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get your poem on #27

Published by Jill May 19th, 2008 in Get Your Poem On, Jill.

Did you come up with similes, metaphors or anything else this week? We want to know.

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  1. 1 art predator May 19th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    i was looking forward to doing a poem based on simile language play with my 4 year old but while that didn’t happen I did this experiment based on the poem “Primer” by Bob Hicok:

    http://artpredator.wordpress.com

    maybe the boy and i will get a simile poem up later in the week since that is something we love to do and never bother to write any of them down…

  2. 2 Mad Kane May 19th, 2008 at 12:39 am

    Thanks for the inspiration. My Musical Discord uses a bit of simile.

  3. 3 Crafty Green Poet May 19th, 2008 at 2:59 am

    well here’s mine:

    http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2008/05/keeper.html

  4. 4 Brian May 19th, 2008 at 3:01 am

    Good Monday y’all. My poem is a political satire complete with ‘like’ and ‘as’. I also recorded “Like a snowflake in a margarita…” which is the title and the first line of the poem.

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/snowflake/

  5. 5 totomai May 19th, 2008 at 4:25 am

    http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-poets-desk-during-winter.html

    i know all of you can relate to this one…

  6. 6 paisley May 19th, 2008 at 5:18 am

    this is a little something i posted earlier in the week,, and it happens to fit the prompt,, so i wanted to share it here…

    http://why-paisley.com/2008/05/15/quoting-frost/

  7. 7 Jo May 19th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    just saw the prompt and my latest fits the bill so

    http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/fishing/

    thanks.

  8. 8 Jennifer May 19th, 2008 at 6:09 am

    I wrote about my father’s hands.

    http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/05/my-fathers-hands/

  9. 9 Jessica May 19th, 2008 at 7:00 am

    Here’s my meditation on the color yellow.

  10. 10 bitchyangel May 19th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    here’s mine…

    pitchblack

  11. 11 Katherine May 19th, 2008 at 7:50 am

    Your language is telling me stories you never intended …

    Your Like is Showing

  12. 12 diatribalArts May 19th, 2008 at 8:25 am

    iii. Credo

  13. 13 sister AE May 19th, 2008 at 8:27 am

    It took me a long time to find the first simile but then it went quickly from there.

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

  14. 14 gautami tripathy May 19th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Not much it but…

    stoicism

  15. 15 Roberta May 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    Here is mine

    http://birdswordpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/p-a7-nyt-51708/

    I hope this works. I sent it from my phone.

    * * *
    Ed comment from Deb:
    It nearly worked…
    I added a slash p after “17″

  16. 16 Cassandra May 19th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Here’s my 2 cents…

    http://opheliablooming.blogspot.com/2008/05/sixteen.html

  17. 17 Christina May 19th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    As many people know, I am passionate about coffee! So here’s mine!
    http://theoriginalcoffeecompanyonline.blogspot.com/2008/05/coffee-poem.html
    Christina

  18. 18 carolee May 19th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    here’s mine. metaphors about a naked warrior. ladies, you know what i mean. (or maybe not. it got a little crazy with all the inuendo)

    remember, you’ll need the password. email me if you don’t have it. art [at] polkadotwitch [dot] com

  19. 19 jan May 19th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    well, i’m not sure this even works for this prompt, but i wrote it today…

    http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/04/mothers-lament.html

  20. 20 jan May 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    this is one i wrote last fall:

    http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-son.html

  21. 21 jan May 19th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    oops…i just wrote that last one in march. funny, march seems so far away now!!

  22. 22 Linda Jacobs May 19th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    Here’s mine. This was cool!

  23. 23 Tiel Aisha Ansari May 19th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Two short poems and a reflection on Simile and Metaphor

  24. 24 AnthonyNorth May 20th, 2008 at 3:00 am

    I’ve put mine in this post:

    The Policing Problem

    Enjoy.

  25. 25 senzatema May 20th, 2008 at 5:55 am

    wow so not as late as i thought i was….

    it’s under my shameless plug

  26. 26 senzatema May 20th, 2008 at 6:12 am

    crap…i made another post. silly. here’s a direct link.

    http://ametaznes.livejournal.com/15958.html

  27. 27 Regina Clare Jane May 20th, 2008 at 7:04 am

    Here is mine for today… was struggling with this prompt (I have no idea why) but yesterday, this happened…

    http://reginaclarejane.livejournal.com/66520.html

    Thanks!

  28. 28 jillypoet May 21st, 2008 at 9:27 am

    I hope I am not too late. This poem has been very troublesome! It all but stuck its tongue out at me. Seriously.

    Like an Old Bowl of Soup

  29. 29 durable pigments May 21st, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Brand-new member; hope I’m doing this right! Looking forward to meeting people. My piece: http://durablepigments.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/read-write-poem-27/

  30. 30 Read Write Poem May 21st, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    Welcome aboard, DP. We’re glad you found RWP. It might little while to get your blog up on the participant page, but we will! (We’re all volunteer around here, so sometimes it takes a little time.)

    Keep posting and visiting and enjoying poetry!

    ~Deb.

  31. 31 Rob Kistner May 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    The Fool

  32. 32 poetmouse May 23rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    Metaphor:

    http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/alone.html
    PoetMouse: Alone

  33. 33 Gemma May 24th, 2008 at 3:16 am

    OOOps! Suddenly realised I posted my poem in the wrong place! That’s what I get for rushing!

    I included a pic of mine to go with it!

    So here it is again!

    Gated Masks

  34. 34 Gemma May 25th, 2008 at 1:51 am

    Here is my 2nd response to this prompt.

    It is all about a regular visitor from the wild!

    In the world of one magpie

    Gemma

  1. 1 My father’s hands at Magpie Days Pingback on May 19th, 2008 at 6:08 am

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