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get your poem on #24

Published by Tom April 28th, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Tom.

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34 Responses to “get your poem on #24”

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  1. 1 Tiel Aisha Ansari Apr 28th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    Jargon it is…

    SQL Triolet

  2. 2 Mad Kane Apr 28th, 2008 at 1:00 am

    Thanks for the inspiration. I’ve used some legal jargon in my “Ode to An Ill-Tempered Felon” limerick.

  3. 3 J Apr 28th, 2008 at 2:07 am

    I wrote a haiku about education financing.

  4. 4 Brian Apr 28th, 2008 at 4:02 am

    I wrote a love poem about a car.

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/dpfe/

  5. 5 Carole Apr 28th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    I’ve written an acrostic using words from the discipline in which I was originally trained. It’s also#24 for NaPoWriMo - yes, I am a little behind.

    Chemical Acrostic

  6. 6 Peter Apr 28th, 2008 at 6:57 am

    Great prompt! But I didn’t use it.

    http://slowreads.com/verseFaceRock.html

  7. 7 sister AE Apr 28th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    I have a whole list of jargon words that just didn’t work for this one. I guess someday there will be another poem that uses them.

    I don’t usually write about my work, but this is all about my everyday (well, Monday through Friday, anyway).

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

  8. 8 senzatema Apr 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    this may not be “jargon” technically, but it’s about my job.

  9. 9 senzatema Apr 28th, 2008 at 9:04 am

    i’m LAME.

    http://ametaznes.livejournal.com/14986.html

  10. 10 totomai Apr 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    about petri dish… and bacteria culture

    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/04/palm-sized-garden.html

  11. 11 T Apr 28th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    http://poetrydaily.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/nightly-passage/

  12. 12 chicklegirl Apr 28th, 2008 at 10:42 am

    This was such a great prompt; it made me dig deep!

    History’s Failing

  13. 13 Rachel Apr 28th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    I’ve been writing other poems in recent weeks, rather than responding to these prompts, but this week I’m back with a prompt response!

    Brachot 35a
    http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/04/brachot-35a-we.html

  14. 14 Leigh Lear Apr 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    here’s mine, it’s about my daughter and her constant texting.
    text

  15. 15 T Apr 28th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    Here is one about tree structures… with both real and made up jargon:
    Excerpt from the foliations of the hortolobe

  16. 16 Kate Apr 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Great idea! And a dangerous one for me. I love unusual words. Loving words is the definition of poet, I know, but it’s a challenge to use oddball ones in ways that enhance and don’t just confuse, you’re absolutely right. I learned that in college, when I happily assumed a whole workshop would know what silage is. If you haven’t happened to grow up around dairy cows, chopped corn in a silo isn’t an every day sort of idea. :-) I’m hoping this one makes more sense.

    Here’s. some fun turning scientific classifications upside down. I made these up, but I tried to follow the Linnaean system.

    Following the other theme of the week, it’s a sonnet.

  17. 17 art predator Apr 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    here’s a (short!) poem filled with local place names and creatures–certainly jargon to the uninitiated!

    “celebrate”

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com

    i have another one about where i’m from also filled with local place names that i will put up tomorrow

  18. 18 Christine Apr 28th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    I wrote a bouts-rimés sonnet using the non-rhyming words listed in the post on sonnets, below. I also used jargon from sculpting, although I’m not a sculptor. Maybe now I’ll become one since I read up on sculpy words. Thanks, Tom!

    sand sculpting

  19. 19 UL Apr 29th, 2008 at 12:59 am

    mine is here @
    http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/04/life.html

  20. 20 Katherine Apr 29th, 2008 at 6:33 am

    On Baha’i Administration: A Sonnet of the Tongue-in-Cheek Variety

  21. 21 cocoloco Apr 29th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    Looks like there is a spiritual jargon going on.
    So, I went deep too.
    http://rscocoloco.blogspot.com

  22. 22 gautami tripathy Apr 29th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    ctrl/alt/del

  23. 23 Rob Kistner Apr 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    We has met the enemy and he is us - Pogo

  24. 24 Lirone Apr 29th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    I wrote a bout-rime sonnet using the rhyming set of words - it’s called

    Creativity

  25. 25 gkgirl Apr 29th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    i work in plumbing and heating…

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

  26. 26 Linda - Nickers and Ink Apr 30th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    This one is ABOUT jargon . . . . the kind I most want to avoid, but occasionally find my self using, when the darker side arises.

    MY MISSPEAK, at Nickers and Ink

    Blessings all,
    Linda
    Nickers and Ink

  27. 27 cocoloco Apr 30th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    I’m glad it is over!
    My ship sails away….
    Check my JARGON POEM from yesterday. An INDUSTRIAL LOVE POEM
    C’ya later, alligator, after a while Crocodile.
    It was a pleasure and a great way to squeeze the brain by extruding words, syllables and rhymes. GOOD WORK Y’ALL!

    http://rscocoloco.blogspot.com

  28. 28 jimmmaaa Apr 30th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    Here is my poem for # 24:

    We Are Down:

    http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-18-make-up-for-day-18.html

  29. 29 rel May 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Come to my operating room for a moment. ;)

    http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/05/anesthesia-jargon-laying-on-gurney.html

    Thanks,
    rel

  30. 30 Christina May 1st, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    New here….

    my first try!

    http://theoriginalcoffeecompanyonline.blogspot.com/2008/05/jargon-poetry.html

  31. 31 cocoloco May 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Oh well, no comments.
    No comments,
    It’s okay, I’ll take my pen and will write poems for those who can’t hear, who can’t read, who can’t feel but who would understand how trapped souls feel beneath their epidermis. Inner feelings crafted for those with scholar ears is irrelevant for those who can express them with soil in their fingernails.
    Poetry is a way to express what the soul feels beneath the layers of skin.
    Intellect is beyond that. Words will conglomerate and collide against each other as the ‘poem’ evolves. After all, what we do, say and write will remain as a vestige of our humanity, as a human being. Human enough to be able to use our brain and strike the keys on the keyboard aided by a Microsoft program.
    Thank God for Bill Gates!

    AHAM BRAHMASMI.

    Raul, you know who Sanchez

    Good Luck!

    Life is so, very short!

    I will read you on the other side.
    Chalo!

  32. 32 Beloved Dreamer-Melanie May 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    Afraid my mind is dead………

    my poem

    love-bd

  33. 33 Just someone May 3rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    Mine too… based on this (couldn’t leave the comment earlier)

  34. 34 jan May 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    Here’s mine:

    http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/05/psychology.html

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