get your poem on #40

Were you in the moment to write this week’s poem? Whether you wrote haiku, tanka or anything else, in the moment or not, leave a link here to your blog and your poem so we can all read it.

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Posted by Juliet on 08.18.2008 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Get Your Poem On, Juliet , , , , , , , , ,

1. gautami tripathy - August 18, 2008

That eternal moment in our life:

plunging in the tunneled abyss

2. chicklegirl - August 18, 2008

It was a sad moment, but the first inspiration I’ve had to write in a while:

Frank’s Farewell

3. artpredator - August 18, 2008

5 inspired by my SF roadtrip last weekend to WordPress’s “camp” for bloggers!

http://artpredator.wordpress.com

4. Nathan - August 18, 2008

Here is a moment from Saturday: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/712-pm-aug-16

5. Crafty Green Poet - August 18, 2008

Here’s mine, not haiku as you might expect, but still ‘in the moment’:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/08/suburban-garden.html

6. AnthonyNorth - August 18, 2008

You’ll find mine in this post:

http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/tony-on-big-wax-more

Enjoy.

7. Blue Periwinkles « Maekitso’s Café - August 18, 2008

[...] for the RWP Prompt - Get Your Poem on #40 [...]

8. Brad Frederiksen - August 18, 2008

Hi everyone. My offering this week is a Haiku moment.

http://maekitso.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/blue-periwinkles/

Cheers,
Brad

9. Jack - August 18, 2008

I often write haiku and senryu, but I tried specifically to capture “moments” in these: http://m0nkeyboy.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/moments-fragments/

10. Right here at Magpie Days - August 18, 2008

[...] More moments here. [...]

11. Jennifer - August 18, 2008

I try to get in the moment here

http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/08/right-here/

12. durable pigments - August 18, 2008

Difficult week here–didn’t have a chance to do the assignment. Sharing this older piece below, in part because it seems relevant to the assignment (I was SO in the moment during the event described at the beginning of the piece), and in part because I was recently reminded of this, seeing a friend’s photograph of the bats flying from the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin.

Sunday Night at the Alligator Grill

13. Donald Harbour - August 18, 2008

A HaikuSatin

14. Annamari - August 18, 2008

Here is mine. It was a good excercise for me since usually I write abstract stuff (my major has a say in that) or narative.
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/08/tanka.html

I am waiting to read everybody else’s…

15. Christine - August 18, 2008

I captured a moment from the Olympics. Thanks, Juliet!

prana in the pool

16. Nicole Nicholson - August 18, 2008

Here’s my offering for this week:

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/08/17/sunday-morning-in-five-parts/

-Nicole

17. Linda Jacobs - August 18, 2008

I wrote this one a minute ago. Thanks for making me enjoy the moment!

18. Lirone - August 18, 2008

Here’s mine - monkey mind

19. Monkey mind « Words that sing - August 18, 2008

[...] And when I saw the prompt on readwritepoem, to write a poem about being in the moment, I wanted to find a way to convey this feeling. I’ve also tried my hand at a lune chain for the first time. You can read how other poets have responded to the same prompt here. [...]

20. C.Elizabeth - August 18, 2008

I have two “in the moment poems”
1.
http://corinnez.blogspot.com/2008/08/heat-warning-haiku.html
2.
http://corinnez.blogspot.com/2008/08/honesty.html

21. Read Write Poem - August 18, 2008

I fished C.Elizabeth out of the filter.

Don’t you get water-logged. Post one link per comment (as often as you would like).

~Deb

22. odessa - August 18, 2008

here’s my “in the moment” haikus while visiting my aunt in the suburbs this weekend:

suburbia

23. throwshiswords - August 18, 2008

Here’s my “in the moment” haiku:
http://throwshiswords.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/poem-in-the-moment/

24. a~lotus - August 18, 2008

My 4 haiku! Enjoy!

http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/15771.html

25. Beloved Dreamer-Melanie - August 19, 2008

Well I hope I was in the moment!

my poem

love-bd

26. Peter - August 19, 2008

i, a protestant, at the coptic church

27. Lenore - August 19, 2008

My first go here >.<

http://ellenlenore.blogspot.com/2008/08/read-write-poem-in-moment.html

28. Trinath - August 19, 2008

An attempt at http://musingsbytrinath.blogspot.com/2008/08/box.html

29. Paul - August 19, 2008

I have a poem about the artist and his subject bound together in a moment.
http://gingatao.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/not-all-men-are-dead/

30. In the moment: haiku | Stoney Moss - August 19, 2008

[...] week’s prompt at Read Write Poem is Juliet’s, who suggest we write in the moment. Here are other links to this idea. My moments this week (so far) resolved around rain, summer turning to fall too soon [...]

31. ...deb - August 19, 2008

I’m so excited.

About this prompt. About seeing new and veteran RWPers here. And about WD and my new Stoney Moss. I get to make “ping backs” now. Look. Bottom of the page: “In the moment: haiku / Stoney Moss”.

Come look around. (There’s a little dust, and paint touch-ups are needed. But still. It’s fresh.)

Thanks for an inspiring prompt, as always, Juliet.

32. One More Believer - August 20, 2008

something inspired by the red ravine prompt… couldn’t fit it into that prompt but surely fit this one… eternity smiled

33. eternity smiled « Piece of Pie ala Mode - August 20, 2008

[...] moment has past memorize within my soul signaling anew * * * * * * readwritepoem prompt #40: be in the moment; photo: only a foolish bird bark at a flying dog, payl, [...]

34. jorc - August 21, 2008

Mine is here…late, and a bit simplistic maybe….
In this moment

jorc
empty garden

35. R.K.Singh - August 22, 2008

Maybe, friends would like to visit my blogs and comment on my haiku.

Here is one:

Sultry heat
midsummer lethargy:
dog star shines

–R.K.SINGH

36. R.K.Singh - August 22, 2008

My blogs:

http://rksingh.blogspot.com

http://profrksingh.blogspot.com

–R.K.SINGH

37. UL - August 22, 2008

Been a long time here…but had to put this one out even if I am really late -

http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/08/moments.html

« read write with red ravine: what’s in front of you? // read write prompt #41: bare bones, stripping the work down »

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