COME ONE, COME ALL/ July 9
by Carolee, Deb & Jill
It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — change a word relationship — 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.)
Leave a link to your blog post, or leave your poem itself, in the comments! And remember: Although we love seeing our badge in the sidebar of your blog, we would appreciate it if you would also link back to the site in each of your poem posts. Linking within your post helps people travel back and forth from your site to the Big Tent Poetry site, and it helps perpetuate Big Tent Poetry “findability” in Google searches — and that helps us all.
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.
I got a little goofy, but here it is.
Sugar and Mice: Anti-Extermination Nursery Rhymes
http://georginasand.dreamwidth.org/12643.html
Georgie, Nice pieces. Whimisical. I enjoyed all three. Too many hoops to jump through for technology weak me to comment on your blog. Great work.
Me too Georgie. Very cute poem. Am in a nursery rhyme mood at the moment.
Like Brenda, I couldn’t fathom out how to leave a comment on the blog, but I wanted to say how much I enjoyed your adventures with nursery rhymes.
Good fun, Georgie.
(never saw millipedes dance, myself, but I’ll take your word for it since you’re right on all the other points)
Breakfast Lovers Fantasy
Zedhead
Garlic Dread
Enjoying all my reading.
I looked at the prompt again and came up with Tom Swift and the Poetics of Attribution
Started out with the idea of a “Grandmother Clock” but it ran away with me quite quickly in another direction. It became part V of a quasi-ekphrastic series I’ve been working on called “Like the Clay,” which you can read from the beginning here, or jump right to the prompt response here.
At first I had no idea how to get into this prompt – but I relaxed, read some of the others and then just dived in! So here’s my offering, entitled “Hawk and Cheese”. :)
http://lazylinerazmattazz.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/hawk-and-cheese-for-big-tent-poetry-prompt/
I didn’t have the nerve to post this, but certain members of my family insisted.
White as snot
Winter has its pleasures
Unless you’re a mother
Of three kids under seven
You go around stuffing
Spare Kleenex in your pockets
On the alert for that first drippy nose
Soon you’re annoyed by
That stuff in the sky. You
Capture a booger before
It grows bigger while the
Younger ones are dribbling
Down to their chins.
Those who admire snow
You can tell them where to go
You wish global warming
Would hurry its arrival
Or else your survival
Depends on heading south.
That capture a booger line made me laugh.
I can see why the family encourage you to post this.
got a chuckle from it.
Apparently I did not post my poem.. *boohoo*
why we write poems
But here it is! :-)
http://thursdaypoetsrallypoetry.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/outstanding-poetry-communities-to-share/
I am thrilled to know your site,
I have a post representing your community,
please feel free to check it out!