get your poem on #28

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30 Responses to “get your poem on #28”

  1. 1 Tiel Aisha Ansari

    I imagined Glass People

  2. 2 Brian

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/memorial-day/

    Fair warning, my poem makes no sense. :)

  3. 3 gautami tripathy

    I don’t think mine any sense either!

    running away with it
    ;)

  4. 4 Liza Lee Miller

    I found myself drifting.

  5. 5 Read Write Poem

    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…

  6. 6 ...deb

    Mine neither, Brian, but here goes.

  7. 7 sister AE

    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

  8. 8 Rob Kistner

    About heroism, terrorism, death, destruction — and rock & roll:

    The Legend

  9. 9 Rob Kistner

    A tale of deep love, great loss, powerful memories, passion, sensuality, and business trips:

    Not Since Then

  10. 10 Wine-dark Sea

    #18

  11. 11 Linda Jacobs

    Okay, this isn’t very imaginative, but the subject matter got my imagination going.

    Eyes

  12. 12 Christine

    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

  13. 13 Dave

    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/

  14. 14 carolee

    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

  15. 15 art predator

    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!!)

  16. 16 Christina

    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

  17. 17 poetmouse
  18. 18 Nathan

    Here’s mine. It’s called “Seven Bruised Views” at http://disorder1313.wordpress.com

    Thanks for reading it.

  19. 19 AnthonyNorth

    You’ll find mine in this post:

    Tony On Poetic, Mars, Religion

    Enjoy

  20. 20 Catherine

    I haven’t written for quite a while, but I managed a (rather short) contribution this week
    Underrunners

  21. 21 missmays

    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

  22. 22 missmays
  23. 23 Lirone

    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)

  24. 24 jillypoet
  25. 25 Donald Harbour

    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.

  26. 26 Donald Harbour

    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!

  27. 27 diatribalArts
  28. 28 One More Believer

    faltering i almost did not… brush strokes

  29. 29 Gemma

    Here is my response:

    Learning Centres

    Gemma

  30. 30 Felicity

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