by Dana Guthrie Martin
Read Write What, you ask? Let me explain: We’re going to try a new thing here every Monday, which is sharing an additional prompt that you can use to jump-start your writing.
That’s right. Now you don’t just have the Read Write Prompt to look forward to but a prompt on Monday as well, one that is either word-based or visual in nature. We want these prompts to be short and sweet, and we’re going to shoot for them to be collaborative at least some of the time.
So now you can stick with writing pieces in response to Read Write Prompts (and now to the collaborative Read Write Prompts — do we know how to get the poetry party started or what?) or you can venture out and try your hand at our Monday prompts. Or, of course, you can do both. And feel free to share any- and everything you write each Thursday when we publish the Get Your Poem On post.
This week, we’re sharing a word-based prompt, a Wordle to be more precise. You may use any or all words from it to write a poem. Don’t worry. You aren’t restricted to just these words. You can mix in your own words as well. Last week, we asked participants to send in 10 words they love. This list represents words submitted by Dale Favier, Mark Moloney and Dave Royer. We have other lists of words in the pocket to use in coming weeks, and we’re always looking for more words. So send some along if you haven’t already: info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
OK, enough talk. Let’s all get our Wordle on, shall we? Oh, and one last thing: The image below is small, but it links through to the full-sized piece over on the Wordle site.
I love Wordle. I wordled one of my poems a couple of months or so back. It was really fun seeing my poem visually arranged.
And I think this will be a great writing “Monday Madness” tradition!!
Wouldn’t this wordie art make a great poster? Or bumper sticker. Or a T-shirt.
This was fun…
http://thebirdsings.com/2008/10/13/the-wind-today/
read write wordle:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/246028/Read.Write.Poem
Cool Wordle, Jeff. Where’d you get the words?
Oh, it’s our about statement, isn’t it. Cool.
Well, it might be kind of cheating to use your own favorite words, but I wrote one:
http://koshtra.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html#5272003884403768283
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/26831.html
October Day in Colorado
This was fun! Thanks
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haven’t submitted anything in a while
http://gameover709.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/dont-go-autumn/
[...] a few (or more) words in the comments along with the link to your work. And, if you responded to Read Write Word #1, feel free to leave a link here for that response as [...]
Hey, speaking of wordling everything, I think it’d be a great idea to have Jeff’s Wordle (RWP’s about statement) on a t-shirt or poster (Christine’s idea). That’s be teh awesome! I’d totally wear the t-shirt and have people wondering why I’m wearing words!! Hahaha!
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/10/readwritepoem48-words.html
I used only 8 words out of 30 – 3 in the title, but it was an interesting experience and a good exercise. I tried my best to built the poem around the words more than particular experiences and ideas. After a few attempts -the concept of someone’s belly as espresso fields won.
[...] challenged us with a collection of words. Since I am never one to ignore a dropped gauntlet (er.. except the 30-40 prompts I didn’t [...]
[...] poem was written in response to the read write poem word prompt #1. The words I chose from the list are anapest, tricksy, hooded, espresso, pestilent, and belly. As [...]
I think I’m a little late to the party, but here’s a poem I wrote with some fab words. I especially got into ‘anapest.” Thanks, Dana!
everything is a sign