COME ONE, COME ALL/ July 2

July 2, 2010
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by Carolee, Deb & Jill

It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — write a conversation poem — 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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Circus etiquette

We figure you know how to play in the poetry community, but here are the basics:

Be nice. Have fun. Remember we aren’t a critique forum. We want to support each other as we bring more poetry into our lives. Only provide critique if someone specifically asks for it.

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.

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  1. Rallentanda on July 2, 2010 at 12:08 am

    ” I Don’t Wanna Play In Your Yard ”
    Big Tent Poetry Prompt ( Conversation )

    http://rallentanda.blogspot.com

    • Rallentanda on July 2, 2010 at 7:33 am

      Evidently my poem is difficult to find.Sorry, it is in the comments section (4th down)

      • Dave on July 2, 2010 at 10:22 am

        Still can’t find it. Why not just leave the permalink? If it’s a comment, the permalink can be found by left-clicking on the date, just as with posts in your template.

  2. Tumblewords on July 2, 2010 at 12:10 am

    Gossip Tree

  4. Stan Ski on July 2, 2010 at 12:44 am

    Here’s mine: Q & A

  5. Francis Scudellari on July 2, 2010 at 12:53 am

    Here’s my imaginary conversation:
    Knowing

  6. Elizabeth on July 2, 2010 at 1:01 am

    Two for one this week.

    Two very different Conversations

    http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/

  7. brenda w on July 2, 2010 at 1:46 am

    Mine is questions asked by a student last fall. I told him I would consider them until spring, and then respond. My response in person was toned down from this response, but carried a similar message. I appreciate the opportunity to explore this. This is my favorite prompt, as far as the process unfolded.

    Warning: graphic content.

    http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/2010/07/responding-to-victor.html

  10. derrick2 on July 2, 2010 at 5:03 am

    Glad to be back inside the tent this week! My conversation is here:

    http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/07/chatting-on-bus.html

    • Stan Ski on July 2, 2010 at 5:18 am

      I couldn’t comment, but you gave a fine history lesson, Derrick.
      Your conversation asked some searching questions.

      • derrick2 on July 2, 2010 at 8:06 am

        Sorry you had a prob. Thanks, Stan.

  11. rob kistner on July 2, 2010 at 5:09 am

    Questions — some simply have no answer…

    • rob kistner on July 2, 2010 at 5:15 am

      Flash Dance — Happy 4th of July!!

      • rob kistner on July 2, 2010 at 5:17 am

        The above are 3 off-topic offerings to celebrate our county’s birthday… ;)

        • Deb on July 2, 2010 at 8:40 am

          America’s birthday!! – Although perhaps (I haven’t read) they celebrate this week’s Canadian celebration.

          Yay for the international-blogosphere!

          (And thanks for the celebratory poems, too, Rob.)

  12. nan on July 2, 2010 at 5:44 am

    Here is my one-way conversation.

  13. Robert Lloyd on July 2, 2010 at 6:04 am

    I rather enjoyed this style. Thank you for the prompt Big Tent and rest is peace AI!

    Here is my Conversation Poem

    Fight For Your Marriage
    http://burdensandsmiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/fight-for-your-marriage.html

  14. Nicole Nicholson on July 2, 2010 at 6:07 am

    Here’s my offering for the week:

    Water

    -Nicole

  15. Joseph Harker on July 2, 2010 at 6:26 am

    Inquiring minds want to know, Why Can’t We Marry Yet?

  17. barbara on July 2, 2010 at 6:31 am

    I came up blank on this, so I adapted some conversations from the Brothers Grimm about creation and The Duration of Life

  18. Donald Harbour on July 2, 2010 at 6:40 am

    When love has gone a relationship is a one sided conversation:
    This wine is sour

  19. Mallery on July 2, 2010 at 6:47 am

    This one is a bit out of my usual style.

  21. mark on July 2, 2010 at 7:02 am

    I hate to do this, but for my own reasons, I am password protecting my post for this week…

    http://radio-nowhere.org/nb/?page_id=435

    Will take you to the request page. Just drop a comment there and I’ll send along the password and proper link. Sorry for the inconvenience.

