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get your poem on #25

Published by Juliet May 5th, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Juliet.

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27 Responses to “get your poem on #25”

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  1. 1 art predator May 5th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    mine is “impressions from the shadowside”

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com

  2. 2 Whirling Dervish May 5th, 2008 at 1:23 am

    Here is a funny little thing..

    I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s poems this week!

    http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/brain-swap.html

  3. 3 gautami tripathy May 5th, 2008 at 1:28 am

    Sci-fi?

    Well, why not!

    clawing crawlies

  4. 4 Brian May 5th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    Hello everyone. This is a song I recorded after returning from the deep space mining colonies. It’s called “Black Holes and a ship called ‘Desire’”.

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/desire/

  5. 5 Crafty Green Poet May 5th, 2008 at 4:03 am

    Here’s mine, I hope it is science fiction….
    http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/05/planet-earth-2020.html

    I look forward to reading everyone else’s later, thanks for joining in!

    Juliet

  6. 6 Linda Jacobs May 5th, 2008 at 6:11 am

    I actually had fun doing this. I used the rhyming words suggested in an earlier post and wrote a sonnet. This is as sci-fi-y as I could get.

    Science Fiction

  7. 7 Carolee May 5th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    gave it a try and had a lot of fun. here it is!

  8. 8 paisley May 5th, 2008 at 7:30 am

    i had to veer off prompt a little as sci fi is not my thing…

    screamin’ banshee

  9. 9 Rachel May 5th, 2008 at 7:32 am

    Not a science fiction poem, alas; but I’ve returned to my project of writing a poem arising out of the Torah portion of the week (er — I suppose the Bible looks like science fiction to some folks? *g*) and here’s my contribution to that project:

    Shall (Emor)
    http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/05/this-weeks-port.html

  10. 10 AnthonyNorth May 5th, 2008 at 7:35 am

    You’ll find mine in this post. Enjoy.

    How Not To Write #1

  11. 11 chicklegirl May 5th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    I loved the concept of scifaiku!

    If Dogs Ruled Earth

  12. 12 Cassandra May 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    This is quite strange for me, but nevertheless…

    haiku for the future

  13. 13 Christina May 5th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    Here is the link!
    http://theoriginalcoffeecompanyonline.blogspot.com/2008/05/poetry-contribution.html

  14. 14 totomai May 5th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    mine is about lab equipment

    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/05/lab-life.html

  15. 15 Tiel Aisha Ansari May 5th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    A bouts rimes sonnet for last year’s Westercon: Drygulching on Mars

  16. 16 jimmmaaa May 5th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    Here is my poem for Get Your Poem on #25:

    Another Deep-Space Transmission

    http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-deep-space-transmission-he.html

  17. 17 Christine May 5th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    This is a prose poem I posted last Thursday, kind of on the surreal side.
    an egg of despair

  18. 18 One More Believer May 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    first timer on get your poem… scifi poem is too interesting not to make some sorta attempt at poetry… awash

  19. 19 sister AE May 6th, 2008 at 12:51 am

    I don’t have a sci-fi poem ready right now, but I do have a poem to share anyway!

    http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/05/poppies.html

  20. 20 Rob Kistner May 6th, 2008 at 3:32 am

    Distant Farewell

  21. 21 Rob Kistner May 6th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    Here is a second SciFi piece based upon “Distant Farewell”, my first contribution above: Phantasmagoria

  22. 22 Katherine May 6th, 2008 at 7:51 am

    Pilgrimage to the holiest place in the galaxy:

    Hajj

  23. 23 senzatema May 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am

    this was fun!

    “Passage”

    http://ametaznes.livejournal.com/15459.html

  24. 24 Linda - The Mane Point May 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Hope I’m not too late!

    Blessings all,
    Linda

    A STROLL THAT’S DROLL

  25. 25 Wine-dark Sea May 9th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    The Void

  26. 26 Wine-dark Sea May 9th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    The Void …is here.

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