COME ONE, COME ALL/ May 28
by Carolee, Deb & Jill
It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — oh, it’s getting hot in here! — or any other inspiration from the week. (We love it when you write to our prompt, but we also love it when you write on a whim. We all know how fickle that muse can be.)
So leave a link to your blog post, or leave your poem itself, in the comments!
Let the show begin! This post is “sticky” — it will stay right here in the spotlight for you all weekend.
Here’s how prompts work under the Big Tent
You’ve got all week to write your poem, based on this week’s prompt. Come Fridays (today!) you’ll find a “Come One, Come All” post (this one!) where you can 1) leave a link to your poem or 2) leave the poem in its entirety.
We want to give you all weekend to post your work and read each others’ work. Take your time. Enjoy all the poems that are new to the world.
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One other thing
So it might be more than one. Read our barkers’ articles, if you haven’t recently. Great stuff. Here’s the list of links.
Let’s see if I get the link right this time (thanks Deb for fixing it last week): Slingback Noir
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2010/05/strawberry.html
rather sad, but good sad.
ViV
What a lovely poem. http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com
Love the tone of this, how the lover is left out of the love scene!
jealous of the aphrodisiacs (surrogate lovers). love that idea.
Here’s mine, cross-posted to We Write Poems because I wrote it as a combination response to both prompts for the week: Wrinkled Sheets
Here’s mine: This was fun!
“Crushed by Love”
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
My first attempt was almost pornographic, so here’s a silly one:
http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/big-tent-aphrodisiac-prompt
Here’s mine: APHRODISIAC EYES
I made a list!
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/tantalising-taste-buds.html
I’m not sure I was keepin the prompt fully front & center: Why He Comes Home
I have a senryu. http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com
Folks, it’s here: http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/pigeons-everywhere/
(Welcome to the Big Tent, Tilly! If you can leave a specific link next time that would be great! We suggest poets take three days (Fri-Sun) to read each other, and prolific bloggers can bury their poem response in a hurry. :-) )
Thanks Deb. Sorry, I’ve only been at this a year; I’m slow on the technical uptake. I see where I went wrong this time.
I loved the prompt!
Oh, not to worry! It’s just one of those fine points that others might learn from, too. xxoo
Hi everyone! Remember to post your link once, and if it doesn’t show up, be patient! We’ll grab you out of the spam. (But the more you post comments, thinking your comment hasn’t “taken” the more the filter thinks you’re spam!)
(I’ll be posting a little later in the weekend. Still working the ingredients!)
My poem is here.
An intriguing prompt. After looking at a number of sites I finally found one that listed blackberries as an aphrodisiac. My poem: http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2010/05/climbing-before-breakfast.html
This was a really fun prompt!
Verbal Potion
A line of verse can flush my cheeks to red.
From nape to forehead, it rises. Smooth lips
brush circles, whiskers against my skin, rough
is how I like it when the words slap
me, (but not too hard) brusquely, stressed, unstressed
iambic beats, metered breaths, inhaling
metaphors, cologne, mixing saliva
while pushing vowels against consonants.
Trochee me and I’ll spondee. Slower please,
please, if you’ll, I’ll, we’ll–– recite with me.
and a really passionate response. Bravo.
I like how you started with it being about words, but brought whiskers and cologne into the mix. Also, the build after “slap”…good stuff.
- Dina
“Trochee me and I’ll spondee” == ha! What a flirty little poem. Great title, too.
It’s a pleasure, truly, to read! Well done!
this is delightful: “Slower please,
please, if you’ll, I’ll, we’ll–– recite with me.”
This is a really clever response to the prompt.
http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com
Mine is not to the prompt:
undefined paths
http://theoddinkwell.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/aphrodisiac/
A stress-filled week brought a quick written ditty. It did make me realize how important Big Tent is to me. (I had to get something written!) Here it is…
http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/2010/05/baritone.html
My little poem in response.
delicious
This propmt led me into a very personal area, Thanks Carolee!
You will find “The Strong, Silent Type” here: http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
A fun prompt!
http://herwordsbloomed.blogspot.com/2010/05/big-tent-poetry-prompt-what-turns-you_28.html
I didn’t manage to write to the prompt, but here’s what I wrote this week:
Cresting the First Hill
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/05/another-mother-poem-cresting-the-first-hill.html
i can’t wait to read!
here’s mine:
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/big-tent-poetry-aphrodisiacs-notes/
…what turns me on — HeartFire
…and here’s one from my archives… Swoon!
