by Carolee Sherwood
They used to say, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Now they’ll say, “Historical figures make strange bedfellows — and good poems.” Trot out your historical figure poems. I can’t wait to see what you all have been up to.
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Not an historical poem — a response to recent events: May & June 02009
Mine too isn’t about a historical figure:
dance baby, dance
Strictly speaking, this one is about an historical person.
(jesse) tree
“Heterodox”
http://innerlight-radiantlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/50-ways.html
tongue in cheek
http://eneri-hot.blogspot.com/2009/06/tiffin-with-raffles.html
I decided to take a bit of a different direction with this:
The Egyptian
I got my historical schwerve on with the following…
Disappearing Kiss
http://ying-ko-4.livejournal.com/153474.html
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this was a challenge this week! who to pick?? here’s my attempt…
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/06/sockdologizing-old-man-trap.html
thanks!
lawrence
Fourteen Months with Kit Carson is mine this week.
I love this prompt!!
and I took “genghis khan to the mall”–
http://therer2doors-thespacebetweenwords.blogspot.com/2009/06/taking-genghis-khan-to-mall.html
Alas, I didn’t make it to the RWP prompt this week, but I did stick to my discipline of writing & posting a weekly Torah poem. This one comes out of the Biblical story (Numbers 11) about the surplus of fallen quail, and it’s called
Apart
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/06/this-weeks-portion-apart.html
I went on A Date with Ben Franklin
my childhood hero inspired me on this one
This one took a lot of thought, but once I settled on my historical person, I couldn’t get the pen to stop.
http://texas2tennessee.blogspot.com/2009/06/afternoon-in-park-with-george.html
I suppose some would call this poetry, in a literary sense.
A date with Marilyn
Dreams do come true! Keep dreaming.
Here is my contribution. I found myself in conversation with John Donne.
Robot Conversion
Here’s mine:
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/06/royal-pain.html
I’ll be back later to read everyone else’s!
my poem isn’t ready yet. a few false starts. but i have been spending lots of time with amelia and there’ll be one soon. in the meantime, coming around to read!
I’ve been reading and writing about Ganesha and about the Dalai Lama recently and posted about both in the previous week.
But they’re not about getting a smooch on!
Here’s the link to the poem and post on the Dalai Lama:
http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/315am-poetry-no-fire-scent
I just bought a brass Ganesha from my yoga teacher. Maybe Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles, will take me on date soon. I’ll let you know how it goes. I know I’m itching to write already.
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/tony-on-the-easy-way
Hmm… I don’t see my comment, but the site isn’t letting me repost it. Is it stuck in the spam filter?
Here’s the link again: http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2009/06/date-with-ben-franklin.html
Here’s my contribution of the week:
To Chassé the Threshold of Beauty
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/06/to-chasse-threshold-of-beauty.html
testing…
OK, this is strange: the site won’t take my comments from Opera, but it will from Firefox. It didn’t have any trouble with Opera last week…
anyway here’s my Date with Ben Franklin
Tiel, your posts from Opera ended up in the spam filter. I fished them out so the system will (or at least should) learn that those are not spam.
(I goofed and put my post Thursday in the prompt post instead of here — Here it is again.)
Not strictly “historical” — it’s on a living “pop culture” dude:
Hanging out with Adam Lambert
here is mine….historical
I didn’t know her well… but we did take the bus.
http://www.humboldt1.com/%7Edobrothunder/pagecleo.html