Comments on: get your poem on #78

By: Mike McLaren

Mike McLaren — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:30:24 +0000

I didn’t know her well… but we did take the bus.

http://www.humboldt1.com/%7Edobrothunder/pagecleo.html

By: wayne

wayne — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:46:37 +0000

here is mine….historical

By: Phil Thrift

Phil Thrift — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:49:01 +0000

(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

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:22:55 +0000

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.

By: Tiel Aisha Ansari

Tiel Aisha Ansari — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:40:59 +0000

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

By: Tiel Aisha Ansari

Tiel Aisha Ansari — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:39:27 +0000

testing…

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:28:50 +0000

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

By: Tiel Aisha Ansari

Tiel Aisha Ansari — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:20:00 +0000

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

By: Anthony North

Anthony North — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:38:01 +0000

You’ll find mine in this post:

http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/tony-on-the-easy-way

By: art predator

art predator — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:23:44 +0000

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.

By: Carolee

Carolee — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:05:56 +0000

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!

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:30:54 +0000

Here’s mine:

http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/06/royal-pain.html

I’ll be back later to read everyone else’s!

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:01:18 +0000

Here is my contribution. I found myself in conversation with John Donne. Robot Conversion

By: Donald Harbour

Donald Harbour — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:07:32 +0000

I suppose some would call this poetry, in a literary sense.

A date with Marilyn

Dreams do come true! Keep dreaming.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:01:07 +0000

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

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:56:11 +0000

my childhood hero inspired me on this one

By: Tiel Aisha Ansari

Tiel Aisha Ansari — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:30:14 +0000

I went on A Date with Ben Franklin

By: Rachel Barenblat

Rachel Barenblat — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:11:24 +0000

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

By: angie

angie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:18:30 +0000

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

By: lawrence gladeview

lawrence gladeview — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:00:31 +0000

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