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Get Your Poem on # 18

Published by Juliet March 17th, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Juliet.

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Update: We’ve eliminated the link to the blog posting environmental poetry for World Poetry Day, not because we don’t support that cause, but because the blogger had not given satisfactory credit to one of our participants. Copyright and courtesy must be given their due.

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41 Responses to “Get Your Poem on # 18”

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  1. 1 Mad Kane Mar 17th, 2008 at 12:18 am

    Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s my tree-related verse:
    Yard Yarns

  2. 2 Jo Mar 17th, 2008 at 1:32 am

    Yes, thank you Juliet, I ended up writing a different one……..here it is:

    http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/a-tree-speaks/

  3. 3 gautami tripathy Mar 17th, 2008 at 1:34 am

    I loved doing this. Thanks for the prompt, Juliet!

    Here is mine:

    numbing nirvana

  4. 4 art predator Mar 17th, 2008 at 1:37 am

    I have two at

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com/

    1) untitled

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/spring-poem/

    and

    2) “I’d Rather Be An Oak than a Eucalyptus”

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/i-would-rather-be-an-oak-than-a-eucalyptus/

    BTW, how do you make the titles of the poems link? do you have to know html? did I miss the instructions somewhere?

  5. 5 AnthonyNorth Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:16 am

    Who wants to be a tree?

    Branches of Life

  6. 6 Crafty Green Poet Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:26 am

    Here’s mine:
    http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/03/barking.html

  7. 7 paisley Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    spellbound

    i had fun with this one…

  8. 8 totomai Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:46 am

    here’s mine.. inspired by one of my studies in college

    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/03/lament-of-rubber-tree.html

  9. 9 Rose Dewy Knickers Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:54 am

    I have a poem about Bristlecone Pines.

    Rose

    xo

    http://dewyknickers.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/carbon-trading/

  10. 10 Leigh Lear Mar 17th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    here’s my try.
    http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/03/read-write-poem-prompt_16.html

  11. 11 ...deb Mar 17th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    And mine: Chestnut-backed Chickadees in the Oregon White Oak.

    Nice prompt, Juliet!

  12. 12 Read Write Poem Mar 17th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    I had to find you in the swamp, Art, with all those links.:-) Post as many links as you want, but do it one comment at a time.

    There’s simple code to for the linked title, I’ll email you a sample you can see, and modify.

  13. 13 Liza Lee Miller Mar 17th, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Thank you! My poem is Tree=Life. I look forward to doing some reading! Thanks Juliet!

  14. 14 Tiel Aisha Ansari Mar 17th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    I often write as or about trees:

    Arboreal Desperation

  15. 15 Dave Mar 17th, 2008 at 8:54 am

    Juliet already mentioned this last week (thanks!), but I’d also like to encourage everyone with tree-related poems to submit your links to the Festival of the Trees, which will be hosted next month on a Brazilian blog - our first bilingual edition! Call f0r Submissions

  16. 16 Dave Mar 17th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    For my own submission, I don’t have anything new yet, but here’s an old poem that fits the bill: Confession of the Gallows Tree.

  17. 17 Christine Mar 17th, 2008 at 9:24 am

    Hey, everyone!

    Ophelia falls from a Bradford Pear Tree in Georgia.

  18. 18 Melanie-bd Mar 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Hi all,here is mine:

    my poem

    love-bd

  19. 19 LaurenceMcBeth Mar 17th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Here is my effort…

    http://semi-retired.livejournal.com/23400.html

  20. 20 UL Mar 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Late on this obe, but had to submit even though I call it a draft -

    http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/03/roots.html

  21. 21 Linda Jacobs Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    This was fun but went in a totally weird direction.

    <a
    href=”http://lindaspoetry.blogspot.com/2008/03/trees.html”White Birch Tree

  22. 22 Linda Jacobs Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    hm…what the heck did I do wrong? I’ll try again. Oh, I forgot the bracket before White. Duh!

    White Birch Tree

  23. 23 Dave Mar 17th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    O.K., here’s a new one: Legerdemain

  24. 24 SB Mar 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    I’ve been lax about prompts lately, but I do have 12 March 02008 - Snapshot Poem

  25. 25 seb Mar 17th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    a tree’s lament

  26. 26 Noah Mar 17th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Disappointment

  27. 27 Rob Kistner Mar 17th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    Awakening

  28. 28 sister AE Mar 18th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    There was only one tree I was feeling for this one.

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/stand-sure.html

  29. 29 sister AE Mar 18th, 2008 at 12:43 am

    On the other hand, I guess there was another tree in me after all…

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-night-only.html

  30. 30 Kate Mar 18th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    This came out of the last two prompts; trees and repetition both grow poems, and they’re both tough. The seaker isn’t a tree, but she’s kin to one.

    It’s here, and thanks.

  31. 31 Bean Mar 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    This might be a little unusual, but then again, so am I.

    http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/03/be-tree.html

  32. 32 Melanie-bd Mar 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am

    Somehow the poems got mixed up. This my poem for Read Write Poem.

    my poem

    Thanks for your comments on “Mourning Dove” but that poem was for Weekend Wordsmith. lol

    Melanie-bd

  33. 33 Lirone Mar 19th, 2008 at 4:31 am

    Here’s mine

    tree life

    A fun prompt to work with

  34. 34 jillypoet Mar 19th, 2008 at 8:42 am

    Mother as Oak Tree

    This was probably one of my favorite prompts of all time. I love trees. I love imagining I am something else, or imagining what something else might say.

  35. 35 Pam Mar 19th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Here is my poem, Tree Song.

  36. 36 SB Mar 21st, 2008 at 1:15 am

    Another Snapshot Poem, Spring Equinox

  37. 37 odessa Mar 21st, 2008 at 2:45 am

    here’s my small poem, almost like 2 haikus:

    http://makeshiftwords.blogspot.com/2008/03/spring-17th-street.html

  38. 38 Jeques Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Hello Everyone!

    I’m new, gautami tripathy guided me here.

    Here’s my contribution:

    http://jeques.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/be-the-best-that-you-could-be/

    I wish you well.

    ~ Jeques

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