get your poem on #38
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A while ago Dana and Deb pimped promoted Twitter as a cool poetry-community-enhancing microblogging tool. Well, microblogging is pretty cool, but since Twitter has had a few reliability problems as of late we have moved over to identi.ca. Our identi.ca home is http://identi.ca/readwritepoem and that’s where you can find us and a few of our poetry pals creating and kibitzing. Come join us. Yes, it’s a distraction. But it is also a fun place to talk to each other about poetry. Or create poetry. (Blythe and Dana recently wrote a poem whilst “denting.” A dent is to identi.ca what a tweet is to Twitter.)
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OK, listen: Here’s a collaborative poem I wrote with my real-life friend Beth. It’s not smelly, but there are fish in it. Two different kinds. So it’s kinda smelly in a way:
orange roughy
This was a smell-based poem I wrote a while back: Frangipani
Here’s a poem about smells: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/08/rainy-scents.html
mine is a 315experiment poem from 2002 about night blooming jasmine, jungle & jaguar…I learned last night how to recorded with music but haven’t figured out how to post it yet on my wordpress blog!
http://artpredator.wordpress.com (click here–if you do my name you get an image of my son!)
and please do join us in writing this month of August at 315am! info on my blog or at http://www.315experiment.com (i think that’s right)
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/how-to-decide-more
Enjoy.
It has smell of eternal love:
yellowed piee of paper
Piece..
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/hunting-jungle/
A poem called “Mating Rituals” and how scent attracts.
Here’s mine Theology
the password is: porcupine
Note to the mods: I’m switching over to WordPress for my poetry and religious writing. The LiveJournal will be exclusively for my random personal crap from now on. My RWP buddies don’t really need to be bothered with updates on my lactose intolerance or lack of money.
Autobiography, Written In Scent
Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/exhaust-fumes-and-french-fries-revised
Forty-four years past and counting.
That Smell.
due to bad weather still in touch with cyberspace… now off to smell the real version of the smell described in this poem
Been quiet for a few weeks, but I’m baaaack with something smelly:
Essence
My nose told a story of a day at the beach….
-Nicole
I love how many people think collaboration is a monkey, given our poll results.
An Olfactory Meditation
Probably not a poem.
I don’t know what it is, or might become.
Any critiques, guidance, advice welcome.
I actually made myself a little ill writing *THIS ONE* .
Here’s my stinky poem about my house, cat, and husband.
There’s a little preface about my new journal cover, but I promise the poem is there, on the bottom.
Since my son is leaving for college soon, I have babies and children on the brain, and those kinds of smells. No, not diapers this time!
Hopeful scents
I was ACTUALLY tempted to pick MONKEY on the poll, because there were times when a poem sounded sane and then ended up sounding as crazy as monkeys. Nevertheless, I never get bored with collaborative works.
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I do not have a writing partner, actually, no one knows i write. That said, i created a poem about smell…the most anticipated smell i can think of right now! sorry i had to skip the collaboration part, it sounds fun.
waiting to exhale
jorc
My scent will linger in your nostrils pervading your dreams and haunting your waking hours.
And here’s the link
http://wildgeesecall.blogspot.com/search/label/Bittersweet
Yea for all our smelly poems! Here is my contribution — it’s a little light on the scents, but I did that to get your imagination working. It’s so on purpose.
Vespa tropica
a collaboration with Christine, thanks Blythe.
http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/collaborationon-smell/
Hi, and here’s my link to the co-po Jo and I just wrote. all kinds of scents to ponder.
http://tinyurl.com/6jjxqw
I’m writing a collab with my sweetie. Will be posted soon.
Well, here is my second offering. I hope you all like it.
The Essence of You
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/14993.html
Here is mine with J. I. (though still a draft). I find it kind of challenging, yet interesting to work with someone who primarily writes prose.
http://davidnotes.com/2008/01/15/mother/