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get your poem on #11

Published by Christine January 28th, 2008 in Christine, Get Your Poem On.

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  1. 1 UL Jan 28th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    a lame attempt, but fits I hope

    http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/01/overheard.html

  2. 2 ...deb Jan 28th, 2008 at 12:08 am

    This one has a political slant:

    Not just politics as usual? It’s a political fib.

  3. 3 dale Jan 28th, 2008 at 12:56 am

    Here’s mine:

    http://koshtra.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html#3484735406536283144

  4. 4 Whirling Dervish Jan 28th, 2008 at 1:46 am

    This was fun- mine is silly:

    http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2008/01/inspiration-from-odd-places.html

  5. 5 paisley Jan 28th, 2008 at 3:45 am

    i had wanted to try this form for some time,, so this was a perfect opportunity to do so….

    “olive tree”

    thanks for the comment notification… i really will be able to keep much better track of the entrants now….

  6. 6 gautami Jan 28th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    I had fun writing this:
    poking angles

  7. 7 Christine Jan 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    I included geometry in my poem, the only advanced math beyond arithmetic I sort of understood!

    a circle

  8. 8 Carolee Jan 28th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    i have a “free write list poem” posted here. it’s about fear and it includes some math, which is scary for me. no password needed on this one b/c it’s just a free write.

    i had plans to really work this prompt because the relationship between math and language (and science and language) really inspires me but a year or so ago, i had written a piece about trigonometry and i couldn’t get that one out of my head to start a new one. considering the slim pickings in my brain these days in terms of motivation — and beating myself up about not being motivated — i decided something was better than nothing!

  9. 9 Tiel Aisha Ansari Jan 28th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Posted this one for Poetry Thursday way back when; it’s still apropos.

    Cartesian Sky

  10. 10 SB Jan 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Well. This one got me going. How many poems is this?

    what equals metaphor plus math?

  11. 11 SB Jan 28th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    And — having finally learned to not try to post more than one link per comment — this is just for fun: a Real Writer’s Certificate and a Poetic License: I am a Real Writer & I can prove it

  12. 12 Wine-dark Sea Jan 28th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    HREF=”http://winedarksea.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/5/”>#5.

  13. 13 Wine-dark Sea Jan 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    #5

  14. 14 Linda Jacobs Jan 28th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Our school has block scheduling so we get all new kids half way through the year and that is this week. I’d much rather write something new but just can’t find the time right now. Can’t wait to get back on track! In the mean time, here’s a villanelle I wrote last year.

    My entry

  15. 15 Rob Kistner Jan 28th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Technomania

  16. 16 paisley Jan 28th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    it’s me,,, thorn in your side… i checked the box and did not receive any comments… its is ok… i will just shut up and do this the way it was originally planned to be done… you are a doll for trying…..

  17. 17 Noah Jan 28th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    I’ll repost my earlier post.

    ”

    I wrote a strange poem. Everything is a rough draft for me, so I wouldn’t be surprised, if it was radically different sometime in the future.

    http://noahthegreat.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/pathways/

    “

  18. 18 Rachel Barenblat Jan 29th, 2008 at 7:55 am

    This prompt was well-timed for me! I wrote a poem called Gematria.

  19. 19 diatribalArts Jan 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    much more difficult then first anticipated. not perfect but worthwhile…

    http://diatribalarts.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/her-hands-are-cold/

  20. 20 John Jan 29th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    I think this is appropriate: 11.27 does not equal 12

  21. 21 jillypoet Jan 30th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    For me, math is the impossible (I’m an artist, is my excuse…). From the impossible, I wrote June Cleaver Makes Much of Winter

    Comments & critique welcome!

  22. 22 sister AE Jan 30th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    This prompt led me down memory lane.

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/01/math-poem.html

  23. 23 Linda Jacobs Jan 30th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Honestly, mathematics does nothing for me but this incident was too priceless to pass up…and it involves numbers!

    here

  24. 24 Holly Mac Jan 31st, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    This is an old one, but it fits the prompt surprisingly well.

    http://hollyannam.blogspot.com/2008/01/poetry-of-logical-ideas.html

  25. 25 TIV Feb 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 am

    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Cat based on Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. I have decided that the way for me to learn poetry is to study and imitate poems one by one. This just happened to fit with this prompt to some degree.

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