get your poem on #49

Did you have fun with this week’s prompt from Melissa Fondakowski of Poet with a Day Job? Did you take back language and help us look at it in a fresh way again? We want to know about how you handled “mission, echolalia.”

And of course, if you didn’t do this week’s Read Write Prompt, that’s A-OK. Just share something with the other participants, if you’d be so kind. Perhaps it was a response to Monday’s visual prompt, or perhaps something else got you going. Share. Tell.

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1. Tiel Aisha Ansari - October 23, 2008

I have one for Echolalia

2. Tiel Aisha Ansari - October 23, 2008

and one for the image prompt, Retrospective

3. poet with a day job - October 23, 2008

here’s mine. Can’t wait to wake up tomorrow and read everybody’s!

4. winedark sea - October 23, 2008

for nathan’s readwriteimage

#21

5. Dana - October 23, 2008

Here’s my contribution for the week. It was based on Melissa’s prompt. But somehow I completely and totally veered off and ended up not really doing the prompt at all. I am sorry, Melissa! I tried. Truly.

Operant Conditioning

6. Sweet Talking Guy.. - October 23, 2008

Thanks for the prompt, I used to see this guy on Lime Street every time I went to Liverpool.

The Liverpool Echo for the ECHOLALIA prompt.

http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/10/readwritepoem-49-echolalia.html

7. durable pigments - October 23, 2008

This was inspired more by Melissa’s description of the assignment than the assignment itself, with various other sources of inspiration tossed into the mix as well…

The Tao of Dow

8. Sweet Talking Guy.. - October 23, 2008

One for the image prompt, thanks Nathan.

In Fagins Den

http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/10/read-write-image-1.html

9. Brian - October 23, 2008

http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/the-change-on-november-4th/

I combined both the visual and word prompts this week in a political satire poem called “Taller in person”. Depending how closely you follow the American election and world economics will reveal the layers in the poem.

10. Nathan - October 23, 2008

This is my offering: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/negatives

11. gautami tripathy - October 23, 2008

I wrote half a poem….

http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/10/echoes-reverbate-half-poem.html

12. Jessica - October 23, 2008

Hi all,

Here is a recycled/revised poem for the prompt.

13. Jeeves - October 23, 2008

This poem is for Image #

http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2008/10/remembrance.html

14. Nicole Nicholson - October 23, 2008

Here is my offering for the prompt:

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/20/echolalia/

-Nicole

15. Cynthia Huddleston - October 23, 2008

I am being convicted of the time I don’t devote to writing poetry and taking a look at what the real reasons could be….

To the Poems I Didn’t Write Down

16. Gary Shapiro - October 23, 2008

This is a parody, more doggerel than poetry, but some people have found it fun. I’m hoping to get it circulated before the Nov 4 election.

It’s titled “The Nomination of Sarah P.” after R.W. Service “The Cremation of Sam McGee”

http://spacestevie.multiply.com/journal/item/662/With_apologies_to_Sam_McGee

17. The Bird Sings - October 23, 2008

My little offering.

18. Andrew - October 23, 2008

For “echolalia” I repost this one, which I have erroneously linked on the prompt post:

http://thedustylens.blogspot.com/2008/08/incomunicability.html

thank you
A.

19. rob kistner - October 23, 2008

3 ‘light’ variations on echolalia

20. rob kistner - October 23, 2008

try this again?

3 ‘light’ variations on echolalia

21. artpredator - October 23, 2008

after discovering a certain echo chamber, i decided to share my prose/poem “Not a Joke. Not Funny. Not Waving but Drowning”
artpredator.wordpress.com

22. jorc - October 23, 2008

For readwriteimage #1
http://gameover709.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/gossip/

I think what this image made me feel is pretty evident in my writing. ;-)

23. Tom - October 23, 2008

http://fallenverses.org/2008/10/23/rwp49-hobbyhorse-hobbyhorse-a-paradelle/

For Melissa’s prompt. The image… I dunno about that one. (not whether what I wrote is applicable, because it isn’t, but whether I will be inspired by it or not.)

24. Philip Thrift - October 23, 2008

Modal “echolalia”

25. jorc - October 23, 2008

using the definition, vesus the word itself…

http://gameover709.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/dont-go-autumn/

jorc

26. rob @ IVtoo - October 23, 2008

Relentless Repetition

27. Annamari - October 23, 2008

and my attempt:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/10/readwritepoem-49-from-nims-notes.html

You can skip the narrative -the poem is in italics.

28. Agnes, the Kari person - October 23, 2008

Echolalia. Here goes nothin’. Nothin’.

http://poetthis.blogspot.com/2008/10/trinity.html

29. Echolalia « Via Negativa - October 23, 2008

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30. Mad Kane - October 23, 2008

These days I’m mostly prompted and inspired by politics. :)
Where’s My Personal Shopper?

31. yuzublizzard - October 24, 2008

For the echolalia prompt I wrote
Narcissus falls in love:
http://yuzublizzard.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/narcissus-falls-in-love/

32. gautami tripathy - October 24, 2008

I kind of complete it without much effort!

:D

echoes reverbate

33. Christine - October 24, 2008

Hi, I’m a little late. I just got the inspiration to write a while a go, while listening to Michelle Obama’s speech in Ohio. She provided me with the perfect tie in between the word echolalia and the current state of our world. although I responded in the poem on a personal level, the poem is my attempt at a political type statement. Thanks for the prompt!

We Feel It

34. Donald Harbour - October 24, 2008

Response to Image Prompt #1

There is always parting, in meeting!

35. jillypoet - October 25, 2008

talking to the fruits and vegetables, i am: http://jillypoet.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-love-you-poetry-gong-10.html


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