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get your poem on #15

Published by Carolee February 25th, 2008 in Carolee, Get Your Poem On.

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  1. 1 ...deb Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    My link isn’t to a poem (as inspiring as Carolee’s prompt was) but to a reading I went to this past week (Li-Young Lee, lucky me) and thoughts around that experience.

    Li-Young Lee and the dying breath.

  2. 2 UL Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    this too, a kind of weather I hope, one that fits the prompt, I hope

    http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/02/natures-passion.html

  3. 3 chicklegirl Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    This prompt inspired a little celebration of warmer weather…

    After Winter’s Thousand Days

  4. 4 Mad Kane Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:30 am

    Thanks for the prompt. It inspired Weathering The Weather.

  5. 5 Tiel Aisha Ansari Feb 25th, 2008 at 1:05 am

    Treacherous Season

  6. 6 gautami Feb 25th, 2008 at 2:47 am

    mine:

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/02/coiled-and-cocooned.html

  7. 7 Anu Feb 25th, 2008 at 3:11 am

    Brought back some nice memories while writing this poem

    http://anura.blogspot.com/2008/02/surprise-gift.html

  8. 8 Crafty Green Poet Feb 25th, 2008 at 3:26 am

    Today I posted an old poem about clouds, so it is weather really: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/02/mother-of-pearl-clouds.html

    I look forward to reading everyone elses!

  9. 9 Crafty Green Poet Feb 25th, 2008 at 3:27 am

    and last week I posted a new poem about the lunar weather and the eclipse:
    http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/02/eclipsed.html

  10. 10 Rethabile Feb 25th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    An oldie, but about the weather, yes. Beginning a poem.

    I hope to be back writing more. For now, work isn’t letting me.

  11. 11 AnthonyNorth Feb 25th, 2008 at 4:08 am

    A little something about the weather. Enjoy.

    http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/the-weather

  12. 12 Brian Feb 25th, 2008 at 5:03 am

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/frightful/

    A poem called “Rained Out” in which we express our frustrations with weather forecasts.

  13. 13 paisley Feb 25th, 2008 at 7:36 am

    i had a great time with this one.. i combined it with friday five and the words were perfect!!

    lost in the storm

  14. 14 totomai Feb 25th, 2008 at 7:50 am

    well, a frozen weather (just missing the snow and Japan)

    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/02/frozen.html

  15. 15 Leigh Lear Feb 25th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    this loosely has to do with weather.

    http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/02/sorrow-day-sky-went-away-my-heart.html

  16. 16 Rachel Barenblat Feb 25th, 2008 at 8:59 am

    Lunar eclipse
    http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/02/readwritepoem-l.html

  17. 17 Betherann Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    It’s cold again…sniff…
    http://codyisamazing.blogspot.com/2008/02/hope-departed-new-warmth-withers-chill.html

  18. 18 Linda Jacobs Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    Sometimes my marriage surprises me and is just like the weather. That’s what happened on this day last fall.

    here

  19. 19 Kate Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    This week, you gave me two prompts in one: weather and character. I’ve never gotten to see Helena (in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) played like a full-blooded woman, but I know people who have.

    Fun with thunderstorms here.

  20. 20 Allyson Feb 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    A brief one; winter has been on my mind a lot lately.

    http://amwpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/02/readwritepoem-weather.html

  21. 21 Christine Feb 25th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    This is a fantasy fable, more of a story than a poem, but not quite a story either.

    The fable of Octavia’s harp

  22. 22 Richard Feb 25th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    I got floored by a quote in the NY Times, and though there are some places you hate to go, sometimes you just have to…

    EAT OR STAY WARM

  23. 23 sister AE Feb 25th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Here’s something that came to me today:

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/02/weather-emporium.html

  24. 24 sister AE Feb 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    And for those who are interested, I finally finished this poem in response to a meme to describe myself in 10 stanzas:

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-10.html

  25. 25 pepektheassassin Feb 25th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    I am here. The weather is in “the eye.” A true story.

    http://myunclepepeksjournal.blogspot.com/2008/02/wi-wrp-one-for-two.html

  26. 26 Noah Feb 25th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    It’s funny how mine totally isn’t about weather.

    Hurricanes

  27. 27 Dave Feb 26th, 2008 at 12:12 am

    Here’s mine, for those who don’t check pingbacks: The claw.

  28. 28 Christine Feb 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    This one isn’t a weather poem, but after reading deb’s post I decided to record “birds fly gaga in her head” because of all the alliteration. It’s an abecedarius.

    http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/the-fable-of-octavias-harp/

  29. 29 Christine Feb 26th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Oops! That’s a link to a recording of the poem I already posted. Here’s a link to the abecedarius-

    Birds fly gaga in her head

  30. 30 Roberta Feb 26th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    promise of crocuses

    here is mine, still a work in progress I think

  31. 31 Bean Feb 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

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

  32. 32 diatribalArts Feb 27th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Something written eons ago. Simple but apropos.

    at sunset

  33. 33 Wine-dark Sea Feb 28th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Harsh weather! #3

  34. 34 Cary Rant Mar 2nd, 2008 at 7:59 am

    Here’s mine, about the electrifying effect of the thunderstorm on the soul.

    http://caryrant.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/read-write-poem-15-storm-front-moving-in/

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