COME ONE, COME ALL / October 15
by Carolee, Deb & Jill
It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — our latest Wordle — 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.)
What did you write? Please 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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A tale about Robo-tripping
Here is what I wrote:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/10/extraction.html
I finally managed to use all the words!
Dad, Dissertation
Aubergine Kiss
all these years, I can’t get over that damned doll
in the light of my sixty-third birthday next week
Thanks for the wordle. I wouldn’t have written this otherwise, and I like it.
http://wysfool.blogspot.com/2010/10/poem-from-wordle-flock.html
Just a short 12 wordle
“Muddy Extract Plucked from a B Grade Movie”
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
This is my second poem to a video clip. I attempting to do a series of matching BTP
prompts to video clips.
You are selling me on wordles. They ued to feel forced, now a good stretch. Here’s mine: http://victoria-andnowpoems.blogspot.com/2010/10/big-tent-wordle-poem-for-8-15-2010.html
Don’t think Blogger took my comment, but…
“This poem is proof you can keep your femininity without sacrificing your ideals. Great work, sister. Amy”
Thanks for the prompt!
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/10/it-was-never-about-you-24-big-tent.html
Don’t think my comment “took” but here it is:
I read this right after Mary’s. You two must be channeling. “You never had the hook,” indeed. Another saucy babe at her best!!
Amy BL
Mine is here
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/a-wordle-mystery/
Here it is:
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2010/10/bold-advances.html
I had fun with this:
http://troublebeingstrong.blogspot.com/2010/10/kittenish-kiss.html
This is my first time here -
http://lavitaboca.blogspot.com/2010/10/wordle.html
welcome to big tent poetry, diane!! so glad you’re here!
Thank you Carolee, this looks like a fun place. I’m happy to be here.
Almost missed out wordle (because of poetry gong).
I write in purple ink
Short and not so sweet!
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/10/corruption.html
I wrote from the wordle, and also counted it as my second poem in the poem-a-day gong challenge.
I went all Through The Looking Glass on this one
Drink The Essence
My wordle is “Not Again” is posted on my blog-
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/
Nice to see you here, Laurie! Amy
good morning, everyone! i am not going to read these until i have managed my own attempt, but i’ll be back!
I managed to use all but one of the words in the wordle!
Mother psalm 8
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/10/another-mother-poem-mother-psalm-8.html
Not sure if my comment “took” on your site, but mom to mom, this was delicious!
fun wordle this week had a blast with it1
http://www.blogginwithamanda.com/2010/10/15/big-tentbewitching-wordle/
This can be found on http://Marianv.blog.co.uk
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Oh this was fun !! I thought i would not be able to use many words but i did !! And i wrote something that is a surprise to even me ;) thank you !!
http://ladynimue.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/remembering-an-angel/
Hi,
I think this is how I should have posted my poem…third time lucky…getting there…:)
http://jenray.blog.co.uk/2010/10/12/the-rag-doll-9600460/
Like I said at your blog, glad you decided to post! Amy BL
Not one of my better ones, imo, but at least it’s here. I missed last week due to nerves over that which I wrote about. ;)
http://ambertemple.blogspot.com/2010/10/big-tent-poetry-day.html
I feel for you… really…!
Well, that was fun! I do rather like wordles, although sometimes it’s a struggle to get all the words in without it being too obvious that that’s what I’m trying to do. :)
http://turtlememoir.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/princess-waits/
Grrrr…. the Mama Poetry is coming fast and furious this week….
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2010/10/how-many-can-say-that.html
Since I’m technolocically challenged and don’t have my blogsite figured out yet, I’ll just post the whole poem.
Living Colors
I love purple, blue, and green together. As my
brush kisses the canvas; the sky, the violets, the
drooping leaves form into a soothing balm.
In autumn I like to paint the misshapen gourd
that hooks the viewer with its mysterious lines,
colors, patterns, varied texture and glossy finish.
I hang my paintings along the staircase.
Each trip up and down is like a visit
to a mini art museum, no muddy colors–
crisp pink on the doll’s dress, sparkly yellow
of dandelions, a glint of silver on a bitter tear,
I extract the mood from a moment in time
like a poet paints life’s poignancy with words,
a dancer evokes beauty and joy with movement,
or a musician plucks sorrow from a fiddle.
Lovely Connie! I would like to see your paintings!
really amazing !! :)
lovely and colorful!
This is a lovely rainbow of a poem. And how cleverly you used the wordle words, so that I had to search to identify them – I’ve given up for a bit as the words in my attempt leap out and bite with incongruity!
Connie, you may be blog-challenged, but word-challenged you are not. Do you actually paint as well as write poetry? Your poem was a hymn to oils, acrylics… the textural kind of painting I love so much. GREAT take on the Wordle!
See you at PA and here again soon, I hope! Amy BL
This was fun. Excited about reading everyone’s responses!
