by Tom Adam
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This was such a useful exercise for me — thank you so much for the prompt! I realized that I’ve been writing almost entirely in short lines, for quite a long time. I used to write, at least sometimes, in long lines. I think the narrowness of my blog column has, perhaps, confined my style a bit.
So here is What It Is – an exercise in long lines.
Mine is short lines too, usually shorter than the one I have here, but compared to what you really asked for, I dont think I have met the mark…but here it is anyway. Thanks so much for the prompt -
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2007/12/high-cleaning.html
Do drop in your comments.
My free verse also tends toward short lines, but I’m having trouble with longer lines. So instead, I played with the SHAPE the lines make:
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/12/salute.html
and then, in a poem I wrote for another prompt site, I tried using shorter lines only for emphasis:
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/12/museum-marble.html
thanks for the challenge!
i created an entire idea based on two word lines,, with one three word line as more or less a descriptor… very fun…
“venerated prey”
Here’s mine:
http://abroadsthoughtsfromhome.blogspot.com/2007/12/for-read-write-poem_09.html
Thanks for the prompt, it was interesting. I have to echo what SB says too, often the blog dictates my line length.
As for my writing goes, I keep changing. I write structured forms as well as free verse.
I tried a paradelle for this prompt which I had not attempted before.
Paradelle is a parody of the villanelle.
Mine is here:
scientifically insane—paradelle
PS: My line length too keep changing. long, short, mixed which all depends on what I am writing and how I want to convey it.
http://mingyun.org/2007/12/06/moonlit/
I went with longer lines for a change. I’m not totally happy with the results, but it was an interesting exercise.
Excellent prompt — it gave me a much needed push to revise!
http://www.9to5poet.com/2007/12/bending-and-breaking-lines.html
Thanks, Tom. This prompt encouraged me to try something new.
http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/296/
I’m still working on mine. I got far too ambitious with the pieces of me poem and work, and I just put up a different three pieces of me poem, and and and… I am workingon a sestina for this one and I really hope to finish it tonight!
Good prompt, Tom. I went with longer lines, though I think I might have gotten more out of the exercise had I gone longer line & longer poem or tried a formal shape.
Anyway, here it is:stoney moss: Bringing Bread to the House of the Bereaved…for ReadWritePoem.
I didn’t follow the prompt, other than to be prompted to write a poem – but I do at least know this one wants to be a prose poem…
Dance
This is off-prompt, and some of you have already seen it, but I have nothing else to offer, so here goes: The bonfire. Cheers. RWP is turning out nicely. Good.
A post I did two days ago followed perhaps the spirit of the prompt rather than the letter, in that I did some translations and was therefore led to arrange my words to resemble the originals as much as possible — often not the way I would’ve arranged them at all.
“El son de las hojas”: Five tree poems from Renaissance Spain
(I’m still going to try to do an original poem for this prompt, and will leave a pingback if I do.)
Yeah, I tried to write the longest lines I could but ended up chopping them down to seventeen syllable sentences as anything longer doesn’t fit on my blog.
Anyway, I used your random prompt, Confession!
Here’s my attempt:
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2007/12/rwp4-confession.html
I enjoyed writing this sestina but still like the way short lines look on the page.
I’m modeling the longer line with this one.
Here’s my post about line length: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2007/12/line-length.html – it has some links to poems of mine with different line lengths.
http://birdswordpoetry.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/fruits/
my attempt, reposted in the right spot-again a combo of poem idea #3 and #4 plus a hats off to Allen Ginsburg again (if I counted correctly that is)
My contribution is here
OK, work on the sestina continues, but here is my post with a sort of interactive thing I usually do not do.
http://soyouthinkican.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/word-lust/
http://quietaboutalotofthings.blogspot.com/2007/12/line-breaks-and-comas-and-flowoh-my.html
blogger wanked up the line breaks..
but it is a departure.
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Perhaps late, but better than never, right. Maybe not after you read this.
This poem grew out of a line i heard on my daily walk. The line in question is ‘I was here to stay.’ The resultant poem:
http://claytonlowe.com/?p=257
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