by Dana Guthrie Martin
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OK, time to get our poems on!
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Dana Guthrie Martin is the founder of Read Write Poem. She writes things and stuff. Most of the time, her things and stuff happen to be poetry, or at least they call themselves poetry. She has a robot named Feldman. He’s writing a book of poems.
Let’s go! Time to get our poems on. Woohoo!
I was going to wait until morning, but since you asked all nice-like:
Saint Tina Marie
Dave, I am nothing if not nice. Now poem, Poet! Poem!
I am using poem as a verb there, because it *is* a verb.
Hey! Jon and I invented a cartoon today. It’s called Jerry & Logurt. It’s about a guinea pig (Jerry) and his best friend (Logurt), who is a worm.
(It’s also what came out when we were trying to say the words “jelly” and “yogurt” as we put our groceries away this evening.)
This was a pretty interesting prompt. (:
The Lion’s Den
That sounds like a wonderful cartoon! Do you envision it as an animated feature or a serial strip?
Dana Guthrie Martin replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 1:17 am
I dunno. I am more into developing the storyline. How did the guinea pig and the worm become friends? Does anyone know they are friends, or do they keep their friendship a secret? Stuff like that.
As above, so:
Below
Andre Tan replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 1:30 am
I fixed your link for you Ted, so I deleted your follow-up comment.
Dana Guthrie Martin replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Oh, that was nice of you, A-man.
Ted Simkins replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Thanks Andre! Could you post an example using proper syntax for links?
Dana Guthrie Martin replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Crud! I tried to show you the link code, but it keeps turning into a link, even when I change specific characters for purposes of demonstration. Doh!
You can go to About > Get the Read Write Poem Badge! and look at the code on that page to see how link code works. You can also simply copy your permalink and paste it. Our template will turn the permalink into a working link.
Here is my effort. I love the letter o, so I challenged myself to use the letter i instead.
Dana Guthrie Martin replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! I know it’s later where you are …. but I just woke up to your birthday here!
I’ll work on a poem for you. I don’t know if I can make one. But I shall try. Why don’t you shoot me a handful of words to use and I can build the poem around them?
Catherine replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Oh! I slept in and I’m late for work. But…
stippled
follicle
ramshackle
ocean
meniscus
If you can make a poem out of those, you are a marvel indeed!
Alright, OK. Here’s mine:
Homeboy Bot ™
And then I also made a Homeboy Bot ™ pattern:
Homeboy Bot ™ Pattern
B grade film buffs of a certain age might guess
the source of this very silly poem.
(o and oo in every line.)
Last love call of the Canadian Mountie
Sergeant Bruce was marooned on the summit
rooted booted alone and stoned
buttons popping belt dropping
uniform tossed arms crossed hootin and hollerin
across the canyon to the moon
‘I am calling youuuuuuuuuuuuu’
echoed back gun shootin hoons
‘I will answer tooooooooooooo’
rude crude toons and taunts
swooning he blanched
quickly rebooted and repantsed
praying for a goon platoon
or soon at least an avalanche
Derrick replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 3:57 am
Rallentanda, that poems a hoot! Love it. And who wouldn’t remember Jeanette and Nelson?!
Cynthia Short replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:12 am
I can just see nelson Eddy old, fat and drunk…you are crazy, girl! How fun!
Linda Fraser replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I’ve heard the Canadian Mounties may be on their last love call and I think your poem has sealed the deal. It is the perfect send off! This is my first visit to read your poem. I thought it was very funny. Swooning fits so expressively. Thanks for posting it!
I hope it somewhat fits the prompt,
the hustler
Here’s my attempt: . I’m not sure I’m cut out for all this prompting. But when first you don’t succeed: Try, try again!
Damian replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Whoops, what did I do there? Anyway, click on the crazy link, and you shall find your way to my poem, entitled ‘We were a balloon’.
You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/non-novel-novels
rallentanda replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 5:37 am
@ Anthony North
‘Wi can spake if wi’yant jist like thee
but only with graaate difficulteeee’
Good on thee lud…your poem is jist what wi’yant.
Dana Guthrie Martin replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Are we writing new languages here? If so, I want in on that noise.
Hope mine qualifies!
your yellow shirt contrasts with the pillar
Cynthia Short replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Oh, a ghosty! I liked this a lot..felt very eerie.
My mind was blank at the start of this assignment, so I used a line from last week’s poem as the inspiration. Hope you like it.
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/08/love-blossomed-in-desert.html
Featuring the round resound of the sound of “O”. Here is Dark Dock>!
OK, I went for the “I” sounds: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/in-the-wild-i-testify/
Dana Guthrie Martin replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Go see Catherine. It’s her birthday and her poem uses “i”s, too.