  22. Cynthia Short on July 2, 2010 at 7:05 am

    I really enjoyed this prompt, and where it took my thoughts…
    You’ll find my poem here: http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com

    • Deb on July 2, 2010 at 8:43 am

      Hi Twitches! Welcome to the Big Tent!

      • twitches on July 2, 2010 at 1:58 pm

        Thanks! Glad to be here.

  24. angie on July 2, 2010 at 7:46 am

    here’s mine — http://another2doors.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/unnecessary-subjects/

  25. Marian Veverka on July 2, 2010 at 8:18 am

    A poem “Only Quesetions, Never Answers” hopefully found on
    http://www.marianv.blog.co.uk

    • Robert Lloyd on July 2, 2010 at 9:56 am

      Marian I was unable to access your poem. Thought Id let you know.

      • Elizabeth on July 2, 2010 at 2:52 pm

        I could access the poem, but it wouldn’t allow my comment: brave is a good word, I’m not there yet.

        Elizabeth

    • pamela on July 2, 2010 at 1:37 pm

      Neither could I.
      Pamela

    • Deb on July 2, 2010 at 2:03 pm

      I corrected the address. Should work now.

      (Had an extra http in there, and an extra dot at the end.)

      • vivienne blake on July 2, 2010 at 2:09 pm

        nope. Still didn’t work.

        • Deb on July 2, 2010 at 4:04 pm

          Hmm. Worked for me. Try copying the link into your browser window.

          • Marian Veverka on July 2, 2010 at 7:08 pm

            Sorry about this. It takes me a while to catch on to computer things. My youngest daughter will be here tomorrow. She can help.
            Thanks, Marian

  26. Rachel Barenblat on July 2, 2010 at 8:25 am

    I didn’t wind up writing to the prompt, but here’s this week’s work:

    Song for the sixth day
    http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/07/another-mother-psalm-song-for-the-sixth-day.html

  27. Weasel on July 2, 2010 at 8:28 am

    http://systematicweasel.blogspot.com/2010/06/oracle-of-heat-big-tent-poetry.html

    My take on the prompt is called Summertime. I liked the prompt this time, conversation poetry seems a bit difficult to me.

    -Weasel

  28. Deb on July 2, 2010 at 8:42 am

    The spam filter is an over-achiever today. It grabbed some of our regulars as well as new folks.

    Try to post only once, or it thinks you really are spam. :-)

    Oh! And nice to see you all here!

  29. Diane Truswell on July 2, 2010 at 8:47 am

    Here’s mine:

    Mother-Son Conversation

    http://troublebeingstrong.blogspot.com/2010/07/mother-son-conversation.html

  30. Mory Keita on July 2, 2010 at 9:04 am

    Here is my poem

    To Anny,My heart: http://teslawall.blogspot.com/2010/06/to-annie-my-heart.html

    A boy answers his lovers daily questions about love.

    • Deb on July 2, 2010 at 4:05 pm

      Hi Mory! I think you might be new here. Welcome!

      • Mory Keita on July 2, 2010 at 5:19 pm

        Yes indeed i am new here and to the blogging world.

        Thank you for your warm welcome!

  31. conversation poem for big tent poetry « carolee sherwood on July 2, 2010 at 9:41 am

    [...] But it’s now or never! (Well, not really, but that’s what prompts and deadlines are sort of about, that forced opportunity.) Be sure to visit the other circus-goers and their poems: links are here! [...]

  32. carolee on July 2, 2010 at 9:43 am

    here’s my conversation poem:

    http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/conversation-poem-for-big-tent-poetry/

    back to read later!

