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get your poem on #16

Published by Tom March 2nd, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Tom.

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  1. 1 totomai Mar 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    i hope this one fits the prompt :-)
    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/03/madonna-and-child.html

  2. 2 paisley Mar 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    the labyrinth

    very inspiring prompt.. thanks for it and the written info on the pantoum form.. both of which i was able to use this week…

  3. 3 gautami Mar 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    I wrote a terzanelle, my third one till date:

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/03/confusing-is-what-i-call-this.html

  4. 4 Noah Mar 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Introversion

  5. 5 sister AE Mar 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    I chose to repeat myself here:

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/vacation-repeats.html

  6. 6 Tiel Aisha Ansari Mar 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 am

    Here’s mine: it’s almost seasonal.

    Leavened Bread

  7. 7 Leigh Lear Mar 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 am

    i didn’t take on the form challenge, yet, but here is one with repeated lines. not sure its complete

    http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/03/read-write-poem-prompt.html

  8. 8 chicklegirl Mar 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 am

    It wasn’t that I chickened out over the challenge of writing in a structured form; rather, the idea of repetition hooked me in, took me in a completely different direction: to San Francisco.

    San Francisco Thrice

  9. 9 Rethabile Mar 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 am

    Mary Evans’ poem. And a good day to all.

  10. 10 AnthonyNorth Mar 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 am

    I think I got into the spirit of this prompt.
    Here it is, I hope you enjoy.
    Hopefully it is an interesting piece.
    Here it is, I hope you enjoy :-)

    http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/here-before-here-again

  11. 11 The Phantom Mar 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 am

    Now that I understand how this works, here is my post on the correct day :-) I chose a poem I’d written recently that repeated a single word. I’ll admit it’s a tad cheesy but I like the sentiment: Just

  12. 12 Christine Mar 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Pantoums are fun–thanks Tom!

    dream book pantoum

  13. 13 pepektheassassin Mar 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    O well. I tried. (I forgot about the deja vu part). ICE

    http://myunclepepeksjournal.blogspot.com/2008/03/these-pictures-of-ice-on-car.html

  14. 14 Linda Jacobs Mar 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    For Journal Writing I gave my students the prompt: behind lace curtains, and I wrote a pantoum for it. Mine’s a bit different, though, because I went back to the first stanza and took two lines from it for my last stanza. Also, I wasn’t very good about copying the lines exactly; I kind of tweaked them to make them fit the poem better.

    Pantoum

  15. 15 Poetman Mar 4th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    Hello, I often use repetition in my poems - here is my latest one…

    Its a shame we are not as empowered as children

    Poetman

  16. 16 renkat Mar 4th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    http://renpowellsmimes.blogspot.com/2008/03/nonce-form.html

    Not a pantoum, but a nonce form certainly related.

    I hope y’all will take a look . . .

    ren

  17. 17 Dave Mar 4th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Supposition

  18. 18 ...deb Mar 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    I gave a rhyming pantoum a try. Here is my rough draft: Pantoum for Laundry Day Dreams.

    This was fun to do, Tom. Thanks for inspiring me to write to a form I’ve never tried.

  19. 19 Rob Kistner Mar 5th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Hope

  20. 20 Blythe Mar 6th, 2008 at 1:53 am

    Tom: Thanks for the great info on pantoums. I was completely unaware. I tried to write one, ended up pulling out my hair… ;)
    Check it out! Check it out!

  21. 21 Lirone Mar 6th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    Ah - just realised I left my previous comment in the wrong place. Here’s my first pantoum…

    A wanderer returns

    though I think I should have read the description a bit more carefully as I’ve done it backwards - lines 1&3 becoming 2&4… oops!

  22. 22 Betherann Mar 6th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    A pantoum!

    http://codyisamazing.blogspot.com/2008/03/persona.html

  23. 23 dale Mar 7th, 2008 at 9:58 am

    This one was the intersection of a totally optional prompt (write in a different voice) and the repetition prompt, here:

    http://koshtra.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html#5394002876875880347

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