Penelope, originally written as a pantoum, reworked as a sonnet.

I haven’t been here in awhile….but this one was fun!

http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/switcheroo.html

First I posted my first ever sestina, which was a reworking of an earlier poem. You can read this here:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/05/evening-in-malawi.html

Then I reworked the sestina as a haiku but I’ll post the link for that in a separate comment!

The haiku reworking of my sestina can be read here:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/06/haiku.html

I look forward to reading everyone else’s poems!

I also wrote my first ever ghazal recently and posted it here: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/05/moonstruck.html

Here mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/the-dance. It was a villanelle that become some stanzas based on renku. Let me add that I’ve just started to read about renku so “based on” is the phrase to remember.
This was fun. The sense of my two poems changed completely. Thanks for reading.

http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/round/

Thanks for the great prompt. I wrote a sestina called the “Land Of Sorrows” but in the form of two haiku per stanza.

Hello!

I rewrote one of my Chaucerian roundels, “Katie, Bar the Kitchen Door”, into a hay(na)ku chain entitled “Iraq”. You can find it here:

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/02/iraq/

-Nicole

What a fun post! And I am pleased with where it took me:

Beneath the Hawthorn

I’ve condensed one of my favourite poems into a haiku - interesting and challenging!

Valentine

I’ve revised a free verse into a villanelle

http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/06/poetic-transformation/

I wrote a ghazal, my second try at this form. For the theme I went to Rick Mobb’s site again, at Mine enemy grows older.

how your soul might leave your body

I take up the challenge and offer you:

notes on a conceptual poetry conference in Tucson May 28-31 written as a conceptual poem with the constraint that I copy word for word verbatum my notes…in 2 parts. Part 1 (days 1 & 2: Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Marjorie Perloff, Kenny Goldsmith, Craig Dworkin, etc) is posted now. Part 2 (Day 3: the above with Christian Bok and more) should be posted soon.

http://artpredator.wordpress.com

I’m a big fan of humorous verse and satire, so in that spirit: three variations (of decreasing length) of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. (lipogram, limerick, haiku) Definitely planning to use this prompt in the future for a more serious verse.

http://durablepigments.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/29-three-variations-on-sonnet-18/

Just a poem I wrote. But maybe I “mixed it up” by using art as inspiration?

http://bluehairedmary.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1817480/seen/

Here’s what I wrote most recently. I guess I “mixed it up” by using art as inspiration?

http://bluehairedmary.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/1817480/seen/

Ren…I went to protestpoem.org…I had something I wanted to submit, however I found the site submission form another commercial gimmick to get one to sign in and upgrade. There was advertising, gheez. I protest protestpoem.org…
Thanks for the invite, but no thanks…..

Comment from RWP: Donald, your experience is not the usual one. Please reply to Ren’s request for more information. We think you missed the right link.

Other readers: Please look at protestpoems.org yourself. It is a fine site in both the way it operates and the motives behind it!

That’s strange, Donald, and completely out of my own personal experience at protestpoems.org.

I submitted a poem and didn’t get any of that. It was very easy to do, without any of what you describe.

Hmmmm…did you use the link from here?

…deb

Hi Donald,

I have no idea what you are talking about! Please let me know what this is about. I have no commercial affiliations or advertising at all. Please let me know if someone has somehow hijacked my domain!

All the website offers is a place to sign up for emails for new protest actions. I have nothing to “upgrade” to, for goodness sake.

Please take another look at let me know what you see. This is disturbing!!

Are you looking at http://www.protestpoems.org? This is very important to me, so please do follow up on this!

Ren

I won’t have time to read other submissions until the weekend, but wanted to slip mine in sooner than later.

http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/06/walk-through-2-forms.html

And I decided to do it again. This was fun!

I took “Arizona, Remembered”, a poem of mine written in three stanzas of rhyme royal, and rewrote it as a hay(na)ku chain poem called “Desert”. See it here:

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/04/desert/

-Nicole

I didn’t manage to respond to the RWP prompt this week, but I did write the latest in my series of Torah poems:

Voice (Naso)
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/06/this-weeks-torah-poem-voice-naso.html

Hello,
This poem is untitled. I seem to have a lot of difficulty with titling my poems. Any help would be very welcome.
http://mandatoryhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-run-from-things-were-scared-of-from.html

Great prompt, Ren!

I don’t do much work in forms, so I didn’t have much to choose from. But I used an old sestina to make a group of cinquains.

The poem ended up rather depressing, just as a warning:

http://thisisonlytemporary.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/read-write-poem-6/

jack’s trek - an american sentence

My Father’s Killers