a line i heard on my daily walk. The line in question is ‘I was here to stay.’ The resultant poem:

http://claytonlowe.com/?p=257
26 Read Write Poem Dec 17th, 2007 at 12:21 am

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