by Deb Scott
It’s post time at Read Write Poem, this week about traveling companions.
Or maybe you wrote about something else entirely. We care less about what got you started than reading what you wrote. Actually, we do like to hear what got you started. We like all things poetry-related, and then some.
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http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2006/01/travelling-souls.html
Here’s mine: Traveling Companion, With the Window Down.
I enjoyed doing this:
comrades in arms
i had a nice trip down memory lane with this one,,,,
http://why-paisley.com/2008/01/11/welcome-to-the-jungle/
On my Alter Ego blog there’s a poem for the theme:
http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2006/07/shoes.html
And on Crafty Green Poet how about travelling with some of the best loved poets in the 20th Century: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/01/poetry-speaks-expanded-edited-by-elise.html
a very different journey, this is where I went with it, sorry, laughing
http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/untitled/
Here’s mine. A great prompt, deb. I actually wrote two poems, I liked it so much, but I’m only posting one.
http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/middle-age-and-youth/
Just found you site and I love it! Such great prompts. I haven’t taken the time I have needed to write poetry lately and this is just the thing to help me make the time.Thanks!
Here’s my traveling companion theme called “War Torn”
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/01/war-torn.html
Bad Poet Society: War Torn
http://www.schmutzie.com/2008/01/in-field-1987.html
http://pipssqueaks.blogspot.com/2008/01/read-write-poem-road-trip.html
Thanks for the invite! Here’s mine:
http://hollyannam.blogspot.com/2008/01/awakening.html
I posted an old poem for this prompt, since I had one that suits: Coming to Grief
And I do have a new poem this week: I Have This to Say About That
Here’s mine about my trip to England a few years ago with my friend, and fellow English teacher, Dottie.
My entry
I did something else entirely! Please come on by and see!
But it IS a journey, I promise…..
Here’s mine:
http://www.9to5poet.com/2008/01/imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-ripping.html
Good prompt, deb!
Here’s a late one from me -
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/01/treasure-mine.html
what a trip! go see what i have so far …
A late one from me, if there’s still anyone around..!
http://patteran.typepad.com
Hi everyone!
Nothing’s too late this week. Comments don’t close until next Sunday, so come back and post and read and read and post.
I know it takes me several days to get to everyone (and last week, with everything so new to me, I didn’t get to all the places I wanted to!)
So post and read at your leisure. The light’s on all night long.
Lynn, Glad you found us. Come back anytime, with your poem(s) on…
here is my first posting for ReadWritePoem
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2008/01/pondering.html
I wrote this before I read the prompt. Surprise, surprise, it fits! I am working on another “traveling” poem, inspired by a slap dash trip across the state to a hospital–oddly enough, occuring last Saturday when I thought I needed a travel poem. But, it’s in progress…
Head West
I’ve posted a response to comments on I Have This To Say About That here: Politics & Poetics
I hope I don’t sound defensive; I’m actually interested and excited to see such interest in something I’ve done. I’ve rarely given one of my own poems this kind of attention; my poems rarely get this (particular) kind of attention from others.
I am sharing some notes from a “Journey” here…
http://cdeliascarpitti.blogspot.com/2008/01/traveling-there-is-crack-in-everything.html
Love,
Delia
Here’s a travel poem by a 12th grader. I’ve thought it could be read at every high school graduation and improve the quality considerably.
http://witsblog.org/2008/01/15/travel-lightly/
http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/2007/12/continued-and-list-goes-on.htmlHere’s mine.
Here’s another:
<a href= http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/2008/01/draft_14.html
[...] Is the angler fish ever tempted by its own bait? Does it ever stir from whatever trance-like state passes for sleep in the aphotic zone, see the glowing decoy & think, Ah — mine! & surge forward, jaws agape, like the proverbial donkey tempted by a carrot? Or does it get snappish at its traveling companion, persistent as a bad conscience, haunting as the image of its own death? __________ Written for the Read Write Poem prompt, “traveling companions.” Links to other poems for the prompt are here. [...]
Decoy
Here’s mine for the week~
Travellers
I’m stuck with long, long hours at work this week, but I didn’t want to miss this prompt – this has been rattling around in the back of my brain for days now…
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/01/traveling-companions.html
Okay, I’m experincing a bit of prompt burnout or maybe I really should say that sometimes I simply need to sit with a prompt a bit before I write.
Anywhoo, here’s a something else. All feedback welcome.
http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/2008/01/draft_18.html