I did my word fishing in some favorite haiku by Basho:

http://throwshiswords.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/poem-silence-shimmering/

I read up on some local poets from the north west of England for my word fishing trip: http://sewina.blogspot.com

Mine is not exactly fishing. It has internal rhyming and end rhymes.

http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/09/someday.html

Here’s a draft of my poem which uses words from poems by one of my favourite poets, Derek Mahon.

Plato’s Cave Re-visited

Here is my offering for the week. I used books from five poets I had around the house. Enjoy.

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/09/21/dreams/

-Nicole

Prelude to an Elizabethan Autumn

based on the five words that “jump out at me” from Shakespeare’s Sonnets

I didn’t write to the prompt (but might yet - it’s a good one!) so here’s something of a mash-up:

I Will Wake Up

I don’t know about this one.

love-bd

my poem

I’ve been on a tree binge lately.

I started off with five words from Crushed by Richard Siken, but I ended up not using them. Here are the words I chose:

smash, script, gasoline, sheen, bougainvillea

These words did influence the poem, however. ‘Gasoline’ made me think of fear, and ‘bougainvillea’ recalled beauty. I also used an image I read in this collection, of hands like birds, but I came up with that image before I read Siken’s book, when I wrote a chop suey poem for the poetry collaborative. Maybe ‘hands like birds’ is an image that has occurred to many of us.

Interview with a Hickory

Thanks to Rethabile, I did come up with this an american sentence

Argggg, wrong link, look here for an american sentence

Thanks Christine for such a nice prompt. Here’s mine:

“An Oak Tree”

I guess you’re not displaying pingbacks anymore, so here’s my link:
http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/09/25/finding-why-wind-turbines-kill-bats/

I’m not sure why the pingbacks aren’t showing anymore, Dave. Will try to suss it out.

i kinda did it–i did “i am” poems with groups of kids in my son’s k-1 class and then i did one in the comments.

i have another one up my sleeve–an idea anyway–just haven’t fished the words, i get too distracted by the loveliness of the poems! i will come back and say so if i do…

there’s some other ones new since last week, too, i think–one for fall, that would have fit into the elegy prompt i realize now!

http://artpredator.wordpress.com

Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-years

Oops. I got led astray by the words “word fishing”. It sounded like a great exercise though.

http://pipssqueaks.blogspot.com/2008/09/read-write-poem-word-fishing.html

I have no idea how to do pingbacks, even if you were displaying them. I’m a bit late this week, but at least I am writing again

Moths

http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/25729.html

I posted this in the other entry re: GYPO #45 because I wasn’t able to be there yesterday (Thurs.) to do it, but I’ll post again!

we’re a little late but jill and i worked collaboratively on this one: here’s mine.