get your poem on #28
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I imagined Glass People
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/memorial-day/
Fair warning, my poem makes no sense.
I don’t think mine any sense either!
running away with it
I found myself drifting.
Happy Memorial Day to those living in the States; happy poetry day to everyone! It might be kind of slow around here today, holiday and all, so check back through the week…
Mine neither, Brian, but here goes.
I played with form a bit too. And I may use it (the form) for something else in the future.
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/05/green-sun-ululation.html
About heroism, terrorism, death, destruction — and rock & roll:
The Legend
A tale of deep love, great loss, powerful memories, passion, sensuality, and business trips:
Not Since Then
#18
Okay, this isn’t very imaginative, but the subject matter got my imagination going.
Eyes
I wrote to Rick mobb’s painting. If you ever need help jump starting your imagination, visit his site, Mine Enemy Grows Older. Every Thursday he offers a painting fresh off his canvas for poets and story tellers to describe or interpret.
In the Book of Good Love
I have been writing poems to inhabit very specific public places: so far, a city bus, a subway, a reservoir, and a veterans’ memorial park. Unless and until some public poetry commission decides to bring them to life, I think it’s fair to say that these are imaginary poems:
http://www.vianegativa.us/series/public-poems/
hi, everyone!
as many of you know, i traveled this weekend and wasn’t online at all. i’m working on catching up with reading your pieces now!
carolee
i didn’t have a chance to finish writing something new–for the prompt or not–as we were at Lightning in a Bottle music festival camping and time evaporated!!
so I posted something older, in recognition of Memorial Day: for those who have lost their lives to war, and with prayers for peace
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
(and a reminder that sometimes if you lcikc the link you get a picture of my child..try again please!!)
http://theoriginalcoffeecompanyonline.blogspot.com/2008/05/garontromom.html
http://theoriginalcoffeecompanyonline.blogspot.com/2008/05/paradise.html
I wrote 2 poems this week…. the first is really as close the prompt as my feeble brain and talentless poetry ideas would take me….
The second was because I needed to write it!
Thanks for reading!
Christina
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/special-species.html
PoetMouse: Evolution
Here’s mine. It’s called “Seven Bruised Views” at http://disorder1313.wordpress.com
Thanks for reading it.
You’ll find mine in this post:
Tony On Poetic, Mars, Religion
Enjoy
I haven’t written for quite a while, but I managed a (rather short) contribution this week
Underrunners
being that I in reality woke up to a typically rainy day in my neck of the woods I instead imagined or revisited brighter days
and the link!
http://missmays.blogspot.com/
Here’s mine:
Kraken
Amazing what dark things can lurk in our imaginations…
(sorry if the link doesn’t work straight away - the post should be up in a few hours)
Here’s my trip…After the Surgery, I Ride A Cow Home From Vermont
Life decided to take control of my mind. A stonewall of indifference and apathy looms over any poetic voyage. I believe I’ll rest under a Tulip Tree for the moment, at least until the wall falls down. I like your neck.
Carolee….Wonder of wonders, my indifference turned to interest, apathy was warmed by empathy, and the stonewall was a product of imagination. I offer up “Lost Springs”. Hello Cracklin’ Rose!
An Academic Analysis: 1900 years after the pyroclastic flows
faltering i almost did not… brush strokes
Here is my response:
Learning Centres
Gemma
http://mandatoryhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/05/fall-of-sparrow.html