Comments on: get your poem on #4 http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/ Mon, 03 May 2010 01:01:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Read Write Poem http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Read Write Poem Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:21:17 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-325 Comments for this post are now closed. Comments for this post are now closed.

]]> By: Clay http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Clay Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:41:13 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-324 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 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

]]> By: Tom http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Tom Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:56:18 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-323 Perhaps late, but better than never, right. Maybe not after you read <a href="http://fallenverses.org/2007/12/12/the-making-of-a-poem-2-change-up-your-sestina-line-length-a-read-write-poem-prompt/" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Perhaps late, but better than never, right. Maybe not after you read this.

]]> By: The Making of a Poem #2: Change up your Sestina line length (a Read Write Poem prompt) « Fallen Verses http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-322 The Making of a Poem #2: Change up your Sestina line length (a Read Write Poem prompt) « Fallen Verses Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:55:27 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-322 [...] December 12 · No Comments I feel kind of bad that it is my prompt up over at Read Write Poem, and I haven’t posted a prompted poem! So, this changes now. I have been shirking many, many [...] [...] December 12 · No Comments I feel kind of bad that it is my prompt up over at Read Write Poem, and I haven’t posted a prompted poem! So, this changes now. I have been shirking many, many [...]

]]> By: wendy http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-321 wendy Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:17:00 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-321 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. 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.

]]> By: slynne http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-320 slynne Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:51:48 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-320 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/ 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/

]]> By: pauline http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-319 pauline Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:37:52 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-319 My contribution is <a href="http://prophetswords.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">here</a> My contribution is here

]]> By: Roberta http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Roberta Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:16:59 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-318 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) 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)

]]> By: Crafty Green Poet http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Crafty Green Poet Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:53:10 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-317 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. 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.

]]> By: Dick Jones http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Dick Jones Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:26:15 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-316 I'm modeling the longer line with this one. I’m modeling the longer line with this one.

]]> By: Linda Jacobs http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Linda Jacobs Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:38:52 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-315 I enjoyed writing this <a>sestina</a> but still like the way short lines look on the page. I enjoyed writing this sestina but still like the way short lines look on the page.

]]> By: SweetTalkingGuy http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-314 SweetTalkingGuy Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:02:32 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-314 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 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

]]> By: Dave Bonta http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Dave Bonta Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:17:48 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-313 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. <a href="http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/12/08/el-son-de-las-hojas-five-tree-poems-from-renaissance-spain/" rel="nofollow">"El son de las hojas": Five tree poems from Renaissance Spain</a> (I'm still going to try to do an original poem for this prompt, and will leave a pingback if I do.) 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.)

]]> By: Rethabile http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Rethabile Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:25:02 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-312 This is off-prompt, and some of you have already seen it, but I have nothing else to offer, so here goes: <a href="http://poefrika.blogspot.com/2007/12/bonfire.html" rel="nofollow">The bonfire</a>. Cheers. RWP is turning out nicely. Good. 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.

]]> By: poet with a day job http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-311 poet with a day job Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:26:20 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-311 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... <a href="http://poetwithadayjob.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/i-am-determined-to-finish-the-draft-of-the-suite/" rel="nofollow">Dance</a> 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

]]> By: ...deb http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-310 ...deb Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:01:56 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-310 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:<a href="http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2007/12/bringing-bread-to-house-of-bereavedfor.html" rel="nofollow">stoney moss: Bringing Bread to the House of the Bereaved...for ReadWritePoem</a>. 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.

]]> By: slynne http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-309 slynne Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:52:17 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-309 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! 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!

]]> By: Christine http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Christine Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:21:14 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-308 Thanks, Tom. This prompt encouraged me to try something new. http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/296/ Thanks, Tom. This prompt encouraged me to try something new.

http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/296/

]]> By: Jessica http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Jessica Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:13:26 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-307 Excellent prompt -- it gave me a much needed push to revise! http://www.9to5poet.com/2007/12/bending-and-breaking-lines.html Excellent prompt — it gave me a much needed push to revise!

http://www.9to5poet.com/2007/12/bending-and-breaking-lines.html

]]> By: Jack http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/comment-page-1/#comment-306 Jack Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:21:25 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2007/12/10/get-your-poem-on-4/#comment-306 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. 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.

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