by Dave Jarecki
Where did the narrative wallpaper take you? Did you fall into a story of wagons and bottles, trip into a memory of women in gowns? Did you watch a repetitious universe burn up in the glow? Or maybe you ran with David Berman’s fragment and followed the Pennsylvanian sunset back down the local mountain.
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Thanks for the prompt!
Mine is up:
Galena Whispers for RWP 112
Wallpaper Over The Cracks!
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
my wallpaper is in the attic
Mine is here: Precious
It’s good to be back after a grueling and wonderful January in Chicago!
My poem this week is prosaically titled:
“Wallpaper“
Thanks Dave. (Hmm… you seem to keep finding the child in me.)
Cowboys and horses
Loved loved loved this process. Will be writing more wallpaper (whether or not people recognize it is something else, naturally.
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2010/02/before-me-get-your-poem-on-112-.html
My poem’s subject rests, as it were, against the wallpaper. For the solution to this puny riddle, click on the name.
Some kind of interpretation: Corruptibility
My poem for get your poem on #112 is here.
and just incase, there → http://pasaery.wordpress.com/
This week’s is Prayer in an Empty Home. Hope you enjoy!
wallpaper room
You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/criminality
here is mine
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/01/fantasizing-about-glass.html
Thank you for the prompt. It took me way back.
Border Breach
This is my contribution!
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/02/me-in-colour.html
I was at a total loss about this prompt until Tuesday night when some car lights panned the dark walls of our living room and I was transported back to childhood…
hrrp://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
Cynthia Short replied:
February 4th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Let’s try this again, this time logged in and more awake!
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
Rented Rooms
Here ia my effort:
http://poemblaze.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/changing-wallpaper/
Matt Quinn replied:
February 4th, 2010 at 8:19 am
*is*. I wish there were an edit feature now….
My offering for this week:
Emmaus
A visit to the old neighborhood
The sidewalk that I walk upon is broken.
Dandelions have pushed up through the
Cracks
Spreading small suns that open at my feet.
The houses look worn and tired. Some have
Disappeared since we moved away. Every day
Of my childhood I walked to school and back,
Once I knew everyone’s name and they knew me.
The front porches where people sat and visited
Have all been boarded over. No one sits out
Side. The trees have disappeared from the tree
Lawns which were narrowed to make room for
Parking cars.
The cars that wait in front of the houses are old
And like the houses, need repairs. Some sit up
On cement blocks. Little piles of cigarette butts
Spread beneath the doors.
The sun shines brighter than it used to shine. It glares
Between the houses and off the bodies of the cars As
I walk, I feel lonely, The children would be in school…
The women inside the houses, the men, too, since the
Factories have gone away.
The door look as if they’ve been shut forever. All the
Windows have the blinds pulled down – why did I
Think it would be the same? I stoop to pick a
Dandelion, then change my mind.
Better to leave it there for the children .
That small reminder of nature’s beauty,
Almost vanished from their lives.
derrick replied:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:07 am
‘Never go back’, they say, and yet one is drawn to the place of childhood, which can never be the same when the innocence and wonder have gone. Lovely poem!
Deb Scott replied:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
All the telling details. My favorite is the little pile of cigarette butts.
Mine is short: Paper-thin Walls.
As I saw it…http://ofheart.wordpress.com/
I still can’t seem to fully grasp the concept of narrative wallpaper, and so I think I went a bit too literal with the wallpaper bit.
Mother bird takes a renter
hey, here it is… http://ofheart.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/my-garden-of-flowers/
This was a great prompt, Dave — thanks! My response is
2am feeding
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/02/read-write-prompt-112-the-narrative-wallpaper.html
Wallpaper
had another memory in mind originally but this one prevailed… http://motherveg.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/fire-escape-rwp-112/
Well, here is my narrative wallpaper:
http://musemesomepoetry.blogspot.com/
Dave, I love your idea of how powerfully the sun’s shining has an impact on a room and the people in it. I have accepted your wider invitation and in this case wrote about the rising, rather than setting, sun.
http://yourinnerceo.blogspot.com
Best/Allan
Hi,
I saw an interesting picture and wrote this
http://iverhyck.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/you-thought-i%e2%80%99d-gone-into-hibernation/
Can you come with me?
The universe through a window pane
Thanks for the prompt, Dave
this seems a little long for what it is attic landscape
Anaïs: Wallpaper (Nana)
It is long since I wrote, but here….
Here is mine: It is called ” My big sister”
I took this from real life memories. Thanks for the prompt Dave.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com
[...] wallpaper 2010 February 4 by barbarayoung This is very rough. And more than a little odd, and there are bits missing that I though I had written but can’t find, so it may be that I dreamed writing them, but it will have to do for now. written in response to the prompt, “narrative wallpaper” [...]
Excellent prompt. Here is mine:
http://synecdochicstuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/before-alpha-realizes-its-omega.html
Thanks for the terrific prompt. Here’s mine: http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/read-write-poem-narrative-wallpaper/
some boys bedrooms require great Courage
My narrative poem is called Out of Sync
at http://www.wendysmuse.blogspot.com
mine is up
http://verbasaurus.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/read-write-poem-she/
mine is up…ROOM OF DREAMS
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
Here is my link:
http://spiritsoflenapoetry.blogspot.com/2010/02/poem-wallpaper.html
I tried Changing My Narrative Wallpaper.
Nearly forgot to post.
http://survivorscribe.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/day-7-read-write-prompt-112-narrative-wallpaper/
This was difficult, and I look forward to reading others.
Domicile
http://makeda42.livejournal.com/54497.html
MarianV,
Lovely and full of imagery. Great job!
Pamela
To quote the white rabbit, “I’m late, I’m late”… but here it finally is:
There are these spots
Sigh. Late again. My goal for this next week is to actually post on Thursday!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2010/02/stripping-down.html