by Christine Swint
So did you go fishing this week? Catch some great words that spun into tall tales or powerful poetry? Was it inspiring or refreshing or otherwise to delve into other’s words? What happened?!
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I did my word fishing in some favorite haiku by Basho:
http://throwshiswords.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/poem-silence-shimmering/
I read up on some local poets from the north west of England for my word fishing trip: http://sewina.blogspot.com
Mine is not exactly fishing. It has internal rhyming and end rhymes.
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/09/someday.html
Here’s a draft of my poem which uses words from poems by one of my favourite poets, Derek Mahon.
Plato’s Cave Re-visited
Here is my offering for the week. I used books from five poets I had around the house. Enjoy.
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/09/21/dreams/
-Nicole
Prelude to an Elizabethan Autumn
based on the five words that “jump out at me” from Shakespeare’s Sonnets
I didn’t write to the prompt (but might yet – it’s a good one!) so here’s something of a mash-up:
I Will Wake Up
I don’t know about this one.
love-bd
my poem
I’ve been on a tree binge lately.
I started off with five words from Crushed by Richard Siken, but I ended up not using them. Here are the words I chose:
smash, script, gasoline, sheen, bougainvillea
These words did influence the poem, however. ‘Gasoline’ made me think of fear, and ‘bougainvillea’ recalled beauty. I also used an image I read in this collection, of hands like birds, but I came up with that image before I read Siken’s book, when I wrote a chop suey poem for the poetry collaborative. Maybe ‘hands like birds’ is an image that has occurred to many of us.
Interview with a Hickory
Thanks to Rethabile, I did come up with this an american sentence
Argggg, wrong link, look here for an american sentence
Thanks Christine for such a nice prompt. Here’s mine:
“An Oak Tree”
I guess you’re not displaying pingbacks anymore, so here’s my link:
http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/09/25/finding-why-wind-turbines-kill-bats/
I’m not sure why the pingbacks aren’t showing anymore, Dave. Will try to suss it out.
i kinda did it–i did “i am” poems with groups of kids in my son’s k-1 class and then i did one in the comments.
i have another one up my sleeve–an idea anyway–just haven’t fished the words, i get too distracted by the loveliness of the poems! i will come back and say so if i do…
there’s some other ones new since last week, too, i think–one for fall, that would have fit into the elegy prompt i realize now!
http://artpredator.wordpress.com
Here’s mine: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-years
Oops. I got led astray by the words “word fishing”. It sounded like a great exercise though.
http://pipssqueaks.blogspot.com/2008/09/read-write-poem-word-fishing.html
I have no idea how to do pingbacks, even if you were displaying them. I’m a bit late this week, but at least I am writing again
Moths
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/25729.html
I posted this in the other entry re: GYPO #45 because I wasn’t able to be there yesterday (Thurs.) to do it, but I’ll post again!
we’re a little late but jill and i worked collaboratively on this one: here’s mine.