by Carolee Sherwood
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So not on topic, but Blythe and I just got married. We’re inviting you to the party, and we expect fake gifts. No worries: we have a registry so it’s easy to select something and leave it in both our comments sections.
Oh, there’s a kickin’ collaborative poem over there, too, which we write to commemorate the event. Of course it’s about marriage. And the wedding attendees are hot, so I guess it is on point.
Here’s the link to my love letter to Blythe.
Our Wedding Poem
Blythe will be along shortly to leave links to her posts for the week, and do make sure you check out both our sites. It’s a wedding, after all. You need to mingle, give us both well wishes. (And stuff! Don’t forget to give us stuff!)
In case Blythe is all worn out from our hot wedding … conversation, here are her links:
Here Come the Bride(s)
Marital Bliss
and
A Love Letter to My Facebook Wife
Dana, I love you for this and a thousand other things… but I am pooped, and was dreading making *three more links*. And you did all the hard work for me.
I suggest everyone find themselves a collaborative poetry partner and get hitched.
(Dana and I highly recommend Deb as an officiant, if you’re looking.)
[...] Resident Expert This is posted in response to Prompt #35 at Read Write Poem. [...]
Not exactly on topic but it ends at the beach: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/resident-expert
here’s mine:
summer heat
Here’s mine:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/07/sunburned.html
I’m out of town for a few days but look forward to reading everyone else’s poems when i get back
Two from me, seeing as you gave me a special one of my own!
http://pipssqueaks.blogspot.com/2008/07/read-write-poem-dark-summer.html
You’ll find mine in this post:
Tony On Conflict, Bug & More
Enjoy.
I am appreciating a little winter sunlight around here, so this is as miserable as I could bring myself to be this week:
http://poetrychook.blogspot.com/2008/07/sunny-interlude.html
Carolee, thanks for the inspiration. Your words echoed! July Girl
Regards,
DCH
After Lengthy Consideration, The Allergy Sufferer Determines She Has Been Misled, And Spring Is Neither Mudluscious Nor Puddlewonderful
I’ve been on vacation, and haven’t have a chance to read what this week’s prompt was, much less write to it. I’m digging this out of my archives–more a loathing-of-spring piece than a loathing-of-summer piece–to show my support of Carolee’s seasonal sun-loathing.
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/wisconsin-river/
A day when youth met the summer sun… and lost badly.
Here is my offering for this prompt:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/07/11/summers-juxtaposed/
-Nicole
The one thing I truly hate about Summer:
http://drawingsinthesurf.blogspot.com/2008/07/farmers-tan.html
Thanks for the prompt!!
so sorry to have missed the nuptuals! i offer a sort of wedding, sort of hot poem
http://jillypoet.blogspot.com/2008/07/youre-not-getting-paid-to-love.html
Waiting for Bolivar Ferry
Summer did this to me:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/07/building-balconies-inside-your-head.html
It is nice when a prompt turns up that fits a previously written poem to perfection!
I may be back with something fresh later, but in the meantime here’s my reflections on summer and winter
Summer heat is worst in the South when even at night there is no relief…
In a Fog
(P.S. Carolee ~ I AM selling drugs and promoting gambling.)
Having been on hiatus for a while, I only had a brief moment yesterday to peek in at RWP. I thought about it at night, then spent my free afternoon writing furiously. Now I get back on the internet and found that I responded to the wrong prompt! Oh well, it’s winter here right now anyway. There’s nothing more depressing than writing about the beach on a cold July day in the southern hemisphere.
For some fun-in-the-sun reading pleasure, I’ve served up a sweet slice of Raspberry Pie
Here is my ode to ridiculous heat and irritation . . .
Temperature Temper Tantrum
Enjoy
mine mentions a wedding, too. and you’ll need the password. it’s been a while since i’ve written anything so if you’ve forgotten it (or if you need it for the first time) email me: art [at] polkadotwitch [dot] com.
if you have it (i’m sure your computer remembers it), stop by here.
as the read write prompt-er (or is it the get your poem on-er?) for this week, i feel it is my duty — and privilege — to go visit all the wonderful contributions to my fun in the sun prompt. i’m having a blast reading everyone’s work. thanks for playing along and joining me in my campaign to protest everything summer.
and if you come close, i’ll whisper something very private to you …
**you’ve reminded me of some hot things i actually like: raspberries, men with forked tails, evening fog, ferry boats. shhhhh.**
Carolee….I apologize for hogging the site. After she read July Girl one of my daughters insisted I put this poem up. She said it has always been one of her favorites. Lord knows you don’t want to disappoint a daughter, particularly this one. Hope you guys enjoy! By the way, this is about a true adventure.
Carins
Well, sun is life to me, so: First Light
http://gameover709.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/his-first-trip-to-the-beach/
what do you think?
OK, I can now offer you a nice fresh poem, so no risk that it will have gone off in the heat!
Don’t you just hate the heat?
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/07/rwp-35.html
I didn’t do this prompt (the relations were in town, I know, weak excuse), but the quality of poems this week was UNBELIEVABLE. Obviously this prompt struck a chord.
As my mother always said, “When it comes to complaining, most folks are ready, willing and more than able!”
Thanks to everybody for making the last hour of work just fly by!
Jeff
http://nibblepoems.wordpress.com
I wrote this one last week for last week’s prompt but was unable to get it posted due to lack of electricity and internet access at our campsites at 10,000′, 8,000′ and 7600′ in the white mountains and in the sierras!
so I posted last week’s poem written for last week’s prompt today when we returned.
if narrative suits your fancy, there’s some already about our trip which was definitely lots o fun in the sun and more! I will be writing more about it and posting in the coming days…
and maybe get a poem out of it too to share!
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
oh the poem’s titled “mountain twilight breath” …
BTW, the temp in the desert where we camped this morning and caught 3 fish: 70 at 7am, in the 80s at 8am, 90s at 9am, almost 100 at 10am when we packed up…
oh and congrats on the nuptials!!
[...] mind back to a summer drive home from work in peak hour traffic to bring you this response to the “get your poem on #35″ prompt at Read Write [...]
Mine’s up.
http://maekitso.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/peak-hour-summer/
Looking forward to seeing you there.
excellent prompt! burn
Summer fun
I’m OK with the sun, but I remembered something from a trip to a big, big city some years ago in August.
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/07/summer-funk.html
Fire, with a bit of politics…
Here’s one on the theme that I wrote at a “poetry party” last May. Look for the poem titled “sun”: http://throwshiswords.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/may-poetry-party/
Midnight July