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get your poem on #21

Published by Deb April 7th, 2008 in Deb, Get Your Poem On.

It’s post time at Read Write Poem, this week about aunts you have know, or others - familiar or unfamiliar.

Or maybe you wrote about something else entirely. We care less about what got you started than reading what you wrote. Actually, we do like to hear what got you started. We like all things poetry-related, and then some.

So get your poem on! (One link per comment please, so you don’t get stuck in the spam filter.) And enjoy another week of original work by this poetry-clan. Check back through the week as folks add links and look for a new column Thursday.

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  1. 1 Tiel Aisha Ansari Apr 7th, 2008 at 12:02 am

    Relative Terms

  2. 2 Mad Kane Apr 7th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    Thanks very much for the inspiration. Here’s my Crazy Aunts.

  3. 3 sister AE Apr 7th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    I wrote this one:

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/04/aunt.html

  4. 4 jimmaaa Apr 7th, 2008 at 12:39 am

    Here’s mine called Aunt Ada:

    http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-2.html

  5. 5 Pip Apr 7th, 2008 at 1:04 am

    I’ve written about aunts before. Here’s another poem on a different subject:

    http://pipssqueaks.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-7-healing.html

  6. 6 paisley Apr 7th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    i did so enjoy this one.. at first i just couldnt imagine what to write about… and then it hit me….
    we do in fact have a strange old bird in the family…..

  7. 7 gautami tripathy Apr 7th, 2008 at 2:02 am

    I wrote about the Greatest aunt in the Universe! Guess who!

    Wicked Witch

  8. 8 Jessica Apr 7th, 2008 at 6:55 am

    I’m really looking forward to reading about everyone’s aunts. Here’s mine:

    Visiting Crystal

  9. 9 Linda Jacobs Apr 7th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    I had to go to a funeral out-of-town at the end of last week so didn’t check the prompt for this week until yesterday. I was tickled to see that it was “aunt” because I had just written a poem while visiting and talking with my Aunt Dotty.

  10. 10 gkgirl Apr 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    whoops…i posted in the wrong place…

    here is my poem for aunts…

    http://itsacanadiangeek.blogspot.com/2008/04/post-poem-april-seven-aunts.html

  11. 11 chicklegirl Apr 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Fun prompt! Aunt Nancy’s paddle

  12. 12 SB Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am

    I didn’t post an aunt poem — but this is my favorite so far of my NaPoWriMo poems: What’s In My Journal

  13. 13 SB Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:22 am

    And — I’ve made a list of prompts for NaPoWriMo, and am posting links to the poems made from them, here: NaPoWriMo Prompts

  14. 14 Christine Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    I wrote about my grandmother, Midge. Deb, I enjoyed the links to all the poems about aunts your provided.

    My Grandma Midge

  15. 15 art predator Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:49 am

    This is a new one, fresh from last Thursday! While not an aunt, he is small and familiar–I wrote about my son and the

    “Preschool Share Day Blues”

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com

  16. 16 Regina Clare Jane Apr 7th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Here is mine for today… aunts of a different sort!

    http://reginaclarejane.livejournal.com/55937.html

    So nice to see everyone again!

  17. 17 Leigh Lear Apr 7th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    here’s mine, inspired by the tradition of my mom and her sisters making homemade tortellinis for all the holidays.
    love knots

  18. 18 Allyson Apr 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Here’s one not about aunts specifically, but about family. Sort of.

    http://amwpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/04/belated-napowrimo-day-5.html

  19. 19 Melanie Apr 7th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    Like T.S. Eliot, I also have an Aunt Helyn, except that she’s spelled differently. :)

    http://melstra.livejournal.com/160272.html

  20. 20 Linda - Nickers and Ink Apr 7th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    You’ll never believe what I found in the attic . . . and what happened to my dear Aunt Mae.

    http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/caught-to-quick-rhymed-retelling-of.html

    Blessings all,
    Linda
    Nickers and Ink

  21. 21 Noah Apr 7th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Giver

    and

    Aunt

  22. 22 Bluebethley Apr 7th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Hello, all. Here’s my poem “I See My Aunt” at http://bethandwriting.blogspot.com/ Thanks for posting the idea. I’m trying to write a poem a day for NaPoWriMo, and it’s good to be a part of this community too. Hi from Bluebethley

  23. 23 seashelllz Apr 7th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    http://seashelllz.livejournal.com/97069.html

  24. 24 senzatema Apr 8th, 2008 at 5:48 am

    it’s my first time at readwritepoem

    here’s my Aunt poem…

  25. 25 Annie Apr 8th, 2008 at 7:40 am

    “Mt Auntie Em and Uncle Doyle lived in a big white farmhouse…”

    done did it!! Love everyone’s works. AnnieH

    http://www.tidingsofmagpies.blogspot.com

  26. 26 Blythe Apr 10th, 2008 at 12:48 am

    Just a seedling of an “aunt” poem:

    “mother’s baby sister”

  27. 27 jan doble Apr 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Not an ‘aunt’ poem, just my 10th NaPoWriMo entry:

    http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/04/lavender-carnation.html

  28. 28 Robin Reagler Apr 10th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Here’s one from a Writers in the Schools student called “Aunt Ida’s House.”

    http://witsblog.org/2007/06/05/aunt-idas-house/

  29. 29 Edward S. Gault Apr 10th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    I wasn’t going to use this yet, because it could also be a Thanksgiving Poem as well. But you guys are worth it.

  30. 30 mary Apr 12th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    One of these days, I’ll actually use the prompt! Here’s my latest:

    http://bluehairedmary.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1805639/another-april-poem/

    I’d love any feedback!

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