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get your poem on #5

Published by Christine December 17th, 2007 in Christine, Get Your Poem On.

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  1. 1 SweetTalkingGuy Dec 17th, 2007 at 3:42 am

    Thanks, enjoyed doing this.
    Taken from Alice in Wonderland.
    http://sewina.blogspot.com/2007/12/rwp5-hanging-in-park.html

  2. 2 Crafty Green Poet Dec 17th, 2007 at 3:57 am

    This was a great prompt, worked much better for me than I expected it to! Thanks Christine! I used Anne Michael’s Fugitive Pieces for the inspiration andmy poem is here, on my Alter Ego blog: http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2007/12/refugee.html

  3. 3 gautami Dec 17th, 2007 at 5:23 am

    I took words from Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult. My verse was not intended to be short review. However, it is.

    better judgement

  4. 4 bb Dec 17th, 2007 at 7:52 am

    My first week ~ loved the prompt! I’ve used D.H. Lawrences’ ‘The Virgin and the Gipsy’ ~ strictly speaking a novella…

    My Family Name

  5. 5 Tom Dec 17th, 2007 at 8:22 am

    John Berendt’s The CIty of Falling Angels was my inspiration this week.
    Acqua Alta

  6. 6 UL Dec 17th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Here’s mine - inspired by a Hindu philosophy ‘Bhagavad-Gita’

    http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2007/12/who-wins.html

  7. 7 Ceridwen Dec 17th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    Hi BB, and welcome to the project!

  8. 8 ...deb Dec 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

    I went with Joan Dideon’s Year of Magical Thinking To Focus On What Is Not Is Not Comforting

  9. 9 Linda Jacobs Dec 17th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    To Kill a Mockingbird (Sorry I don’t know how to use italics in a message!) is the first novel that popped into my head. It’s one of my all time favorites. You can read mine here hopefully, if I did this link thing right!

  10. 10 Christine Dec 17th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

    Here’s mine, a roughdraft for sure. I’ll be back later to read!

    http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/it-got-me-again/

  11. 11 Tammy Dec 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pm

    My first contribution can be found here:

    http://mylifeasawarrior.blogspot.com/2007/12/read-write-poem-transitions.html

    Thanks
    Tammy

  12. 12 Ceridwen Dec 17th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    Welcome, Tammy!

  13. 13 sister AE Dec 18th, 2007 at 12:03 am

    I went with words from “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” by Gregory Maguire. [I made my wife laugh at me when I confessed it was the first novel I found that I didn't have to dust off.]

    My poem this week is called Onward and you can find it here:

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/12/onward-for-read-write-poem.html

  14. 14 SB Dec 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Another long-line poem: Here.

    I’m loving these prompts.

  15. 15 slynne Dec 21st, 2007 at 8:54 am

    Just in the nick of time!

    http://soyouthinkican.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/novel-poetry-prompt/

  16. 16 betherann Dec 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    Sneaking in just under the wire for my first RWP!

    http://codyisamazing.blogspot.com/2007/12/reading-writing-poeming.html

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