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Is everyone’s poetic self freshly scrubbed, soothed and refreshed by Mary Biddinger’s fantastic prompt? What was the process like? What did it feel like to really scrutinize your work and attempt to try something different?
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Well, I realized how much of a pretentious artiste I can sound when I write now.
Tried doing one that was a departure from the usual…
I Donne Strette
Out of the comfort zone( covered sex,linguistics
and social commentary,)in rhyming couplets.
Looking forward to returning to me!
‘Magritte.Ceci n’est pas une pipe.’
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
This was hard. I didn’t do well, but I tried.
My poem this week is titled:
“AND“
Loose, rambling, somewhat nonsensical.
inessential things
juliejordanscott replied:
February 16th, 2010 at 10:09 am
You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/damaged-planet
My response was The Second Person.
And if you haven’t been following this months challenge, then check out one or two of my responses – I’m quite proud of them.
This was a real growth experience for me…hope you enjoy the small poem that took me all week!
It’s called, “circa 1972″ and can be found here:
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/02/colouring-book.html
The 1st one that I finished ahead of time–
Certainty
http://makeda42.livejournal.com/54772.html
This was a great prompt. I knew without having to reread recent poems what my repeated motifs and words were likely to be (and sure enough, I was right) and it was great to try to write a poem which didn’t lean on any of those too-familiar things! The only thing I didn’t manage to change was the visual prosody of the poem on the page — I tried writing all in a block but couldn’t resist editing into couplets.
Anyway, here it is:
Walking and falling at the same time
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/02/another-mother-poem-for-read-write-prompt-113.html
Fabulous prompt, fabulous. I didn’t write to it this week, but will!
I do look forward to reading this week — and appreciate hearing how people did with the challenge.
Some local projects are demanding more of my time, so I’m not able to participate much in this month’s GYPO. I hope to get back here in March!
Muffin, muffin, who has the muffin?
They call her Big Momma
Well, here’s the poem… The Diamond as Big as the Ritz… and I have a separate post about the process, that’s linked to from the poem.
rob kistner replied:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Tried unsuccessfully to comment on your blog that “I enjoyed this piece”, and that “yes, we humans always long for what’s out there, just beyond…”
Mary, your wonderful prompt got me thinking about spa-earth and had me write in a string that I think of as three shells on a rawhide strand that I’ll wear as a bracelet at the Spa Dance at week’s end!
My offering this week is titled “Cleansing Storms.”
http://yourinnerceo.blogspot.com
Well, here is my attempt…
http://radio-nowhere.org/nb/?p=367
[...] poem was inspired by Prompt #113 on ReadWritePoem. This poem is based on a true event – someone did steal Uncle Lionel’s base drum a week [...]
Well, Cynthia and Donald, I did get a poem in between parades, after all!
WHO DAT!
Well, Cynthia and Donald, I did get a poem in between parades, after all.
WHO DAT!
Varmint
(Y’all might see this twice cuz I forgot to sign in the first time. My bad.)
Here is mine: The Incredible Corpse Dormitory. Quite a departure for me – process notes are included before the poem.
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/rwp-the-revision-spa-trying-something-new/
I spent a lot of time on this and ended up without a wildly different style – I may have tunnel vision or tunnel mind.
Poem for RWP #113
I found Mary’s process quite interesting. Three separate poems are evolving as a result. I hope to post each here. The first that felt complete came forth from a theme I’d been chasing regarding love and honesty… Naked
I didn’t do the prompt exactly, but I do have a poem up that veers away from my usual style: Hummingbird Heading Out to Sea
This poem arose from my personal reaction to Mary’s process: Hunting for the Mystery
Great idea for a prompt. I nailed down a different setting, but not sure I changed my style much, if any:
http://poemblaze.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/rwp-113/
This is the third and final poem prompted by Mary’s process. Pushing myself a bit outside my comfort zone, I explored a repetitive writing technique I’d been kicking around for a while. There may be a formal name for this technique, but I don’t know if there is? I also pursued rhyme in this work, something I seldom do. Shut Down
This weeks prompt: Write on a subject that makes you feel ill-at-ease using words you’ve never used before in a form you’ve never heard of and from a viewpoint you’ve never even driven past.
I did not quite manage all these things and it is not exactly how the prompt was worded, but I did try something new and different. I reviewed some recent poems of my own and read a lot of poetry (especially from, “The Making of a Poem” by Mark Strand & Eavan Boland). Once I got started it was actually fun. One or two lines even seem sort of ok, but the beginning will stop most readers before they get that far.
http://pasaery.wordpress.com/
Here’s what I worked on this week. http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-value-of-money-3/
I gave it a try: http://spiritsoflenapoetry.blogspot.com/2010/02/poem-in-city.html
This landed pretty lightly. I tried not to “rework” it much, let it be.
Writing you
Grown Up, or, Not a Revelation since Nothing Changed.
Trying to use more punctuation than usual was painful.
Alright, a second prompt response. More on point I think.
If there wasn’t a name for god
Sorry, late and light. Please see my poem here:
http://synecdochicstuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/purging-poetic-presention.html
In response to Neil Reid’s wonderful poem “If there wasn’t a name for god” written in response to my first poem for this prompt, here is my response titled:
“ETCETERA ARETECTE“
Here is mine…I find it hard to write “differnt”…do not really know what that means…however I did write this weeks poem from a different “place”… getting cleansed in a sauna.
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com
Man, it’s been a while since I posted here
Here’s my contribution for the week:
“Home”
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2010/02/home.html
I am finally here with mine. I have been so busy. I think I have pretty much stayed away from my usual writing. This was not an easy prompt. But oh how I enjoyed it! Thanks again Mary.
“in the woods by a river on a mountain on the edge of a cliff and a skyscraper”
http://fllaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/
oops! wrong blog address. this one is correct.
Finally. My contribution:
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2010/02/i-give-you-get-your-poem-on-113-the-therapeutic-writing-spa-.html