by Jill Crammond Wickham
Hey. It’s Monday just after midnight, CST, and time to open the comments to your fresh poetry.
Did you catch some words, using this week’s prompt, or try something else altogether? Post and link and have yourself a little poetry-party.
Be sure to check back through the week and find links to other people’s poetic-stuff that they’ve chosen to share for Read Write Poem! In the States it’s a holiday (Labor Day weekend), the last fling-weekend before many schools start back in. So some folks may be a little late around here.
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And in case you missed it, there is other poetic action available.
A chainpoem riffing on Tom’s last article about renga and renku.
A free-write exercise, in collaboration with red Ravine.
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Hey, this was so much fun, I might do another one! (Plus, it’s been a LONG time since I’ve been the first poster!) Happy first week of school for you students out there..
http://stoneymoss.org/2008/08/31/confronting-tears/
hmmm, so I get to post first:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/08/to-n-readwritepoem42.html
a poem that owes to Saint John of the Cross, Martin Heidegger, Jaime Saenz and the pomegranate.
I caught a title” The Taxidermist
and there is an older one:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/08/nim-from-notebooks.html
this owes much to the words I found in a news article about another kind of immigrant deportation. I don’t know about my account on the issue as literary value, but the subject is worth a quick read and a thought…
Here is my contribution:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-catch-words-haphazardly.html
Here’s mine:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/08/crazy-bird-music.html
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/tony-on-celebs-britain-more
Enjoy.
Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/photo-factory
I wrote it after reading “The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me” by Delmore Schwartz. They might share a theme of ’something that connects us.’
Found In Fragments
I caught some words from a Jim Morrison poem that turned into a Doors song. It’s here:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/08/28/nightmare/
-Nicole
Here’s mine: explosion
Jill, this is a great prompt, because it guides the writer consciously along the path of inspiration, and it allows us to honor the poets who have come before us, or who walk alongside us. Plus, I like how each poem I’ll read today will be completely different, coming from a unique source.
Shadow Boxing
OK, listen. This is not a poem, but it *is* a poem in process. Come watch it unfold. It unfolds slowly, though, so be prepared to check in over the course of hours. Or days. Or weeks. Probably not weeks. Anyway, here’s the link:
a funnelcakes work in progress
Here’s mine:
Faith in the Flesh
Thanks, Jill, for the prompt. I returned to a poem by Bob Hickok from the May 17 New Yorker which inspired my project “50 States” and I wrote a new one today, “50 States of Optimism.” My blog has a link to another poem in this project I did as well as a copy of Bob Hickok’s original inspiration.
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
*whistles innocently*
http://fallenverses.org/2008/09/01/read-write-poem-42-sign-in-or-register/
spectacle
I’m still working on my poem in between anatomy and microbiology classes! @_@
Okay, here it is!!
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/21119.html
[...] calm autumn comes converging unrestrained wind smell summer passage * * * * * * * * * * ReadWritePoem #42: inspired by another’s poem. photo: Waves, olpron, [...]
another excellent prompt hope and a half
I caught a word from the “random prompts” here. The word was doppelganger. Here’s my take…
http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/2008/09/benediction-in-sourdough.html
Thanks to those who checked out my new poem for this prompt–wanted to let you know I turned it into an iMoive that’s up on YouTube or ou can watch it on my blog!
http://artpredator.wordpress.com