  33. EKSwitaj on July 2, 2010 at 9:59 am

    Conversation Starters

  34. pamela on July 2, 2010 at 11:00 am

    Thanks for a great prompt!
    A new form of writing for me.

    http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-does-it-feel-big-tent-poetry-9.html

    • Sharp Little Pencil on July 3, 2010 at 9:35 pm

      I agree, Pamela. Got to talk with Mary Magdalene, myself. Now off to read your blog and comment there! Amy

  35. Julie Jordan Scott on July 2, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    I had a splendid conversation with Hildegard de Bingen today. Simply splendid!

    http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2010/07/hildy-and-me.html

  36. Linda Frances on July 2, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    I’m in Maine on vacation and didn’t anticipate writing something for this prompt. Yesterday, a day we didn’t hike, we went to Sullivan , Maine to Obadiah’s sculpture studio. Obadiah lives on land that includes a granite quarry. After traveling on a narrow dirt road we arrived. A wooden sign announced that this was the place. Chickens and roosters were out and about. A woman who was tending a vegetable garden told us that Obadiah wasn’t home, but we were welcome to wander about. We did and saw some wonderful pieces behind trees, in open land ,around the chicken coop.

    The poem is an imaginary conversation with Obadiah

  37. Linda Frances on July 2, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2010/07/obadiah.html

    Maybe this will work–if not I’ll post it when I get home.

  38. Nathan Landau on July 2, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Started as a conversation, ended as a question. A carryover from last week, as well.

    “Steganography: the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message.”

    http://poemsaboutnothinginparticular.blogspot.com/2010/07/steganography.html

    • Sharp Little Pencil on July 3, 2010 at 8:22 pm

      Nathan, thanks for defining this word. John’s book of Revelation was a good example of steganography. It was purposely written in cryptic prose so the Roman guards would let it pass through to the intended recipients. Rather than a literal vision, it was supposed to be “decoded” in a sense. Food for thought.

  39. Erin Davis on July 2, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    Here’s mine. I didn’t really follow the prompt, but it got me thinking…

    http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2010/07/enough.html

  40. Nate Hile on July 2, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Got IT?

  41. Megan on July 2, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    Here is my feeble attempt. I might write another one when I am more lucid. I liked this prompt.

    Admin note — Here’s the link: http://youareuseless.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/kitchen/

    • Deb on July 3, 2010 at 8:47 am

      Welcome to the Big Tent, Megan! Glad you liked the prompt!

      • Megan on July 3, 2010 at 4:49 pm

        Thanks Deb! I have posted another one.

  42. Victoria on July 3, 2010 at 12:14 am

    Hard this week…just a snippet… http://victoria-andnowpoems.blogspot.com/2010/07/difficult-conversation.html#comments

    (Admin note — remember to separate punctuation from the link — I added a space after … — or it won’t hotlink. )

  43. Come On, Everybody… « The Laughing Housewife on July 3, 2010 at 4:08 am

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  44. Tilly Bud on July 3, 2010 at 4:09 am

    Wow! I’m only a day late but look at how many poems there are! Good prompt. Mine has a tenuous link to the prompt but you all get to join in.

    http://thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/come-on-everybody/

  45. winedarksea on July 3, 2010 at 6:59 am

    talk talk… 26

    • Deb on July 3, 2010 at 8:47 am

      Welcome back, WDS.

  46. Deb on July 3, 2010 at 11:24 am

    Mine is about The Hostile Witness.

    (In this case, moi!)

  47. Sharp Little Pencil on July 3, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    One conversation I have always yearned for… Amy

    http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/a-seeker-speaks-to-the-magdalene-big-tent-prompt/

  48. Cara Holman on July 3, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    My conversation poem, “Unanswered Questions”:

    http://caraholman.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/unanswered-questions/

    • Deb on July 3, 2010 at 11:36 pm

      Hi Cara. Welcome to the Big Tent.

  49. Uma Gowrishankar on July 4, 2010 at 9:22 am

    Have I come in very late? Here is my link – http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2010/07/04/aphasia/

    • Elizabeth on July 4, 2010 at 3:11 pm

      I think your spameater, swallowed my comment. So, I’ll say it. One of the best I’ve read recently. It’s incredible.

      Elizabeth

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