Comments on: get your poem on #9 http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/ Mon, 03 May 2010 01:01:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: susan http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-498 susan Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:15:03 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-498 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 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

]]> By: sister AE http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-499 sister AE Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:40:48 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-499 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 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

]]> By: bb http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-497 bb Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:31:46 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-497 Here's mine for the week~ <a href="http://becomingamethyst.blogspot.com/2008/01/readwritepoem-travelling-companion.html" rel="nofollow">Travellers</a> Here’s mine for the week~

Travellers

]]> By: Dave http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Dave Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:48:46 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-496 <a href="http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/16/decoy/" rel="nofollow">Decoy</a> Decoy

]]> By: Via Negativa » Blog Archive » Decoy http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Via Negativa » Blog Archive » Decoy Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:35:13 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-493 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: susan http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-494 susan Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:07:49 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-494 Here's another: <a href= http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/2008/01/draft_14.html</a> Here’s another:

<a href= http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/2008/01/draft_14.html

]]> By: susan http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-495 susan Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:32:03 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-495 <a>http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/2007/12/continued-and-list-goes-on.html</a>Here's mine. http://blackeyedsusans.blogspot.com/2007/12/continued-and-list-goes-on.htmlHere’s mine.

]]> By: Robin http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-492 Robin Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:31:17 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-492 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/ 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/

]]> By: Delia http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-491 Delia Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:17:39 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-491 I am sharing some notes from a "Journey" here... http://cdeliascarpitti.blogspot.com/2008/01/traveling-there-is-crack-in-everything.html Love, Delia I am sharing some notes from a “Journey” here…

http://cdeliascarpitti.blogspot.com/2008/01/traveling-there-is-crack-in-everything.html

Love,
Delia

]]> By: SB http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-490 SB Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:22:53 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-490 I've posted a response to comments on <a href="http://www.sbpoet.com/2008/01/i-have-this-to.html" rel="nofollow">I Have This To Say About That</a> here: <a href="http://www.sbpoet.com/2008/01/politics-poetic.html" rel="nofollow">Politics & Poetics</a> 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’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.

]]> By: jillypoet http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-484 jillypoet Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:27:19 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-484 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... <a href="http://jillypoet.blogspot.com/2008/01/friday-5.html" rel="nofollow">Head West</a> 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

]]> By: Christy http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-483 Christy Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:35:48 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-483 here is my first posting for ReadWritePoem http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2008/01/pondering.html here is my first posting for ReadWritePoem

http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2008/01/pondering.html

]]> By: Read Write Poem http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Read Write Poem Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:01:57 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-489 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... 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…

]]> By: Dick http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-488 Dick Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:18:55 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-488 A late one from me, if there’s still anyone around..! http://patteran.typepad.com A late one from me, if there’s still anyone around..!

http://patteran.typepad.com

]]> By: carolee http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-486 carolee Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:57:34 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-486 <a href="http://polkadotwitch.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/what-a-trip/" rel="nofollow">what a trip!</a> go see what i have so far ... what a trip! go see what i have so far …

]]> By: UL http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-487 UL Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:26:27 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-487 Here's a late one from me - http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/01/treasure-mine.html Here’s a late one from me -

http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/01/treasure-mine.html

]]> By: Jessica http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-485 Jessica Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:33:36 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-485 Here's mine: http://www.9to5poet.com/2008/01/imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-ripping.html Good prompt, deb! Here’s mine:

http://www.9to5poet.com/2008/01/imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-ripping.html

Good prompt, deb!

]]> By: Pepektheassassin http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-482 Pepektheassassin Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:57:41 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-482 But it IS a journey, I promise..... But it IS a journey, I promise…..

]]> By: Pepektheassassin http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Pepektheassassin Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:54:14 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-481 I did something else entirely! Please come on by and see! I did something else entirely! Please come on by and see!

]]> By: Linda Jacobs http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Linda Jacobs Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:31:03 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/2008/01/14/get-your-poem-on-9/#comment-480 Here's mine about my trip to England a few years ago with my friend, and fellow English teacher, Dottie. <a href="http://lindaspoetry.blogspot.com/2008/01/lake-of-memories.html" rel="nofollow">My entry</a> Here’s mine about my trip to England a few years ago with my friend, and fellow English teacher, Dottie.

My entry

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