MONDAY PROMPT/ August 16
This week’s prompt
This week’s prompt is a Wordle. The words are taken from one of a well-regarded poet’s published poems, which will be named (and linked to!) in Friday’s Come One, Come All post.
Hope you enjoy this week’s challenge to use any number of the words in your Big Tent Poetry poem this week!
(We could always use more contributions for future Wordles. Send your words to info (at) bigtentpoetry (dot) org and be sure to include your name and blog address.)
How prompts work under the Big Tent
We post prompts on Mondays, and you have all week to write your poems, based on our fabulous prompt or any other inspiration. Come back on Friday when you will find a “Come One, Come All” post where you can use the comments section to 1) leave a link to your poem or 2) leave the poem in its entirety.
You’ll have all day Friday (and all weekend!) to post your work and read each others’ work. Take your time. Enjoy all the poems that are new to the world.
Some hints
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Hint: Since we’re a new site, and you’re new to it, your comment(s) will be held for moderation for your first few posts. We’re checking the filters often, so don’t despair! That said, if it takes more than a half a day to see it come live on the site, do email us at info (at) bigtentpoetry.org. (But be patient, okay?)
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.
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.
Okay, I’m completely confused. What exactly is a wordle?
Elizabeth
hi, elizabeth. a wordle is a fancy list of words. instead of appearing as a list, it appears as a graphic image, all jumbled up. the challenge is to write a poem using as many of the words in the poem as you can. we’ve got quite a crew here that manages to use them all with great results! and we also get some great poems when just a single poem from the wordle inspires someone. :)
Thanks, Carolee!!
Elizabeth, Sometimes the words in our Wordles were generously “offered” from our poets & sometimes we make Wordles by choosing words from published (and available online) poems. The last one in June was like that (based on a Sherman Alexie poem), as is this one. Both are fun. And everyone finds so many different ways to use the same words it amazes.
You can make your own Wordles, too, for whatever reason you want to. http://www.wordle.net/ is lots of fun.
A Wordle is a complete jumble of words either randomly generated, or picked by the Wordle software from an existing piece of writing. The fun is in trying to make sense out of nonsense. To see the wordle properly, click on the tiny picture at the top of the page.
Wordle is fun to try your own short poetry on – google the word wordle, and start to play.
ViV
(In our case we pick specific words to put in the Wordle generator. Hence the desire for word donations.)
[...] IDYLL for Bigtent 16 and We Write Poems 15 August 16, 2010 by vivinfrance Big Tent has given us a wordle this week with the usual bunch of unrelated words to use in a poem, http://bigtentpoetry.org/2010/08/monday-prompt-august-16/ [...]
That wasn’t meant to come up until Friday! Sorreee. And now I’ve locked myself out of my own blog and can’t work out how to log back in!
I love writing to Wordle.
I was going back through my blog and found the very first poem I wrote to a prompt was on Sept. 21st, 2006. It was for Poetry Thursday which some of you may recall as being the forerunner to Read~Write~Poem. This community has been together for more than four years of shared poetry.
brian, deb and jill and i were poetry thursday-ers, too, at that same time. :)
it’s wonderful to have a shared history and imagine how many poems have come out of these communities!!!
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