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get your poem on #14

Published by Jill February 18th, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Jill.

Here we are with Get Your Poem On #14.

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  1. 1 Tiel Aisha Ansari Feb 18th, 2008 at 12:54 am

    Here’s mine, written before I discovered the prompt, but appropriate nonetheless:

    Scapulimancy

  2. 2 This Girl Remembers Feb 18th, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Here’s mine for this week - I can’t decide whether I think it’s successful or not, but it is what it is. :)

    Sacred Ground

  3. 3 paisley Feb 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    i had fun with this.. i consentrated on cadence.. i hope it really is an ode…

    at this moment

  4. 4 chicklegirl Feb 18th, 2008 at 1:22 am

    What a great prompt to get us thinking about how miraculous our bodies are, how we can love even those parts we think we hate or wish to tweak:

    Ode to Hips

  5. 5 gautami tripathy Feb 18th, 2008 at 2:46 am

    I don’t know if I did it right.

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode-for-convoluted-crevices.html

  6. 6 steve Feb 18th, 2008 at 2:54 am

    First time:

    http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode.html

  7. 7 totomai Feb 18th, 2008 at 5:23 am

    not really an ode, but its about a body part :-) find out what it is

    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/02/polka-dots.html

  8. 8 AnthonyNorth Feb 18th, 2008 at 6:08 am

    My subject is the brain. Here it is:

    http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/ode-to-the-brain

  9. 9 Dave Feb 18th, 2008 at 9:21 am

    I wrote an Ode to a newspaper article this morning. Meh. But I had fun!

    And if anyone has the stomach for it, a few months back I wrote an Ode to Scrapple, which was also quite bodily.

  10. 10 Leigh Lear Feb 18th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    here’s mine, i actually prefer eyes, but this was easier to write:)
    http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/02/read-write-poem-prompt.html

  11. 11 Dave Feb 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    Sorry - I forgot and put two links into my comment, landing it in the moderation queue. Let me try again.
    Ode to a newspaper article.

  12. 12 Christine Feb 18th, 2008 at 10:51 am

    I wrote a pleiades, not an ode. It’s a little confection intended to brighten up your Monday. :)

    feet

  13. 13 jillypoet Feb 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Holding Her Heart In Her Hand, The Wife Discovers She Has Just Made Another Mess To Clean Up

    It isn’t an ode, per say, but it started out as one!

  14. 14 Mad Kane Feb 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s mine: This Haiku Has Legs

  15. 15 Linda Jacobs Feb 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    This was a cool prompt! Thanks!

    My entry

  16. 16 Kate Feb 18th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    Thank you for this prompt, and for those odes. I spent some time marvelling at the way Neruda celebrates and deepens cockles and mussels and root bulbs without overromanticizing them, and wishing for a bowl of that chowder, and not sure I would find the kind of celebration I wanted. I wanted something specific, a particular body, and a reason for it, something as gallant and understated and glowing and even sad as his shallots.

    And then today at work, a woman and a rose bush came suddenly to mind, out of a story i heard once by chance. I guarantee it’s not the story you think it is either. It’s here. Many parts of many bodies, vintage and beautiful.

  17. 17 ...deb Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:55 am

    This isn’t an ode, but it does respond to the prompt: They Do So Much More Than Catch Sweat

  18. 18 Meera Feb 19th, 2008 at 3:02 am

    Here’s my poem Dedicated to my ‘body doubles’, i.e., duos-in-perfect-positive-correlation

  19. 19 SweetTalkingGuy Feb 19th, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Hi, thanks for the prompt, mine’s more code than ode but I guess ‘they’re’ still trying to find my brain…

    http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/02/im-fighting-back-ive-got-diagnostic.html

  20. 20 wendy Feb 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    Baby..It’s been a long time…

    http://quietaboutalotofthings.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode-to-my-bodyat-least-its-wrapper.html

    Please excuse the abscence. I believe I may have angered SOMBODY’s God.

    Sorry, my bad.

  21. 21 Rob Kistner Feb 19th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Just for fun — Humongous

  22. 22 Roberta Feb 19th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    Here is mine, written prior to reading the prompt- a body part has been included though it certainly is not a love poem-nor an ode for that matter….

    what I have to say

  23. 23 Bean Feb 19th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    Here is mine to the Shared Body:

    http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/02/prompt-body.html

  24. 24 sister AE Feb 19th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    I at least have a start to an ode here:

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode.html

    Can’t wait to read what the rest of you have posted!

  25. 25 dale Feb 20th, 2008 at 6:39 am

    I’m not sure if anyone will get either why I think this is an ode, or why it’s to the body, but here it is:

    http://koshtra.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html#6540359570531927254

  26. 26 renkat Feb 21st, 2008 at 8:00 am

    http://1802eggs.blogspot.com/2008/02/147.html

    thanks for letting me play. this is an ode that sort of turns on irony- forgive me.

  27. 27 mark Feb 21st, 2008 at 10:17 am

    one more:

    http://different-eye.blogspot.com/2008/02/518.html

  28. 28 pepektheassassin Feb 22nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Can I still get in on this? And I hope it works– PSALTERY. (Just click on my name. I still cannot make a link).

  29. 29 carolee Feb 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    here’s pepek’s link

    we’re having a little technical difficulty with her name/log-in above …

  30. 30 Allyson Feb 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    About my tattoo

    http://amwpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/02/readwritepoem-ode-to-body.html

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