get your poem on #30

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Posted by Christine on 06.09.2008 at 12:01 am
Posted Under: Christine, Get Your Poem On

1. gautami tripathy - June 9, 2008

Wow! It feels good to be the first one!

Here is mine:

rot

2. art predator - June 9, 2008

I wrote this one “I Want to be That Man” a while back after observing someone on the phone in an airport; poet/composer Swedish Emil Brikha produced an mp3 with original music which is on my site too:

http://artpredator.wordpress.com

3. Nathan - June 9, 2008

Mine is called “Storm’s Eye.” It’s at http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/storms-eye

4. AnthonyNorth - June 9, 2008

You’ll find mine in this post:

Tony On Rubbish, Voyeur, Dictators

Enjoy.

5. totomai - June 9, 2008

here’s mine…

http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/06/still.html

6. Jo - June 9, 2008

Here’s mine. Round to read later. Great prompt, Christine.

http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/untitled-2/

7. durable pigments - June 9, 2008

Here’s what I came up with for this week: “Afterward” at
http://durablepigments.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/30-afterward/

8. Donald Harbour - June 9, 2008

I hope that everyone had a serendipitous weekend!
http://woodennickel.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/serendipity/

9. Jessica - June 9, 2008

Hi everyone! Here’s mine:

http://9to5poet.com/2008/06/09/lilacs-never-last-long-enough/

10. Christine - June 9, 2008

Greetings from Georgia, USA.
Love song to the moon

11. Mad Kane - June 9, 2008

Thanks for the inspiration. My latest verse Sleepless In Bayside was inspired in part by your prompt.

12. lissa - June 9, 2008

great prompt. here’s mine: http://flyturtlefly.com/2008/06/05/when-you-look-at-me-what-do-you-see/

13. When I watch you at Magpie Days - June 9, 2008

[...] You can catch other poetic glimpses here. [...]

14. Jennifer - June 9, 2008

I’ve been “watching” my once-young parents in old photos lately - here’s one glimpse.

http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/06/when-i-watch-you/

15. Nicole Nicholson - June 9, 2008

Reposted from my comment on the original prompt:

“I like the prompt! Here’s my poem, called “When I Watch You”:

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/04/when-i-watch-you/

When I shut my eyes…I ended up in the head of Graham Dalton from “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”. Weird, I know, but here it is.”

-Nicole

16. Tiel Aisha Ansari - June 9, 2008

When I Watch You

17. One More Believer - June 9, 2008

.. definitely enjoyed the discovery of lucille clifton’s miss rosie and the link to her “my hips…” buoyancy

18. Tina Trivett - June 9, 2008

Good prompt…very fun :)

Here’s mine…

Free

http://tinatrivett.blogspot.com/2008/06/free.html

19. Noah - June 9, 2008

Therapist

20. twitches - June 9, 2008

Sorta inspired by the prompt, which I just read today:

Ashes to Ashes

21. Rob Kistner - June 10, 2008

Morning Gold

22. senzatema - June 10, 2008

yowza i’ve missed two weeks! wow, time goes by fast…

here’s my stuff this week

i also went ahead and wrote one for last week, so that’s up just pre-this-one at my blog just in case you were interested.

23. jillypoet - June 10, 2008

I Touched Him

A poem about looking, or not looking, at my son. Does anyone else ever write a poem, then happen to check in for the prompt and find they match? I love coincidence!

24. ...deb - June 10, 2008

Here’s mine, a watching from several years ago, on an early morning downtown street.

25. nibblepoems - June 10, 2008

My first, and not last, get your poem on:

http://nibblepoems.wordpress.com/poems/

26. Wine-dark Sea - June 10, 2008

it’s been excruciating to watch — #19

27. Peter - June 11, 2008

psalm:

http://slowreads.com/versePsalm.html

28. Rachel - June 11, 2008

Once again, I haven’t managed to finish a draft using the readwritepoem prompt, but I’ve posted another poem in my series of Torah poems:

Shine
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/06/this-weeks-poem-shine-bha-alotkha.html

29. Lirone - June 12, 2008

Here’s mine. I was originally reluctant to tackle this prompt because I thought I would just end up brooding about my ex, but in fact it’s about someone completely different:

When I watch you (terza rima)

30. Lynn - June 15, 2008

Here’s mine…this was a fun one!
http://lfisher-writewhereiam.typepad.com/write_where_i_am/2008/06/and-more-about-the-garden.html

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