Mine is here:
http://robin-turner.blogspot.com/2010/10/pluck.html
Thanks, that was a challenge…
Doll
Oil and Vinegar: http://poems.elizabethenslin.com/2010/10/oil-and-vinegar/
My poem drafts are password protected. If you don’t already have a password, leave a comment on the website or shoot me an email (address on website), and I’ll get it to you.
Imagination
The little girl
had gone outside to play,
when she realized she forgot her doll.
So she ran back inside
and up the staircase
leaving a trail of muddy footprints.
She grabbed her doll, Ellie,
and made haste to get back outside,
never seeing the muddy trail she
left behind.
She headed back out across the meadow,
where in the curtain of Willow tree
she had left an old blanket.
She loved to lay on the blanket and
watch the family of bluebirds that
lived in the gourd Grandpa had made
into a bird house.
Grandpa had hung the gourd from a hook,
on one of the sturdy inner branches of the willow tree.
Underneath the drooping sway of the willow branches
the little girl would pretend to be an Indian Princess
of a far off land. Her Princess would have lots of pluck
or maybe it was luck, she couldn’t quite remember
what pluck meant.
The Princess had long, glossy black hair
and had the power to extract handshakes
from and of her loyal subjects. (The little girl
would have extracted kisses but she thought
they were pretty gross.)
The little girl played out under the Willow tree
until the fading rays of the sun
kissed the sky with streaks of purple.
When the little girl headed inside
she was exhausted from playing in the fresh air.
But her day ended on a bitter note,
as her Mother met her with the vacuum cleaner
and pointed to the dried mud on the staircase.
The little girl gave her Mother an apologetic, half smile,
and as she grabbed the vacuum cleaner
her imagination fired up and she was now
a poor, dirty maid wishing for her prince to come save her.
Michelle, Amy from PA here. Man, you need to set up a blog! I loved this, a turnabout on Cinderella… the princess becomes the little girl forced to clean up her mess.
Great take on the Wordle, Michelle! Amy
Challenging one, and great for fall! here’s mine:
http://satellitetime.blogspot.com/2010/10/falling.html
I only used two of the words but had fun exploring a new poetry form. http://bigtentpoetry.org/tag/come-one-come-all/
Thanks as always for the wonderful prompts!
Oops, that link should be http://ibrewhaiku.blogspot.com/2010/10/lips-glossy.html
:-)
The Soloist
Between the gongs and the weekly prompt, this really is beginning to feel like a 3-ring circus!
“Fall Back” : http://caraholman.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/fall-back/
that’s the way — uh-huh uh-huh — we li-ike it — uh-huh uh-huh. that’s the way. :)
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Hello everybody !
sharing this week’s 12 wordle prompt
enjoying writing at big tent poetry.
Happy sharing !
Hi all, here’s mine:
http://www.starsandwillows.com/2010/10/at-dusk-on-the-cusp-of-winter/
Writer’s block still lingers, so having trouble with the wordle – but I will not give up. Until then, here is a surreal off-topic piece… Emerald Eyes
here’s mine:
Leo’s Big Tent entry!
My “Slice of Life” Wordle was done on time and is posted on my website – I just forgot to link it here – fyi, if things don’t show up on my site, scroll down and hit HOME – then everything comes up again – I’ve obviously got something set incorrectly but being the Luddite I am can’t see what it is … http://thepoet-tree-house.blogspot.com/
Sharon, Blogger is being hinky about taking comments. Your link led me to the last prompt, on songs. Here is my comment on that:
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“Afraid to swallow your tense” WOW, that is an amazing line, Sharon. I didn’t do this prompt, and now I’m regretting it… Also, the title, “scars me still,” evocative and so sad.
So glad I can link your blog to mine now.
Peace, Amy
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You go, Sharon! Glad to see you here at the Tent! Amy Barlow Liberatore
must be contagious: I forgot to link mine, too!
I’m playing around with different forms these days, that is when I’m playing. http://another2doors.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/daisy/
1 word missing and one word “adapted” http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/bigtent-wordle-16-10-10/
[...] I’ve stopped and started umpteen poems, and haven’t managed to use all the words, which were: purple, kiss, dropping, staircase, hook, gourd, doll, bitter, muddy, glossy, pluck and extract. You can read the others at http://bigtentpoetry.org/2010/10/come-one-come-all-october-15/comment-page-1/#comment-5644 [...]
My first Wordle! This was a blast. I’ve tried them before but the words didn’t catch my fancy. This is a fun poem, not my usual rants for social justice… ha ha ha Amy
http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/teddy-bear-big-tent-poetry/
sorry i didn’t get to this sooner! here’s my attempt at the wordle!
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/octobers-big-tent-poetry-wordle/
Hi Circus Friends! I can’t wait to get reading. I’ve missed three weeks – and have purposely not read until I could write. Here are my belated efforts for the past three prompts. This Friday’s can be found at damned pumpkin pie smell. The previous two can be found here.
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