MONDAY PROMPT / September 13
This week’s prompt
Oh, how we love The Wordles! Use as many of these words as you can in a poem. They may look like a mess now, but we have faith that you will sort it all out. Isn’t it interesting how poetry can do that?
Come back on Friday to post your poems!
(And don’t worry your pretty little heads trying to figure out which famous poem is the source of these words. This time, the words are those that jumped out at us as we flipped through several books.)
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
Hint: We’ve set Big Tent Poetry to Central Time.
Hint: An easy way to check on new post comments is with RSS reader, if you use one. Here’s the address: http://bigtentpoetry.org/comments/feed.
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.
OK, I’m on the case. Meanwhile, can I remind UK poets that October 7 is National Poetry Day, with a theme of HOME. The website is: http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/
Part 6 of Sleeping under the Stairs is up, mainly about wartime clothes: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/sleeping-under…-stairs-part-6/
Considering our recent accident, these words are very appropriate and have inspired a stark piece…..
Thanks for this wonderful site.
oh, mark! so sorry to hear about the accident. i’m glad you’re going to be ok!
I have something that I will post tomorrow.
Thanks Mark for pointing me here.
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Elizabeth
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Hi ,
For the Monday’s prompt ” Worldle’s” ,My submission is here.
http://umaspoembook.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-made-my-own-recycled-plaything.html
I tried to put all the words in my poem.Hope you all like it
Big Tent’s Monday, September 13th prompt painted this picture in my head…
http://mardeen.livejournal.com/
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