by Christine Swint
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Couldn’t make my mind up so it’s two for one prompt day.
A Desert Passage
Yesterday Forever
From gautami:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/09/undead-for-eternity.html
From Sweet Talking Guy:
http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/09/normal-0-king-of-kingston-little-miss.html
From Brian:
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/when-at-last-we-rest/
Here’s my link: Remembrance
Thanks Deb, but any lateness due to poetry is excused.
I again agree with Brian!
Are you drunk, Brian?!
A lie in now and again is good for the soul. You’ll find mine in this post (no, I don’t mean ’soul’):
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/pop-goes-the-shareholder
Enjoy.
Actually I wanted THIS to be linked:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/09/irrationality.html
This was written in remembrance of my dad…
http://petitepoet.blogspot.com/2008/09/sgt-joe.html
Christine: Sorry about the double post. I got anxious and posted before I thought.
Don
I had posted this already, in the wrong topic unfortunately. I had been a lot more distracted since I started school, so I skept the part were you were supposed to read the post before making the comment …
So this it wason 9/16
I started to write this after reading Gautami’s post about terrorism and their innocent victims. I open the newspaper today in my way to work and amid the Wall Street crisis and election blah, blah I am reading about another attack in the Delhi area.
This is about Israel, but it is meant for all the victims:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/09/innocent-readwritepoem44.html
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/09/elegy.html
I have an obvious response to this prompt “Sonnet for Sept. 11″ which I posted last Thursday, and a less obvious response, “bread” which I am about to publish!
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
btw, WordPress has a nifty publish option where you can make something publish in the future when you’re away from the internet, or asleep, or otherwise detained! I tried it out one time when I was going away and I had written a series of posts so I just put the dates on them and when I came back, they were posted as planned! wild!
http://throwshiswords.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/ripples-continue/
My Elegy for Fallen Leaves
(which isn’t about leaves)
A Desert Passage
I like the elegy form, but wasn’t able to write one for the prompt. I am very excited to read what others’ have done, and I’ll be reading and commenting later. (On foot patrol as well as major overtime at work for new space we opened so no computer access for a few days.)
In the meantime, I offer an american sentence
Push — http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com
An elegy for a marriage: In Place of Words
Thanks for understanding, Brian and gautami!
Yay, poetry!
Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/unopened-mornings
I’m afraid I haven’t managed to produce anything new this week. I’d just like to share a poem I wrote commemorating two momentous world events in the context of my own personal life. It’s to be published by the Forward Press in an anthology, ‘Southern Poets’ next year.
Remembrance
Here is mine:
on the long narrow stem of life
Not sure what I wrote about…………………
love-bd
my poem
I am late in posting this because I have been sick, but here is my offering for the prompt:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/09/14/superstar/
-Nicole
Here’s one about the in between of a tree, with a video.
Tree Bardo
Here’s mine: http://stoneymoss.org/2008/09/20/an-act-of-remembrance/
I managed to write a lot during the hurricane, so this is a remembrance of it!
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/23512.html
I think I’ll have another remembrance/elegy to post later.
i got on an elegy kick!
in addition to
sonnet to sept 11 and
bread,
i added one for a relationship gone splat (sunflower song)
and for a sunflower gone splat (pollen) and
added an elegy for my cat man ray plus one by the
poet mark irwin (as part of the post for broadside and chapbook contest)
thanks to those who have already come by and commented–hope you’ll be back for more!
Ready way early but I hope you like it. I have been on elegy kick too!
http://prodigalaspersions.blogspot.com/2008/09/elegy-for-reprobate.html
An elegy I wrote for my father. The first and last couplets are true elegicac couplets.
Hey I know this is a little out of order but you got to see this lady’s blog. It is an elegy to autumn. Classical music and all.
It was really cool! Country and different.:) You just have to see it to appreciate it. You know me and Poe.
http://thefabricofsweetrepose.blogspot.com/