Comments on: napowrimo #7: love, funny side up http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/ Mon, 03 May 2010 01:01:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: wendi http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-18788 wendi Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:27:53 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-18788 http://jazzandpoetry.com/2010/04/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/ http://jazzandpoetry.com/2010/04/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/

]]> By: Alan Summers http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-18270 Alan Summers Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:29:32 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-18270 Well done everyone! And a nice double tanka from angelatopping just tops and concludes the prompt. ;-) Alan http://www.withwords.org.uk Well done everyone! And a nice double tanka from angelatopping just tops and concludes the prompt. ;-)

Alan
http://www.withwords.org.uk

]]> By: michelle http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-18264 michelle Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:45:50 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-18264 http://bitsandpieces.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up-2/ http://bitsandpieces.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up-2/

]]> By: angelatopping http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-18027 angelatopping Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:59:48 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-18027 Much Wenlock It’s now Eastertide catkins are springing in the woods six weeks since we met there are so many things to tell we wear out the day you help me from stiles let me clutch your arm’s hard knots on the steep descents this is walking on the edge my joke, your laughter. Much Wenlock

It’s now Eastertide
catkins are springing in the woods
six weeks since we met
there are so many things to tell
we wear out the day

you help me from stiles
let me clutch your arm’s hard knots
on the steep descents
this is walking on the edge
my joke, your laughter.

]]> By: robinamelia http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17963 robinamelia Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:08:06 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17963 I swear, these just get harder. Please, no more love prompts! http://daily-yawp.blogspot.com/2010/04/april-8.html I swear, these just get harder. Please, no more love prompts!

http://daily-yawp.blogspot.com/2010/04/april-8.html

]]> By: Jenn Jilks http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17855 Jenn Jilks Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:54:06 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17855 No love here, tired of that topic! fireflies beckon sparklers in the darkest night twinkling as beacons lovers lust in the moonlight shimmering flitting glow worm No love here, tired of that topic!

fireflies beckon
sparklers in the darkest night
twinkling as beacons
lovers lust in the moonlight
shimmering flitting glow worm

]]> By: laurashannon http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17801 laurashannon Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:45:33 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17801 http://thebooklife.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/4-7/ http://thebooklife.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/4-7/

]]> By: Alan Summers http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17767 Alan Summers Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:57:49 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17767 Everyone made a fantastic effort, well done! ;-) Other than the occasional misconception about syllables being the "form", there were good tanka, and also good intuitive ways of using the tanka spirit to create other types of poetry. Congratulations! Alan Everyone made a fantastic effort, well done! ;-)

Other than the occasional misconception about syllables being the “form”, there were good tanka, and also good intuitive ways of using the tanka spirit to create other types of poetry.

Congratulations!

Alan

]]> By: Zeenat Arsiwalla http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17756 Zeenat Arsiwalla Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:02:51 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17756 This was tough but I did it, here goes.. http://zevoice.blogspot.com/2010/04/vogue-exposed.html This was tough but I did it, here goes..

http://zevoice.blogspot.com/2010/04/vogue-exposed.html

]]> By: Ed http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17750 Ed Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:26:14 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17750 firstlast date april 7, 2010 thirteen years old, in the bluedarkness of the multiplex, feetstucktothefloor by yesteryear’s sodapop, hand.frozen.to.the.armrest by fear of rejection, i decide to drown my sorrows in a box of milk duds. thirteen years old, in the operaticlightness of the climax, ourfINg(T)ERs(LACE) like silk thread, herhairbrushesmyshoulder like sunshine and my mouth fills with blood; my milk dud made a meal of my molar. firstlast date
april 7, 2010
thirteen years old,
in the bluedarkness
of the multiplex,

feetstucktothefloor
by yesteryear’s sodapop,
hand.frozen.to.the.armrest
by fear of rejection,

i decide to drown
my sorrows
in a box of milk duds.

thirteen years old,
in the operaticlightness
of the climax,

ourfINg(T)ERs(LACE)
like silk thread,
herhairbrushesmyshoulder
like sunshine

and my mouth
fills
with
blood;

my milk dud
made a meal
of my molar.

