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get your poem on #20

Published by Jill March 31st, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Jill.

So what did you hear this week? We want to know!

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We hope you took the time to write something based on snippets of overheard conversations , but we won’t mind reading any of your inspirations.

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  1. 1 Tiel Aisha Ansari Mar 31st, 2008 at 12:02 am

    Strange conversation, this…

    0,0

  2. 2 Jo Mar 31st, 2008 at 12:36 am

    http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/scenes/

    A fragment before a play.

  3. 3 sister AE Mar 31st, 2008 at 12:37 am

    I got started with something I heard on the radio.

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/03/overheard.html

  4. 4 Crafty Green Poet Mar 31st, 2008 at 1:38 am

    Here’s mine on my Over Forty Shades blog:

    http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2006/12/polish-for-beginners.html

  5. 5 totomai Mar 31st, 2008 at 1:47 am

    inside a church…

    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/03/54.html

  6. 6 art predator Mar 31st, 2008 at 2:14 am

    the post about NaPoWriMo that i “listened” to about writing in short forms plus I recently visited a hokku site plus listening to the wind in the trees howling plus listening to last week’s go green prompt and poems rattling around in my head still led me to the following 17 syllables:

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com

  7. 7 gautami tripathy Mar 31st, 2008 at 2:34 am

    Not exactly this week…

    last journey

  8. 8 paisley Mar 31st, 2008 at 5:49 am

    i cheated this week,, but just couldnt help it… i love this little conversational poem,, and i just had to share it with you ….

    the gossips

  9. 9 seb Mar 31st, 2008 at 6:38 am

    Platform 4 Trivia

  10. 10 Christine Mar 31st, 2008 at 10:58 am

    I heard the funniest conversations while driving my teenage son and his friends around. They all talked about their parents as if I wasn’t there, as I was secretely laughing and mentally recording. I didn’t use these conversations as the premise of this prose poem, but I did use a few sentences my son said. All week I’d stop while we were talking and say, “wait, I’ve got to write that down.” Now he thinks he’s a conversational savant!

    Spring Cleaning

    PS
    mine is a prose poem, only the third I’ve ever written. Please feel free to offer suggestions for improvement.

  11. 11 pepektheassassin Mar 31st, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Overheard during an hour of TV. (I don’t get out much)

  12. 12 pepektheassassin Mar 31st, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    I forgot the “Prose” part of the prompt. O well. And I still can’t manage to make a direct link. Please just click on my name. And check out the fantastic short video below my RWP post. It will blow you away!

  13. 13 bitchyangel Mar 31st, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    overheard in a locker room…

    any suggestion for me to get better… very much welcome..

    please be gentle with your criticism since it’s my first time.. :-P
    http://bitchyangel.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/there-goes-prose-poem/

  14. 14 Read Write Poem Mar 31st, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    Hi bitchyangel,

    We’re glad you’re here; thanks for participating.

    We’re not a critique group, so you shouldn’t be getting any criticism - unless you specifically ask for it on your site and your post. Any critique that you might get, upon your specific request, should be very respectful.

    You might want to read the “code of conduct” page - we all should probably, from time to time - so you know what you might expect of your fellow-poetry-lovers who participate at RWP.

    Glad you dove into our poetry-play-pool. Enjoy!

  15. 15 bitchyangel Mar 31st, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    yay!! thanks…

  16. 16 Linda Jacobs Mar 31st, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    Prose was hard for me! I hate the way it looks on the page but gave it a try, anyway. Thanks for forcing me to expand!

    Overheard

  17. 17 jillypoet Mar 31st, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    Using lines I hear wrong helps make me feel not so crazy! I mis-hear people all the time! I’d like to think it’s because I’m always deep in thought. Those who know me know better!

    Prose poems are indeed tough to master! I kept wanting to cut my lines, the urge to stop going across the page was fierce!

    Did You Make a Date to Join the Circus?

  18. 18 Leigh Lear Mar 31st, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    so this was inspired by conversations with my daughter and her friend this week.

    Parenting101

  19. 19 Leigh Lear Mar 31st, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    let’s see if that worked.

    Parenting101

  20. 20 Blythe Mar 31st, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Jill! Your prompt helped burst my most recent (rather dreadful and malignant) writer’s block bubble.

    (Are we OK with mixing metaphors? Yes? Good.)

    Anyhow, thanks, and here’s my prose poem draft:

    bike ride at dusk, alone

  21. 21 cocoloco Apr 1st, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Yikes,
    i don’t have ablog or a web page, so I leave my mark here.
    (first timer).

    I could write a book of memories unforgettable
    just one of those things to think on a misty
    morning spring.
    RS

  22. 22 Jessica Apr 1st, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    I’m late and a little off prompt, because it’s hard to hear people talk on the bus with my headphones on.

    Reading Material While Riding the Bus — A Running List

  23. 23 odessa Apr 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 am

    Mine is late too. It started as a prose poem and I ended up cutting off 80% of it. (I think I’m already stressed out over NaPoWriMo.)

    Anyways, here it is:

    across the bridge

  24. 24 Crystal Apr 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 am

    I’m pregnant with poetry… here is baby #1

    on the drive

    http://skydiving-poetry.blogspot.com/

  25. 25 gkgirl Apr 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    this was what i heard…
    or imagined…
    or a little of both…

    http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2008/04/post-poem-april-two-overheard.html

  26. 26 Regina Clare Jane Apr 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 am

    It’s so nice to have discovered Read Write Poem and re-connect with some of my old poet friends from Poetry Thursday!

    My first contribution here and I hope the link works!

    http://reginaclarejane.livejournal.com/54755.html

  27. 27 Allyson Apr 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    I didn’t think I was going to find anything for this prompt, and then yesterday, something perfect happened.

    http://amwpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-day-3-professors.html

  28. 28 Pip Apr 3rd, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    Here’s mine, well, sort of …

    http://pipssqueaks.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-3-eyedropping.html

  29. 29 AnnieH Apr 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    just found you all…delighted!!
    Will be starting, just a little late. Give me a day.

    http://www.tidingsofmagpies.blogspot.com

  30. 30 art predator Apr 4th, 2008 at 12:20 am

    for jillypoet

    hey maybe you’ll fix your blog so i can comment there rather than at readwritepoem!

    “i wonder how she does not fall over from the weight of her question” !!

    please please please keep carrying the tight rope…for me!

    i feel this way sometimes as a burner. i’m getting my haired bleached and dyed pink and orange again next week and having a fresh paint job is much like that.

    i love this

    or hey just put your posts in a comment on my blog!!

  31. 31 mary Apr 5th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    I was inspired by the random word generator and am trying to catch up with NaPoWriMo! Here’s my contribution:

    April Rain

  32. 32 Annie Apr 6th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    I’m quite in awe of the poetry harvesting. It truly is like a kaleidoscope of different perceptions. Don’t know that I’ll be able to write a poem/day. Makes me laugh to think of their faces at work if I stopped for a pot of poetry…! I’ve been trying to add a poem/day, in addition to my own, of a work I’ve not read or fallen across yet. If I had a glass of wine I would toast your collective brilliance. Hope you’ll settle for my cuppa joe! So glad I found you all. AnnieH

  33. 33 Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Apr 6th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    My contribution for said prompt :D
    College Musings

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