by Deb Scott
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2 poems this week – quite different from each other.
One uses all the words of this week’s Wordle. It is titled:
“INVESTIGATION”
The other is a response to Neil Reid’s second wonderful poem last week. It is titled:
“ETCETERA ARETECTE“
That footlocker threw me for a loop. Then I looked inside and found a pinup snapshot
Deb Scott replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Duly shook.
barbara_y replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 12:28 am
many thanks.
If you are an Oregonian and have (previously unpublished) frog poems to share, you might be interested in the Oregon Poetry Society’s call for frog poems (deadline is end of the month): http://www.oregonpoets.org/images/conferences/spring2010/ospaspring2010contestupdated.pdf .
If you live elsewhere here’s another frog poem contest: http://www.savethefrogs.com/poetry/ .
Just sayin’!
I wrote two poems from this prompt. It was enjoyable, though I realized after the poems were completed, that I had misread one of the words…
Mine is very strange (and aptly titled): What in God’s Name Was She Thinking?.
It’ll take me a while to get around to everyone this week. Crazy week, you know?
“Footlocker” kind of threw me off too. Best I could manage was this one…
Zoetrope
This was fun to do. I used every word except “frog.”
Princess Problems
My wordle muddle,
serenade with words
You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/economics
Well, this prompt this week taken to the very word, as many or as few, so this time, merely one. Won’t be hard to guess. Color me (this) faced!
mariquitas gusta comer
Running late this week…Smiles.
My personal challenge is to use all the words in the shortest possible verse.Any other wordle crazed addicted poet wanting to join me in a weekly challenge leave a message .This one was a 5 minute doddle.
‘Hades’
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-tidy-up-spilled-frosted-sugar.html
I didn’t use all the words, but 8 or 9 showed up.
http://bluehookah.blogspot.com/2010/02/wordle-prompt-rwp.html
Neil Reid replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Nice strong images to your poem, right through, including the tail!
(No way to reply on your blog, so here.)
DJ Vorreyer replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
No way to leave a comment with Open ID on your blog – I really enjoyed The preface to avalanche is patter,
its amphibian quickening,
and he who says the soul
seeks calm speaks fiction.
Beautiful.
Mine is here:
http://pasaery.wordpress.com/
A Green Farewell
The frog threw away his crown.
He was finished with those
Lubricious charms which had
Accompanied his princely status.
“Pure fiction,” he muttered as he
pried open his footlocker and removed
hammer, nails, a hacksaw and screw-
driver. No need to panic. He was
On his way; back to his beloved
Marshland with its smells of sweet decay,
And the companionship of his own kind.
Home – if he had to tip-toe on eggshells
All the way…
In those frosted hours
Before the dawn, no one noticed his
Royal red robe flung against the wall
Of brambles. No on heard the patter
Of his flat amphibious feet. The princess
Was occupied in the royal tower, examining
The local directories, intent on contacting
Every prince with the name of “Charming.”
Neil Reid replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Good for you! A whole new un-fairytale, and good companion to the rest. Just what a hard working frog needs once in a while! Very amusing and creative.
nelle replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Clever. And a clever frog to get out while the getting is good. I like the robe flung against the wall of brambles.
rallentanda replied:
February 19th, 2010 at 4:34 am
Liked the Prince Charming ending…clever!
I invite everyone to visit and read this poem and leave a comment to include your reaction to the piece. Seeking Forgiveness</a
I mananged two of the words in this little incident from last weekend.
Thanks!
I managed to get all the words in, even footlocker. & it’s on my new poetry blog.
yay, snow days!
http://another2doors.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/after/
I had fun with this
http://ofheart.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/kicking-frogs/
I didn’t get the chance to write for this weeks prompt…but I will sure be reading everyone else’s offerings!
Woot! I managed to use all the words!
Thankyou for this one, I had good fun with it
http://musemesomepoetry.blogspot.com/
Here is mine. Didn’t get all the words in but most! http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/playing-with-wordle/
The wordle always takes me in interesting directions:
A Fractured Froggy Tale”
I forgot how much I love Wordles! Here’s mine (I also forgot how to make the links look pretty…) http://jillypoet.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/urban-legend/
I’ve been away a couple of week, but am back with my offering:
Phantasmagoria
Wow! You people are quick or you must stay up all night! Here is my poem for this challenge Thanks Deb I enjoyed it.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/02/lubricious-men-frogs-and-loons.html
http://motherveg.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/dreams-potentate-prompt-114/
posting this in the correct place…whoops, getting used to the forum…
Used the words to write a Fro-mance
Yowza.
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2010/02/lizabelles-revenge-get-your-poem-on-114-ced2010.html
I used most all the words and came up with this:
http://poemblaze.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/rwp-114/
This was fun!
Mine’s up. Have a great week-end!
spatter
Mine, “Fanny,” is about Keats’s young lover, in which I use the word red.
http://yourinnerceo.blogspot.com
Anticipatory psalm 1
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/02/anticipatory-psalm-1-read-write-prompt-114.html
barbara_y replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I’m not certain my comment took, so I’ll say again how much I like this.
I didn’t use all the words, but I used most.
Back to basics
DJ Vorreyer replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
(muttering pretty snips of sentences while they dream)
Lovely idea!
I should have enough time next week to write a poem for GYPO. Looking forward to re-joining.
I didn’t see that making sense was required by the challenge. So in that spirit, here’s mine.
Slush Pile for RWP #114
Gardens Made from Words
nelle replied:
February 18th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
that should be nelle’s
a duck goes
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2010/02/back-biz.html
please enjoy!
lawrence
Here is mine.
http://survivorscribe.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/day-20-read-write-poem-prompt-114/
I used all the words for Croak
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Marian,
I love the fairytale you told here as if in modern day. Beautiful work!
Pamela
Here is mine – “sacrificial”
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/get-your-poem-on-114-wordle-war/
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Running behind, but better late than never:
Sibling Bolero
I did a triolet, I luv ‘em. It’s called “Can’t Revise Reality.”
http://evelynnalfred.blogspot.com/2010/02/triolet-thursday-triolet-22.html
Here’s mine–I tried a sestina.
http://spiritsoflenapoetry.blogspot.com/2010/02/get-your-poem-on-rainy-day.html
:Route: 66 Kicks
Oh, my calendar is so off today, here is the #114 poem
http://makeda42.livejournal.com/56402.html
What? Sometimes I feel we are all being RWP dittoed.
A fiction of creations folly
Been in Vancouver(my old hometown) for Olympics….but finally found some time for a poem for all over the map…HOME
http://www.waynepitchko.blogspot.com