by Carolee Sherwood
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This was hard for me. I only kind of did the prompt. I wrote about each “piece” but was not able to weave them all together. Sigh. So I am sharing one of the pieces.
Here is my contribution.
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This was a really good prompt, I just couldn’t get focused on it. I still have a week to try to do it well, but for now: this.
http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2007/12/3-pointy-parts.html
This was a fun one, although I was irreverent..
I wrote a lot of poetry this weekend when I was procrastinating (I have reviews to finish for work – that’s why I’m up now at 1 AM). This is what came from the 3 things I found in my desk.
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/12/three-things.html
Morning all…….
http://abroadsthoughtsfromhome.blogspot.com/2007/12/for-read-write-poem.html
Thanks for the prompt.
Well, here’s my go for the week.
http://mingyun.org/2007/12/03/treasured/
I didn’t quite get my ideas together, but this piece I had already written is semi-relevant to the prompt as it mixes up different periods of history:
The Crows at Stirling Castle
This was one way of remembering my dad!
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2007/12/aromatic-pleasure-read-write-poemmonday.html
hello everyone. i haven’t actually written much poetry recently, but i did have a crack at this one. when i had finished the first draft i realised that there wasn’t much substance to my poem and it seemed a bit two-dimensional, so i played around with it answering questions that i had been asking myself as i thought about it during the day.
i would really appreciate some constructive feedback on this. i find it a bit of a struggle to get anything out at the moment and would welcome your critique and advice!
i guess what i’m meant to do is give you a link to this poem, so here it is…
three
this was really tough… i was lost in the abstractness of the prompt but i am hoping i redeemed myself in the end….
“trinity me”
Okay, okay, so I didn’t do the prompt. But I do have two new pieces up. Come on by!
i agree this one was tricky … but not for lack of ideas, it seems, all around. i came up with plenty of ideas, but they seemed to need more attention than i could give them this week.
i did get 5 “pieces” in this one, randomly selected from a list of mine and two other poets’ pieces. but in order to do it, i did have to resort to a list poem. if nothing else, list poems give up pieces to work on individually in the future.
here it is / no password needed this time, my pretties. but i have been having trouble with the comments section of my blog. if you have trouble, email art[at]polkadotwitch[dot]com so i can keep nagging the wordpress people.
What a treat to have a snow day today and be able to post early and read the poems already posted.
Again, thank you for creating this cool site!
here
Polka Dot Witch, I am having trouble commenting, so I will leave my comment here. (I also e-mailed it to you.)
“Aaah, the list poem. I should have thought about that when I tried putting my pieces together. You’ve pulled all your pieces together well. I also really like the ending of this and how visually the pieces start to fall out like so many slips of paper.”
I hope you can get the Wordpress people to listen to you about your template not working correctly.
I took three dream objects I’ve been seeing lately, and tried to tie them together in a poem. I wrote a sestina, or attempted one, because of the multiples of three.
http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/computers-copiers-and-codes/
This was a tough one for me, but I already see how the mixing of three elements could turn into a braided poem, with lots of possibilities. Thanks polkadotwitch, for a spellbinding prompt.
Mine’s a bit of a bucket mix!
Sand Cement and Stone.
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2007/12/rwp-3-sand-cement-and-stone.html
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my three things ended up being more related than not. Read about them here
This is first time participating here. Pardon me if I screwed up. I become confused easily. Anywhoo, here’s my contribution:
http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/
Susan, you didn’t screw up at all. Welcome to the project.
Great fun!
One of my things is a man, or the portrait of a man. A compassionate one, I hope. Juxtapositions can have such force.
http://springfarmalmanac.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/a-bent-for-history/
I am in London and hope to read your contributions later in the week. Here’s mine:
http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2007/12/three-cities.html
Merci!
I had a time finding threes I wanted to work with, so I tried Ceridwen’s idea instead of mine. But I remembered hers wrong, or rather, not quite right. So here’s mine: First Fear and a Death, something that pushed me a bit.
I’ll be back to read you all.
Haha! This was lots of fun. and my first contribution!
http://halftones.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/a-painting-a-pirate-hat-and-a-promiscuous-night-in-beijing/
Thanks everybody!
Fabs.
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