by Carolee Sherwood
It’s good to see you again! I’m glad you followed the rules and marched straight back here after you wrote your poem.
But let that be where we part way with the rules. Allow your poetry to go where you cannot or do not go. Post links to your rebellion poems in the comment section.
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happy thanksgiving! i’m grateful for all of you who’ll stop by in between pieces of pie and grateful for all of you who’ll stop by in the days to come as you continue to digest the pie.
it’s in the middle of the night wednesday and i have hotel wifi for a bit before i crash and sleep but i wanted to send along holiday greetings and promise a link of my own soon!
I’m starting a series of poems on a very difficult subject that in some ways has to do with just who makes the rules, who breaks the rules, and the consequences. Here’s the first go, a work in progress itself (i.e., subject to change,) and part of a work in progress:
Of All The Trees In The Garden
Haven’t been here for a while. You’ll find mine in the post here. Enjoy.
Woohoo, not following the rules. What a brilliant prompt. It is responsibility of the artist to act against the dominant paradigm, to test and explore boundaries. After all you can only discover a boundary by crossing it. Artists should be anarchists, always breaking the rules and seeking freedom from convention. Let anarchy reign,
I haven’t been here in weeks, myself. Offering a prose poem for this prompt: Field Trip To The Art Museum (Wishing everyone a wonderful day; I’ll be back later, post-pie…)
Happy Thanksgiving to ‘my fellow Americans’, and to all — peace!
Rebel Rebel
Here’s mine: http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/11/kyrielle-for-top-not-following-rules.html
another one to gobble (down, up, at, …)
Looking Wimpy
Here’s mine ~
Our Rule
Could I also suggest that people link to their specific RWP posts and not their blogs in general? Does anybody else find this confusing?
For some, being together with family does not make a happy day. I wrote Thanksgiving for those who have hard time giving thanks. What wine goes with a dysfunctional family?
Thanksgiving
By they way, I am 49 years old today. And I have Thanksgiving and all holidays with a family of my choosing. So all is good for me today. I sincerely hope it is for you as well.
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and here is mine:
http://amidweststory.blogspot.com/2008/11/readwritepoem54.html
Good prompt, carolee. Here’s mine:
http://tinyurl.com/5tgwxl
I wrote a sonnet, and then tossed it around a lot.
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I happened to throw something together last night about breaking the rules by being tardy… not sure that I broke many poetry rules, but I think it fits.
the poem that came too late
Hullo!
I’ve only done one other poem here, but couldn’t resist not writing for the prompt. And true to spirit, I may have done the wrong thing but I wrote a prose poem/monologue, the monologue being first and then it goes into the prose poem. If it’s too long for folks here, don’t read it! >.<
Thanks!
http://ellenlenore.blogspot.com/2008/11/read-write-poem-prompt-54.html
I posted a 315 experiment poem “too bright for the stars.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
hmm…I’ll try this again…
http://ellenlenore.blogspot.com/2008/11/read-write-poem-prompt-54.html
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Well, here’s mine. Which is partly about breaking the rules, and partly about breaking The Rules.
Hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it!
Posting amy’s Wordle response:
http://asquarepegbreaksfree.blogspot.com/2008/11/sleep-interrupted.html
amy’s new. Go say hi if you are around.
Hi bb and everyone.
A link to the specific poem is best, yes. Agreed.
Pigeon at the Temple of Rats
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here’s one that breaks some of my own rules for writing. It’s a draft that I plan to work on.
http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/holiday
different kinda breaking the rules: did you know the moon, Jupiter & Venus are all lining up this week?
there’s a post about it on my blog–not too poetical but might be of interest–it’s just above my 315 poem
ok here are the links:
for the coool astronomy/astrology stuff:
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-trio-of-treats-venus-jupiter-new-moon-plus-pluto-in-capricorn-uranus-goes-direct/
AND
for the poem:
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/315-experiment-poem-august-8-2001-too-bright-for-stars/
and for something completely different but also possibly of interest–Gary Vaynerchuk on how to make $100,000 blogging:
http://winepredator.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/gary-vaynerchuks-advice-how-to-make-100000/
in 3 comments since if you put more than one link in the box it bogs things down…
and if all this is breaking the rules too much, the RWP folks can easily delete the extraneuousness of it all–no hard feelings!
so pleased so many posted despite it being a holiday here in the u.s.
despite a slow slow internet connection at my parents’ house, i made it around to almost everyone. we’re home now and maybe i can visit everyone else and post a piece of my own.
thanks for writing with me!