get your poem on #50

Due to a technical difficulty, the wrong post auto-published this morning. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Now let’s all get our poems on!

How’d everybody do getting Gothic this week? Are we going to get some vampires, spirits of the night and drafty castles? I hope so!

Now’s the time to leave us a link to your work about the Gothic or whatever you came up with. Remember to leave more than one comment if you have more than one link.

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1. Richard - October 30, 2008

Sweet familiars:

WHITE CATS

2. Tiel Aisha Ansari - October 30, 2008

Well, this poem is Haunting

3. durable pigments - October 30, 2008

A gothic re-interpretation of a collaborative piece Carolee and I wrote together last week…

Jane Says To Mr. Rochester

4. nibblepoems - October 30, 2008

Here’s mine. Followed both the ‘Gothic’ prompt and the ‘Random Poetry Prompt: ledges’

http://nibblepoems.wordpress.com

5. yuzublizzard - October 30, 2008

I would never have thought about writing a gothic poem without this promt - which I guess is the charm of prompts: to lead you into unexplored territory. I ended up on

The Norwegian Sea

6. rob kistner - October 30, 2008

Reaper Groom

7. Jessica - October 30, 2008

I used the Wordle promt and (unfortunately) no gothiness:

Enduring Life on Stilts

8. artpredator - October 30, 2008

I have a true ghost story haunted house prose/poem:

http://artpredator.wordpress.com

It’s a sticky post for the next day or two.

Also, I went to a wine blogging conference last weekend and have posts about that up and/or in process–several of the ideas transport from the world of wine to poetry.

I also went away with the wild idea of putting together a conference for poetry bloggers in mid-May 2009 out here in SoCal–just north of LA (with easy shuttles to the potential site which is on the ocean near downtown and pictured in my post above in the far right corner of the image!)

Would you be interested in attending a conference with writing and blogging workshops? Featured readings and open mics?

Happy Halloween, everyone!

9. gautami tripathy - October 30, 2008

Here is mine:

http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/10/numbing-senses-senseless.html

10. Nicole Nicholson - October 30, 2008

I went biblical on your collective poetic asses this time (gothic in spirit, not necessarily in location/time/form):

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/10/28/final-night-in-sodom/

11. Philip Thrift - October 30, 2008

Terence Fisher rules

12. Nathan - October 30, 2008

Not too Gothic but it’s what I’m working on with Dana:
http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/a-collaboration

13. Nathan - October 30, 2008

Here’s the link to Dana’s page: http://mygorgeoussomewhere.org/2008/10/30/a-poetry-experiment/#more-1517

14. Linda Jacobs - October 30, 2008

Here’s one for the Wordle.

15. Dana - October 30, 2008

A~Lotus has requested that we post this link:

http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/28699.html

16. Cynthia Huddleston - October 30, 2008

I wrote this one back in August and now it is appropriately timed to share.

Beside Myself, In Bad Company

17. Jeeves - October 30, 2008

Now haunting enough

http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2008/10/castles-float-in-ghost-memories-while.html

18. Crafty Green Poet - October 31, 2008

well I went for the goth side of Gothic and posted this on my Over Forty Shades blog:
http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2008/10/misinterpreting-gothic-as-goth.html

19. Christine - October 31, 2008

I kept this one relatively short, but I could have taken it in many directions. Thanks, Tom!
The House of a Thousand Stairs

20. Smith - October 31, 2008

Really this remembers me my childhood days :)

21. The Querulous Squirrel - November 1, 2008

Well, sort of Gothic. Well, short and rhythmic like a poem but really a story. Gotta get a hang…

22. jillypoet - November 1, 2008

October brings out the Gothic in me, or at least my poetry. I loved this prompt! If I wore a Halloween Costume this year, this would’ve been the one!

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