by Jessica Fox-Wilson
Did you find yourself humming the spam song all week? Did you discover a hankering for Hormel? Or did you just find a few juicy tidbits (sorry I couldn’t resist) in the spam Read Write (Word) Prompt to cook into a poem? Leave a link to your spam-inspired poems here so we can all share in the fun!
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I got all 15 in, though I had to cheat a bit to make “chelations” and “cosmoramic” work:
After School
I cheated too and put “Croak” in the title – A Strange Croak
I did get a little carried away. The third one is the “real” spam poem. Ranic Cosmoramic
I always use all the words to compensate for my lack of poem..a quick job this week.
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
Here is mine. I used only some of the words.
Field Notes: Storm
I wrote a spam inspired poem a while ago. I needed to rant against the randomness of the spam flooding my inbox. The poem, called Junk Mail, is composed entirely of lines taken from my spam folder. The only resemblance to the prompt is the use of spam to create the poem. Enjoy.
Junk Mail
I had a lot of trouble with this one, but I’m curious to hear everyone’s opinions on the result – I’m not sure how ’spammy’ it is. Shoot! Flash! .
You’ll find mine here.
Was a bit of a “cheat” this week. I ended up using just one word from the prompt to feature prominently and give me my theme. But then, I wrote the same idea into two different types of poetry…see which one you prefer!
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
I used just a couple of words, one from Joan Houlihan’s wordle (since for the sake of economy I’m using the same poem for the New Formalism group’s “assignment” for this week) and one from the Spam wordle. My poem is called, Le Juif En Vert
I think I got all:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2009/10/exulting-mixture.html
My response to spam sucks.
spamming
I wrote my poem this morning and turned the words into my own little tirade on anti-social behaviour, which is even more annoying than spam! BTW, for those who may not know, the title, ‘ASBO’ stands for anti-social behaviour order.
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/10/asbo.html
This was so much fun getting back at all the spammers. Thank you Jessica!
Living In The Eastern Woodlands. My poem is Please Delete the Vehement Spam
Started with the prompt, got an idea, left the prompt for another day. Definitely a work in progress:
A.I.
always enjoy these wordle prompts, never know what direction i’m headed in until i get there. cheers and hope you enjoy my offering, Connie Smells Like Lillies
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/10/connie-smells-like-lillies.html
-lawrence
I just could not find anything worth saying about spam that was acceptable to a general audience of readers, nor did I want my name attached to a plethora of four letter words. So I wrote about sex (it’s only three letters).
Your secret irresistible voice
Thanks to Zouxzoux’s blog title for the inspiration and two wordle words.
“poetry spam” (not a poetry slam)
a very silly poem — no need to leave comments
http://theresebroderick.wordpress.com
In the midst of the wonderful Roctober Mini-Challenge, I was pleased to have gotten this poem made.
http://radio-nowhere.org/nb/?p=253
T’ain’t got no title…and thanks for reading!
I surprised myself by using a new technique with this set of words. This was a fun one.
http://zouxzoux.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/readwritepoem-96-spam/
Irresistible Investment: The Autism Cure.
Alas, I didn’t manage to write to the prompt this week, but here’s this week’s Torah poem for those who are interested:
Likeness (Bereshit)
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/10/this-weeks-poem-likeness.html
Delicious, delicious spam:
Night Music
I ended up doing two poems this week for the prompt, and both were also for the October Mini-Challenge.
Here’s #1: Blood
And here’s #2: Deconstruct
CULTURE VULTURES
There are some great Sonnets in
Form and Structure in Poetry
New Formalism Group
pgs 5 and 6
Worth a look!
I had been working on the 7-day Body of Work challenge, so don’t have anything on the fantastic spam Wordle prompt. You can read one of those body poems here, or I will see you next time!
Here we go: Vowel Cosmorama
A definitional poem:
My Chelation
I too did not manage to follow the prompt this week. However, here is a semi-poetic, semi-liturgical effort I wrote instead, titled “Litany of Blessing.”
I chose not to use a couple of the words which were too “out there” to mesh with the story that was longing to be told.
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2009/10/renegades-soul-progeny-readwritepoem-get-your-poem-on-96.html
Another Sonnet 2, a Petrarchan sonnet composed for an exercise for the RWP New Formalism group, uses 4 words from the spam wordle, in a followthrough to an earlier Petrarchan sonnet done for the same RWP group
I didn’t write about spam, but the words inspired two very different poems. Each used all the wonderful words. The first became too personal to share, so here’s the second:
October
I used them all – not a great poem, by any means, but fun to play with!
My piece “The Poet Calls for Collaboration” is here:
http://wp.me/pv41q-5b
here is mine for RWP96…
spam from THE SUMMER OF LOVE
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
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