by Deb Scott
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Deb Scott is community and news director for Read Write Poem. She also co-manages the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. In her other life she eats way too much, plays with her food and words, and blogs at Stoney Moss.













Ah, food! Bring a plate, or Just Bring Yourselves
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
My holiday poem is titled:
“CHANTILLY“
Hope everyone has a great holiday (non-Thanksgiving world can be thankful not to be in the stores come Friday)
mine is called dogbread
Mine is a bit too prosy, The Occasioned Meal, but it’s a poem.
Off to sleep, I’ll read you tomorrow and the next few days. Happy, happy.
Happy Thanksgiving!
My poem this week celebrates any feast/family get-together.
Christmas comes once a year
You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/science
This one of mine is entitled St. Patrick’s Day. Which fits with, um, Thanksgiving…?
Mine is nothing to do with food:
ah, those wee hours
Yeah, I skipped Thanksgiving and went right to Christmas… Hey, I’m Canadian; our Thanksgiving is in October.
Feast
My offering is here:
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/11/seaside-souvenir.html
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/09/social-stigma.html
A very different ‘feast’ here.
I gots one.
http://bluehookah.blogspot.com/2009/11/rwp-prompt.html
This week I managed two poems: a response to the RWP prompt, and a Torah poem! Here are links to both:
RWP prompt #102: Homemade
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/11/readwritepoem-prompt-102-homemade.html
This week’s Torah poem: Hatch
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/11/this-weeks-portion-hatch.html
With some help from Robert Frost, I wrote this contribution.
Living In The Eastern Woodlands. My poem is The Pumpkin Pie Not Taken
Here is where you will find my short piece.
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
Thanksgiving 1989
Inspired by wine, a favorite of mine
http://metaphysicworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/wine/
Be as candid as you desire! I can take it, I promise! Also, feel free to check out my other poem blog posts!
a bit of bread for Thanksgiving — happy day, everyone!
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/accident/
Still, First, Almost, Too Long:
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2009/11/still-first-almost-too-long.html
Various branches of my family become silly & irreverent on the holidays, so I wrote a poem (and a very long prose introduction you can skip) inspired by that kind of humor – Ben Franklin Writes to His Daughter; Hunters Call Wild Turkeys
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it!
Mangoes by the Road
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s mine: http://melaniesmasalamusings.blogspot.com/
Mine is a revision of a poem written a while back and has a smattering of food. http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/adelanto/
I wrote about hunger, which made me… hungry. And thankful for a day of eating. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
http://tinacelio.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/a-poem-on-food-and-hunger/
I tried something about thanksgiving(s) in another attempt to bring math terms to common language:
Anaïs: Family dinner
Happy Thanksgiving, for those in the United States who celebrate it! It’s great to see so many people writing to the prompt this week. I am very thankful for everyone’s participation here.
(These poems look like tasty morsels.)
Mine, not so tasty. I went a different direction with the prompt:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2009/11/24/intersection/
Happy holidays, everyone. The prompt took me in a weird direction
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/rwp-prompt-102-food-associations/
Hope everyone is having a pleasant holiday. Instead of a poem about food, of which I overindulged as usual, I ended up writing about thanksgiving, or more accurately gratitude, in this meditation about a poem by Robert Hayden,
Those Winter Sundays
Here’s my contribution for the week, inspired by my career plans!
Creation
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/11/creation.html
finally….here is mine Feast For Grandpa
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
Is this actually still open for input? If so, here goes:
http://makeda42.livejournal.com/48174.html
Deb Scott replied:
December 13th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
It is, but folks might not see it. You can add it to the current GYPO post & maybe more people will see your link (you don’t have to write to prompt, so it’s a-okay).