get your poem on #23

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1. Tiel Aisha Ansari - April 21, 2008

I wrote these a while back, but they’re so appropriate for this prompt I couldn’t resist.

Oil and Salt

2. Brian - April 21, 2008

For me the contrast was love/hate and Little Brian and Sable wanted a go.

http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/soul/

3. totomai - April 21, 2008

how does a parent feel when his child leave the world first than him?

http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/04/room-for-rent.html

an interesting prompt…

4. Wine-dark Sea - April 21, 2008

poem

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Edit added by Deb: That was weird. Rob was right. So I changed the link to Wine Dark Sea’s poem - I hope it is the right one…I have no idea what happened there!

5. Rob Kistner - April 21, 2008

Some how my first post got messed up with a Wine-Dark Sea post, and the link corrupted??

Contrasting Perspective

6. Gemma - April 21, 2008

Here is my effort.

It’s a bit odd, but wanted to try something different.

Fire and Rain

Gemma

7. Regina Clare Jane - April 21, 2008

I followed the prompt pretty strictly and this is what I came up with… thanks for a very interesting poetic device!

http://reginaclarejane.livejournal.com/59536.html

8. Christine - April 21, 2008

Here’s mine.Fractured love Thanks for playing along with something experimental!

9. cocoloco - April 21, 2008

Today’s post include the prompt: Vinegar and Olive oil.
http://rscocoloco.blogspot.com

10. gautami tripathy - April 21, 2008

I offer this:

sweetly soured

11. jillypoet - April 21, 2008

Christine! I loved. loved this prompt! It is just the thing I needed to begin writing about something difficult. Thanks! I will definitely try this technique again.

Comments/critique always welcome! One For the Record Books

12. Christine - April 21, 2008

Thanks, Jill! I’ve been trying it out myself. One other similar exercise from Pat Schneider that I’ve been playing with is to write two poems, then line them up one on top of the other, and number the lines, 1,2,3 down the page. Then write all the ones together, all the twos, and then all the threes. You can always go back and change waht doesn’t work. It reminds me a lot of Patchwork poems.

13. Katherine - April 21, 2008

An expat wakes in Malawi, having dreamed of New Mexico.

Emigrant

14. jan doble - April 21, 2008

i hope this fits in with the theme in the prompt:

http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/04/maybe.html

15. bitchyangel - April 21, 2008

something short..

voices

16. UL - April 21, 2008

Well, since I couldn’t stay up late, my husband posted the link at the wrong place for me!!

here it is again -

http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/04/detachment.html

17. paisley - April 21, 2008

for some reason this one was hard for me… i am not sure i like my piece.. i like the premise,, but i am not at all sure i pulled it off…..

the bitter and the sweet

18. Aud - April 21, 2008

This is the first time I have tried out a prompt. I’m new to poem writing and hope to learn more.
My post is at http://shortsweetpoems.com/?p=54

19. Derek - April 22, 2008

Another one! Wow, I’m smoking. Don’t take this one too seriously.

http://eatsbugs.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/dear-alice-42008/

20. Linda Jacobs - April 22, 2008

I’m late this week because my granddaughter visited for a couple days.

I really had fun with this and the resulting poem tickled me! This is definitely something I’ll have my poetry-writing students try.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Mine

21. pepektheassassin - April 22, 2008

A Study in Contrasts–Day 22 (Yes, I am hanging in there!) This is another based on a wonderful painting by Rick Mobbs called Tapestry. Can’t make a link, but just click on my name.

22. Vixen - April 22, 2008

Here is my effort for this weeks prompt:

http://vixensden.com/?p=464

23. senzatema - April 23, 2008

kind of thick, but i like it ok.

24. jan doble - April 23, 2008

senztema: yournlivejournal wouldn’t let me post my identity; so, i want to let you know i’ve posted the first comment re: this poem. jan

25. Revelations « This Girl Remembers - April 23, 2008

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26. This Girl Remembers - April 23, 2008

A little late to the party, but here’s mine:

http://thisgirlremembers.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/revelations/

I didn’t follow the prompt entirely faithfully as I didn’t alternate lines, but it certainly follows the spirit of the prompt. It’s good to write again.

27. Linda - Nickers and Ink - April 25, 2008

Here’s my study in contrasts:

FRIENDLY FIRE, at Nickers and Ink

Blessings all,
Linda
Nickers and Ink

28. Linda - Nickers and Ink - April 25, 2008

OK, I confess. I didn’t do the alternating lines either.

Instead, I wrote a series of haikus on a subject that’s a study in contrasts.
;-)

29. Rob Kistner - April 27, 2008

Irresponsible conspicuous consumption, and our ecosystem, do not mix! It is completely outrageous to think they ever could.


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