Nathan replied:
August 14th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I did! And it’s great. I didn’t realize it was her birthday, though. Happy birthday, Catherine!
Mine is now up! This is fun.
http://synecdochicstuff.blogspot.com/
Vowel erotica!!! AAAAEEEEIIIOOOOUUUUU
First crack full of sand
I chose a vowel that I didn’t really like at first but the exercise made me appreciate it. I used the 301 critique forum to tighten it up which was very helpful.
Bruised
I couldn’t do the vowel thing. My muse was all hung up on alliteration and assonance this week. My offering is here:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2009/08/11/revelation/
I tried for ‘o’ but it became less about sound and more about curtains…
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/uncovered/
Let’s see if I can do the code
eeeeasing
(if it doesn’t work: http://briarcat.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/eeeeasing/ )
Cynthia Short replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Left message on your poetry site, but this is about your thumbnail. Girl, which Southpark character are you? Love it!
Barbara replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Chuckle. That’s my inner redhead.
http://www.sp-studio.de/
lets you make your own. Red’s a bit photoshopped, too.
rob kistner replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Thanks for the cool SP link. I did myself…
Here is a link to my blog where you will find a poems called “Vampires” for this Poetry Prompt #87. I used the oo’s sound, and to me the list of words just lent themselves to this “sp oo ky theme!
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com/
Wow! You guys get up early! Here is mine:
Ode to U
oooooh
this was so challenging!
The Lone Rooster
I wrote a poem about I and Ragnarok
Cynthia Short replied:
August 13th, 2009 at 9:38 am
This was done so well, it amazes me!
Crossing fingers, hoping this works…!
http://namingconstellations.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/october/
I loved the prompt, but am way behind … here’s my first for the madwomen mini-challenge: Exhume.
Read you guys later in the week. Yay, poems! Yay, poets!
rallentanda,
I liked what you wrote here!
Poem: Show Yourself
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2009/08/poem-show-yourself.html#more
Lots of posts this week… such a good thing!
This week I actually managed to write a weekly Torah poem which responds to the prompt! It’s here:
Ear
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/08/this-weeks-portion-ear.html
I actually tried two: one with short i sounds (Spring Incantation) and a short one with short u sounds (Summer Hunger)…let me know what you think at:
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/read-write-poem-prompt-87-oooooeeeeeaaaaa/
A finish poem. Oh joy!
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/08/ooh-la-la-or-calling-number-87.html
Hope you enjoy my poem. It’s kind of corny!
http://livingintheeasternwoodlands.blogspot.com
Hope you enjoy my poem. It’s kind of corny!
country cobs of sweetcorn
rallentanda replied:
August 14th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Linda your blogger wouldn’t take my comment. Liked your poem and especially liked your
canadian canoe thing
Mine is O or is it u
Dust it off
Mine is O or is it u
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/08/dust-it-off.html
I’ll be back by later to read everyone’s!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/08/pooling.html
Barbara replied:
August 14th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Blogger wouldn’t take my comment, but I like your image.
here’s mine! i chose the ΓΌ sound. as in ooooh-la-la (yep, it’s in there!)
“you’re being pursued” (process notes and a link to the poem
Here is mine using “O”
hOt cOrner
http://www.waynepitchko.blogspot.com
Linda please feel free to give copies of this poem to all of your Canadian Mountie cronies
and please…tell them no more fan mail!
Wayne Pitchko replied:
August 14th, 2009 at 1:32 am
our canadian mounties aint what they use to be….sad to say
Hello!
I don’t know, perhaps I’m late.
If no, I’d like to know what you think about my works (http://iverhyck.wordpress.com)
Cynthia Short replied:
August 14th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
sorry iverhyck, I couldn’t get your post to come up!
iverhyck replied:
August 15th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Sorry Cynthia,
perhaps you’d like to visit http://iverhyck.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php
Cynthia Short replied:
August 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
NOW I’ve found it! Your poems are such fun! Slice of life, family, normal (evil) children…I love them!
Thanks to Carolee’s rhyming dictionary, I had lots of fun with O! On the Other Side of the Mystery, You Are a Bird Not a Bride
Not sure where to go with this kind of silly question. Is there a vocabulary of simple comment? I like your… I love… Neat… While I don’t say anything I don’t mean, I feel like a rubber stamp after a bit.
Dave Bonta replied:
August 16th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Good question. I try to mean what I say so sincerely that each comment will seem new, even if it uses the same words as the last comment, but it’s tough. The same problem sometimes comes up in responding to comments, as well.
I am so late to this -sorry!- but I just got back from vacation. My poem is here -
http://bluehookah.blogspot.com/2009/08/rubber-spatula.html
using the beautiful English /ae/ sound…
I’m playing catch up and going backwards through the prompts I missed whenever I have spare time.
I wrote A Long Sigh for this one.