napowrimo #11: seen any good movies lately?
by Jill Crammond Wickham
Old movies. Name three. Pick one, research it, remember it, use it as an extended metaphor in a poem. Here is a poem for inspiration from Poetry Daily.
You get bonus points if you can name the movies mentioned. Extra, extra bonus points if you use the same movies in a poem of your own! (Points not redeemable, but very cool to have in one’s poetry pocket nonetheless!)
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A note from “admin”: This month, since we’re all trying to write every day, we’re leaving the comments open with each prompt so you can post links to your poems as you write them. So, go ahead and write your poem, post your poem (with a link to Read Write Poem and a Read Write Poem tag, if you would) and come back to this very spot and share your link with us.
Of course, if you’re a creature of habit, you can always post your links at next Thursday’s “Get Your Poem On” post. Who are we to mess around with what works for you?
And don’t forget to go read the poems of others in this wonderful writing community. We’re all in this NaPoWriMo “mess” (ha ha!) together; let’s support each other in the insanity that is writing (every day)!
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February 3, 2010 | 3:53 pmThe latest tour stop has been posted for Pamela Johnson Parker’s debut collection, A Walk Through the Memory Palace. Find out how Daniel Romo responded to the work at his blog, Peyote Soliloquies.
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February 2, 2010 | 6:12 pmHello, hello dear Read Write Poem community members! We are in the planning stages for NaPoWriMo. (What? Is that a groan I hear, or an excited exclamation?)
We are planning another prompt-every-day for those folks who love to write a daily poem in April (which is, as most of you know, National Poetry Month in the United States — although there is an international following of writing poetry every day in April, too, so it is not just about the States).
Anyway! This is a call for prompts because we want to run your ideas, one every day, in April. So here’s what to do:
- Prompts must be no more than 250 words, and we will take the first 30 that we receive.
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Joseph Harker provided our first stop in December, and you can find David Moolten’s review at Edible Detritus. David’s was followed by Dave Jarecki’s. Dave’s review is at his blog. Find Jill Crammond Wickham’s at Jillypoet: Mom Trying to Write.
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So right now, I have been playing around and having fun with different focuses. Generally I am more image-inclined. In this one, I tried to play with language and words a lot more whereas the poem for the 10th was more image based. Check me out. Let me know what you think.
Here’s My Day 10 from the West Coast.
No prompt was used
Dreams From a Frozen Planet:
http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2009/04/napowrimo-10.html
Didn’t use a prompt, but one of the Random Word thingies on the side..
Random Word = hinge
http://www.writeforlife2309poems.blogspot.com
New blog, just for poems ^
Here is mine from yesterday’s prompt:
#11
I am a different sort of girl.
People Who Like Sushi
afternoon matinee for #11:
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/04/afternoon-matinee.html
This if from yesterday’s prompt:
Breaking Zimmer’s Sentences
All our heroes
A little haiku for today.
Using prompt #8.
http://page247.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/napowrimo-11/
The Shady 80’s – a Warp-Speed Mix of 80’s Top PicsPoetry Month Challenge: What do you remember from the 1980’s? Can you name the ten movies that won the Academy Award for Best Picture from 1980 to 1989? Here’s a warp-speed rhyming roundup of Oscar’s favorites from the 1980s.http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1633794/the_shady_80s_a_warpspeed_mix_of_80s.html
Ah beloved movies. I put together a poem using 12 movie references including On the Waterfront.
It’s on my Facebook Notes
and
here
http://dash30dash.ning.com/profiles/blogs/movie-secrets-napowrimo-11
how many can you guess?
[...] For Read Write Poem’s prompt [...]
One of my all time favorite movies:
How He Measures Up
Didn’t follow the prompt.
http://cassandralee.tumblr.com/post/95243348
not actually followed this prompt.again.but
i danced with Luna, tonight
Ode to a Horny Toad.
Not much rhyme today, but I’m still on an animal theme. I’ll be back a bit later to read the poems of others. For now, I’ve got to get outside.
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/ode-to-a-horny-toad
Here’s my take on the prompt:
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/apology.html
playing catchup no 8 flames afire
This was a tough one. I have no good memories of going to the movies and remember lots of bad dates there!
Here is #11
EASY RIDER…….of course this was easy..oh ya
Another tough one for me.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-11-lets-go-to-movies.html
Hey! I actually used the prompt! I had no idea where this would go… walked around all day until the first line popped in my head. Easily my most personal so far. Wow.
http://missionimprovisational.blogspot.com/2009/04/frankly-my-dear.html
My poem today alludes to a classic old movie . . . which seems particularly appropriate this weekend.
EASTER EGG SONG
So here are two…one using the random writing prompt and the other just a haiku that jumped out of my journal.
Just Your Average Saturday at the Coffee House Pot Of Gold Haiku
Snagged one of my favorite old movies and played with what came from it.
http://starsandmuses.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/morality/
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2009/04/magnolia.html
Had trouble with this one.
bunny love … http://djkreutzer.com/moments/archives/407
*Whew* With 20 minutes to spare I’m FINALLY up and ready
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http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-it-mattersnapowrimo-11by-me.html
I’m even later than Lori — although I think I finished the poem by midnight — barely!
http://thisyearsblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/napowrimo-2009-day-11/
Here’s my poem inspired by Dr Zhivago
Was working on it… Late post, but I finished editing before midnight!
http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com/71066.html
I was traveling so this link is late – but here is my NaPoMo poem #11: Bohemian Nightfall
[...] NaPoWriMo #11 [...]
This is what I did for it. Late though, is that okay? It just so happened I saw a movie last night I wanted to write about, and when I saw this prompt, well …
http://knittingthewind-westering.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-kept-you-waiting-knowing-i-would-love.html
http://castles-and-circles-and-sunshine.tumblr.com/post/95977834/coraline
coraline.
oops. if you click my name in 37, it’ll go to the wrong poeeem.
I’m late with this, but working through a bit of blockage (sigh)…
You Forget I’m Already a Widow”
[...] This was loosely inspired by Read Write Poem’s prompt #11: Old movies. Name three. Pick one, research it, remember it, use it as an extended metaphor in a [...]
A bit late, but I’m feeling reasonably happy with this one.