get your poem on #63

Grrr. Late again. Oops.

by Tom Adam

So, we all want to know: how well has randomness worked for you this week? Which is, of course, only relevant if you did that prompt, and not some variation thereof. Maybe you were inspired by the image?

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Donald Harbour

January 29th, 2009 at 9:35 am

Tom, I enjoyed the sestina. This was fun and a challenge given the random nouns.

The Heart is a vivant tableau.

gautami tripathy

I am still working on that sestina. What I initially wrote felt trash to me. So I gotta work it out again. Meanwhile I post another poem here:

digging doggedly

Kristen McHenry

January 29th, 2009 at 9:58 am

Here’s my attempt, although my nouns weren’t randomly selected:

http://thegoodtypist.blogspot.com/2009/01/read-write-poem-prompt-sestina_28.html

angie

January 29th, 2009 at 10:02 am

I did the image prompt:

http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/01/bead.html

Rachel Barenblat

January 29th, 2009 at 10:35 am

I didn’t use the random word generator; instead I chose six words from last week’s Torah portion (I’ve committed to writing a poem arising out of the Torah portion each week) and used those as the end-words. I’m pretty happy with the end result!

Charge

Tiel Aisha Ansari

January 29th, 2009 at 10:41 am

I used the random word generator for a sestina called Your Karma Ran Over My Fox

Lirone

January 29th, 2009 at 10:58 am

My random-word sestina :

stories from the surface

Sweet Talking Guy..

January 29th, 2009 at 11:07 am

Thanks for the prompt!

Here’s my attempt:

http://sewina.blogspot.com/2009/01/andy-sewina-they-said-ive-got-to-write.html

Art Predator

January 29th, 2009 at 11:45 am

I used the image prompt and wrote 5 6 line stanzas with a 1 line envoi–I think you’ll see why in the poem

http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/poem-this-is-not-my-story/

Carole

January 29th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

I’ve written a sestina (bringing my total to two). I’ve almost used random words, rejecting ‘insurance’ and ‘haircut’.

beyond the swamp

Sestina « Watermaid’s Weblog

January 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

[...] week’s challenge at Read Write Poem is to write a sestina. I have to confess that the sestina is my least favourite poetic form. [...]

carolee

January 29th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

mine is here:

the skin listening (a lesson in faith)

it’s a stretch for me. maybe. or maybe i’m just feeling stiff. anyway, i used the image prompt.

the post is password protected. if you need the password, you can email me for it: caroleesherwood (at) gmail (dot) com

January 29th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Inspired by Read Write Image #8. This is for Roxanne Swentzell, one of Native America’s truly great artists.

How the spirits came to speak.

January 29th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Okay, one more time……..

Christine

January 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

I started to use random nouns for my sestina, but after I clicked through several times and rejected many words, I figured I’d choose deliberately. But I did write a sestina!

Courting, 1955

I have password protected this poem. If you want the password and I haven’t sent it to you yet, you can email me at mariacristinapoesia at gmail dot com.