]]> By: jimmmaaa http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17748 jimmmaaa Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:16:07 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17748 Here is another of my late night poems, NaPoWriMo # 7 http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-7-he-comes-quietly.html Here is another of my late night poems, NaPoWriMo # 7

http://brokeness.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-7-he-comes-quietly.html

]]> By: Stiletto http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17747 Stiletto Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:05:31 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17747 @Alan Summers: Thanks :D @Alan Summers: Thanks :D

]]> By: Maya http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17746 Maya Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:03:20 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17746 Unfortunately I couldn't get the prompt to work for me today :( http://mayaganesan.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-7.html Unfortunately I couldn’t get the prompt to work for me today :(

http://mayaganesan.blogspot.com/2010/04/napowrimo-7.html

]]> By: shade http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17743 shade Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:39:41 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17743 I couldn't do the prompt today, sorry! http://immortality-in-words.deviantart.com/art/NaPoWriMo-7-Life-159976982 I'm staring down at the back of the book, called "My Life So Far" and on it a satellite hovers in the black ink. There is an emptiness stretching itself, spreading its arms and legs and lying out, getting comfortable as the characters I've followed for sixteen years escape my lips as I exhale, it swallows me, esophagus downward, consumes the satellite and the words surrounding and the book becomes as good as blank. The bookshelf is large and librarious and enigmatic so as I toss this empty bound-parched paper into the dust where small foot prints still walk, I cover them again and search - I want a book not to small, too short- lived, and not too long- lived into wastefulness, one that will fit into the space as a planet; perfect, like the footprints in the dust, perfect. I couldn’t do the prompt today, sorry!

http://immortality-in-words.deviantart.com/art/NaPoWriMo-7-Life-159976982

I’m staring down
at the back of the
book, called “My Life
So Far” and on it
a satellite hovers
in the black ink.

There is an emptiness
stretching itself, spreading
its arms and legs
and lying out, getting
comfortable as the
characters I’ve followed for
sixteen years escape
my lips as I exhale, it
swallows me, esophagus
downward, consumes
the satellite and the
words surrounding and the
book becomes as good
as blank.

The bookshelf is
large and librarious
and enigmatic
so as I toss this
empty bound-parched
paper into the dust
where small foot prints
still walk, I cover them
again and search -

I want a book
not to small, too short-
lived, and not too long-
lived into wastefulness, one
that will fit into the
space
as a planet;
perfect,
like the footprints
in the dust,
perfect.

]]> By: rallentanda http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17736 rallentanda Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:10:18 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17736 Delightful, Susan! Delightful, Susan!

]]> By: toxi1 http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17728 toxi1 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:57:35 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17728 Six lines, but whatever. "Andy Warhol Exhibit" http://self-intoxication.deviantart.com/art/Andy-Warhol-Exhibit-159974884 Six lines, but whatever.

“Andy Warhol Exhibit”

http://self-intoxication.deviantart.com/art/Andy-Warhol-Exhibit-159974884

]]> By: Matt Blair http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17727 Matt Blair Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:53:28 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17727 It was kind of funny when it happened, but I'm not sure whether it comes across that way, nor quite the way I want it to. There aren't enough monosyllable verbs for playful aggression: <a href="http://surdus.posterous.com/back-to-fence" rel="nofollow">back to fence</a>. It was kind of funny when it happened, but I’m not sure whether it comes across that way, nor quite the way I want it to. There aren’t enough monosyllable verbs for playful aggression: back to fence.

]]> By: pamela sayers http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17726 pamela sayers Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:46:35 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17726 Susan, Sweet one! Pamela Susan,
Sweet one!
Pamela

]]> By: Stefanie Almendárez http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17725 Stefanie Almendárez Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:44:25 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17725 It took a while to decide on a funny moment, but then it came to me: "A true love story" Thanks Alan! It took a while to decide on a funny moment, but then it came to me: “A true love story” Thanks Alan!

]]> By: pamelavillars http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/04/07/napowrimo-7-love-funny-side-up/comment-page-3/#comment-17724 pamelavillars Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:42:33 +0000 http://readwritepoem.org/?p=10380#comment-17724 With a twist: http://pamelavillars.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/april-7-10-forbidden-love/ With a twist:

http://pamelavillars.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/april-7-10-forbidden-love/

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