Above the Cafe
As promised I have also written a Barry White poem for this occasion.
” Barry White’s Memorable Verse For The Lovelorn”
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
I took this one in a slightly cynical direction:
Stray Eros
A silly little poem, but it was fun to do…
http://lindagoin.com/2010/aphrodisiacs-for-your-pleasure.html
Thanks for a great prompt!
An old Aztecan belief.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/05/once-forbidden-for-its-passion-big-tent.html
Thanks for the prompt and the site!
A Virgin List
Aphrodite’s Job
We are wily creatures, we women,
we plant seeds in the minds of men,
watch those seeds grow into ideas
they think their own. We let them:
Yes sir, I will take an oyster
though it makes me feel so strange.
A glass of wine? I really shouldn’t.
But if you insist…
Oh no, sir! Please don’t touch!
I’m not that kind of girl.
A glass of wine, sir?
Just to settle my nerves.
A kiss,sir? Maybe just one.
Oh, it is the wine sir
that makes me swoon,
That makes me ache so.
Oh sir! You are a cad, sir!
You have seduced me, sir!
I’m not that kind of girl, sir.
Oh, yes I am, sir! LOL — fun poem. I liked how you were saying “no” when you really meant “yes.”
I like the play on “planting seeds.” Well done~
deb, i also like the first stanza very much, and maxie, i love how even her feigned resolve deteriorates as the poem progresses!
Great fun and rather clever. I like it!
http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com
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I assume there were handcuffs and a blindfold that “SIR!” provided… ;)
Oh, was I uncomfortable with this prompt. Had a lot to say, but my grandmother reads my blog, ya know?!
Got a little racy, but just had to hold back some….
http://mypoeticlicense.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/15-denier/
- Dina
My first attempt at a Big Tent prompt! Hope to jump in on them from now on…
Sharklight
Glad to see you here, Joseph! We’re happy to have you whenever you can be here.
[...] big tent poetry aphrodisiacs (notes) May 28, 2010 tags: big tent poetry, poetry by Carolee This week at Big Tent Poetry, we’re stirring it up a bit and asking circus-goers to write about aphrodisiacs. Oh, boy! This promises to be interesting. (Tempted to go see what everyone did with the prompt? Of course you are! Go see!) [...]
Sir Jasper? What a wily young innocent you are.
ViV
That was intended for Maxie Rumson. Sorry it’s in the wrong place. I wish we could delete and re-post!
Use the “reply” just under the comment you want to reply to, to “nest it.” (You can always send us a note. :-) )
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Here is my first attempt at this wonderful new site:
The Price of Love
Welcome to the Big Tent, Pam!!
Hello-
I’ve been taking a hiatus from writing poetry since I have finals approaching, but one came to mind today after watching “Democracy Now” on LinkTV.
It’s just called “B.P.”
http://babblingoninbabylon.com/blog.
Thanks!
~Mark
Welcome to the Big Tent. Fit us in when you can! (I love Democracy Now.)
Not an easy one for me (not random enough?). Then I saw the Poetic Asides prompt “Ways to…” and decided to smooosh the two together. ways to aphrodisia
My Greatest Aphrodisiac! Please click on my name.
A Lascivious Tray -a prosepoem- http://wp.me/sRMSr-32
(I deleted the previous/other comments. Your new site sent a “pingback,” which our site accepts, that’s how that works. But I deleted it to simplify posting. Hope that makes sense/ helps.)
Loved this prompt soo much had to write another.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/05/looking-for-something-big-tent-poetry.html
Here is my poem for the prompt – http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2010/05/29/love-recipe-for-a-starless-summer-evening/
This prompt was harder for me to respond to in a public forum than I expected – more uptight than I’d like to be, Iguess, but I did get to something that feels true.
http://victoria-andnowpoems.blogspot.com/2010/05/freedom-to.html
My poem is here:
Lonely
Here’s mine Satisfaction
the sane ones
I had to edit the last one.
Thanks Rall and Linda you are very cool.
Pamela
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/05/sometimes-it-is-bir-tent-poetry-42.html
Well, well, well. Mine is Recipes for Recreational Sex*, but it is really just a tease. And very much G-rated.
But now that it’s “done” I can have the pleasure of reading you all!