by Nathan Moore
How was your trip through the dictionary? I’m always surprised at just how many words there are out there. A project like this reminds me how few of them I usually use. I’m going to have a good time this week following your links. I might even learn a few new words!
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Dana dared me to be first. I lied and said I wouldn’t.
Peas & Dope
Animal Empathy ~ The Empathy Animal
Also of possible interest: Politics & Poetics – a repost
Here’s mine.
(I was a glutton at the word table. Bring Tums.)
I had a great time with the prompt, Nathan. So glad you suggested this.
Here is mine. This was a fantastic prompt, Nathan!
How to Influence the Virtual Machine
Also, I never made it to people’s sites last week, so I am reading those posts this week as well.
I flipped the dicky last night,
there’s something peachy about love
I went from a…z
A Bogus Creation
can’t write these
crazy couplets
dreadful dreary exercise
no fun and fatuous
get going grizzly
hit the homework ms indolent indulgence
you need jokes
jokes about kiwis
lots of laughter
maybe not
nothing nebulous or old fashioned
poignant perhaps
something quiet or religious
sentimental trivia uniquely vague or wafty
xeroxed on to a pink page
yellowing at the edges
you know yin and yang
like the sign of the zodiac
Is this a poem? You decide.
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/alphabetical-justification.html
This uses words between “information” and “age.” Perhaps I’m working out some post-MJ tabloid angst here.
The Publicist’s Problem
Thanks for participating, everybody (in whatever way you chose).
Mine gets some words between “anecdote” and “knot.”
http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/anecdote-of-the-impossible-knot
Nathan–thanks for this prompt! It was a lot of fun. I love Matthea Harvey…but I went a little ‘Robert Pinsky’ with it. And I have a new favorite word, too!
’somewhere between bosky and jaborandi’
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/somewhere-between-bosky-and-jaborandi/
here’s mine!
Preposterous I scream
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/07/dictionary.html
and oh, yeah–here’s a completely addictive visual dictionary for y’all:
http://is.gd/1Ia19
well nathan thanks for a difficult challenge this week. i don’t think i’ve picked up a physical dictionary in quite some time. this really got my pen going, amazing the directions we take when we have no set direction to begin with.
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/07/eighteen-wheeler.html
Chum Humming Goats or The Larynx that Loved Laredo
With bonus AUDIO coverage!
Alas, I didn’t manage to wrangle with the dictionary prompt this week. One poem a week seems to be what I can manage these days, and I’m committed to writing a Torah poem each week! That said, for anyone who’s interested, here’s this week’s Torah poem:
Record (Dvarim)
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/07/this-weeks-portion-record.html
I wrote it a while back and it fits:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/07/loves-dances-from-to-z.html
zomg poem:
http://namingconstellations.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/universal-gravitation/
i’m a dog. this is my poem called Whale Meat
Childhood Series Poem
Well, better late than never, I suppose! I’ll stop back by over the weekend to read everyone’s poems. Can’t wait to see what you all did with this!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/07/misgiving-itch.html
Holy crud, the poems are good this week. I’ve read about nine contributions, and I have to stop for the night because it’s simply overwhelming. We could make a chapbook out of these poems. Wow.
Late again but here it is