Poetry Mini-Challenges

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• carolee said 5 months ago:

  Links/poems 2 of 5 in the September Poetry Mini-Challenge

• Mallery said 5 months ago:

  Here is my second poem: Strangers

  I’m finding this challenge harder than I expected! I listen and listen, and I just don’t seem to hear anything that I deem “interesting enough” to write about. And of course, once I just make myself write about the next thing I hear, no matter how interesting I think it is, it turns into a draft of a poem. A good lesson for free-writing; you can’t judge the topic of the writing before you start.

• barbara_y said 5 months ago:

  This one’s a bit silly, but I had fun with it
  Eavesdropping #2
  Big Band

• Therese L. Broderick said 5 months ago:

  Today at 5 am, I wrote a 7-line poem.

  Here it is–

  http://theresebroderick.wordpress.com/rwp-mini-challenges/

• Tiel Aisha Ansari said 5 months ago:

  Today I have a Conversation Overheard in Downtown Hood River

• Just Someone said 5 months ago:

  Day:2 Hope I can go on till Day 5:)

  http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2009/09/din-in-train.html

• Marian Veverka said 5 months ago:

  Parking Lot Drama

  What could they be saying, the young guy in
  Tight jeans
  The heavy-set lady shaking her head?
  Their voices like hisses
  Their words undetectable
  When they moved in my direction
  I hurried away.
  From the anger that traveled
  Through the parking lot gravel
  An electrical current
  That broadcast to all-
  Their thoughts and their hatred
  That poisoned the air.
  What a relief when I finally
  Spotted my car
  Drove the heck out of there.

• rob kistner said 5 months ago:

  The world outside The Window.

• Jessica GC said 5 months ago:

  This challenge has proved to be much harder than I thought it would be.

  http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/09/still-listening.html

• carolee said 5 months ago:

  this is so true — “you can’t judge the topic of the writing before you start.” a good reminder for all of us.

  i struggled a bit also — tried and tried last night to overhear something “poem-able” while at our last minor league baseball game, but came up empty.

  and then tonight, out of nowhere, sounds started landing in my ear, poem-able sounds. it takes a bit for the ear to trust itself, i think!