Comments on: read write prompt #117: create a hinge, by zachary schomburg

By: Pie

Pie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:57:12 +0000

[...] my response to two Read Write Poem prompts, #117 and #118. I began with Zachary Schomberg’s Create A Hinge prompt, but couldn’t get the poem finished. This week’s Wordle prompt helped me to edit [...]

By: E Stelling

E Stelling — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:20:18 +0000

Are you reading my mind…

I have been MIA, but I am back…

By: AJV

AJV — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:10:25 +0000

What a great prompt. I have a feeling I’ll be braiding and re-braiding my poem for a while, but I’m so excited about it!

http://avniously.blogspot.com/2010/03/for-free.html

By: Avni

Avni — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:43 +0000

It’s a working draft, ready to be braided and re-braided with revision. What a great prompt!

By: Avni

Avni — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:55:52 +0000

This is my first shared post on RWP. This prompt was challenging, and I see my draft undergoing some re-braiding and un-braiding, but I’m excited about the prospect.

http://avniously.blogspot.com/2010/03/for-free.html

By: hinge: a favorite word – Stoney Moss

hinge: a favorite word – Stoney Moss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:49:22 +0000

[...] * * Rough first draft in response to Zachary Schomburg’s prompt over at Read Write Poem. It’s a great prompt, worthy of many, many more [...]

By: Double Dare « Deo Writer

Double Dare « Deo Writer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:34:57 +0000

[...] 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment Zachary Schomburg’s prompt, “create a hinge” has been with me all week. What a challenge! Not sure that I completed the prompt but it [...]

By: Joyce Ellen Davis

Joyce Ellen Davis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:34:20 +0000

Well, I DID try this, tho’ not sure I did it right. I like this prompt, and think I’ll try another one.

By: For it too will end « Donald Harbour

For it too will end « Donald Harbour — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:13:36 +0000

[...] son, Life, Poetry, son, unfulfilling, ungratified by Donald Harbour This poem is in response to Read Write Poem Prompt #117 from big Zac Schomburg “Create a hinge”, thus be we become unhinged. Smiles, thou who [...]

By: last things first « lost in translation

last things first « lost in translation — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:30:01 +0000

[...] Process notes: Read Write Poem prompt here. [...]

By: dale

dale — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:09:20 +0000

Wow, great prompt!

By: rallentanda

rallentanda — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:37:27 +0000

Thankyou for this generous and erudite comment
Therese.Some interesting ideas here.

By: Matt Quinn

Matt Quinn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:41:41 +0000

Great prompt. I am already scribbling away!

By: Poem: Confession (For RWP #117) « Raven’s Wing Poetry

Poem: Confession (For RWP #117) « Raven’s Wing Poetry — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:56:48 +0000

[...] This poem was written for Read Write Poem Prompt #117: Create A Hinge, by guest celebrity poet Zachary [...]

By: Therese L. Broderick

Therese L. Broderick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:31:04 +0000

I really like turns in poems — “verses” (turnings) or sonnet voltas or the turning of language from literal to figurative.

This essay makes me wonder — can it can be said that non-verse prose poems have turns too? Turns of logic? Turns of surreal imagery?

This prompt is really challenging. Perhaps it needs to be turned on its head! Here’s one way — maybe I’ll write about a concept or idea or abstraction which, for me, has died. I think of the book Necessary Losses, about cherished illusions or dreams that must be shed along the path to maturity. Or, perhaps I’ll write about Lot’s wife who stole a glance backward when she wasn’t supposed to (I can’t stop looking backward either). Or perhaps I’ll write about my favorite myth of Persephone — I think one interpretation is that her mother actually let her be stolen into the underworld (or at least looked the other way when the kidnapping was happening).

One of my most beloved sonnets about loss is Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet II” which starts “Time does not bring relief; you all have lied /
Who told me time would ease me of my pain! / I miss him…” A sonnet about the failure of time to “turn” away grief.