COME ONE, COME ALL / November 19
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 “cascade 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.)
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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This was fun.
Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle
‘Cloud 9 ‘
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
Cascade poetry was fun !!
Here’s mine : http://ladynimue.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/music/
Will be back later to read other entries :)
“Under the Harvest Moon”, my tribute to Chinook salmon:
http://caraholman.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/under-the-harvest-moon/
An attempt! Beestings
http://claudetteellinger.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/dreaming-life/
Elizabeth
Thanks for the prompt Barb.
My attempt:
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-queen-29-big-tent-poetry-cascade.html
I really enjoyed writing this…..in fact I wrote two.
I offer only one here:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/11/claustrophobia.html
This one’s in my miserable old bat’s blog, for obvious reasons!
http://vivnada.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/a-grumble-rather-than-a-rant/
I tried my hand at the cascade poem format. It was a fun exercise. I came up with two. You will find them HERE.
This form is fascinating! Here’s what I came up with:
Grandparents’ house
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/11/another-mother-poem-grandparents-house.html
Not what I expected, I had a brief snit over a news report and this fell out onto the page.
A monkey, a flagpole, and Russia
I hope every one has bountiful, joyful, and love filled Thanksgiving.
Been doing the PAD challenge at Poetic Asides so here’s a cascade poem from a month ago:
Post-Workout
Will try to come back later to read everyone else’s posts.
Not only do I run with scissors, I have trouble formats!! Anyway, here is my somewhat twisted attempt at Barbara’s great prompt…
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
Shoot! I see what I did wrong. Here we go again. You can delete that first try.
A Few Quiet Moments
This poem came from a real-life experience.
http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2010/11/to-write-novel.html
This was challenging and fun!
http://www.blogginwithamanda.com/2010/11/18/big-tent-poetry-cascade/
I enjoyed this…
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2010/11/weather-report-a-big-tent-poetry-poem.html
Whoops, I posted it in the wrong place.
http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/big-tent-poetry-introspection/
I was not happy about this form at first. Now I’m fascinated and want to work with it some more. Here’s mine:
http://robin-turner.blogspot.com/2010/11/never-and-again.html
So much harder than it first appeared.
http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com/2010/11/big-tent-poetry-prompt-write-cascade.html
Hope this is the right way for the “Cascade”.
http://Marianv.blog.co.uk
TOTALLY last minute one! Interesting form.
Flying Home After the Wedding
The Big Apple Circus
Somethingsithinkabout-annell-annell.blogspot.com
this was another challenging adventure, love form poetry… never tried a cascade before, thank you btp and briarcat! imagine
this isn’t a cascade poem, but it’s got some repetition. i’m still poem-a-day-ing it! my poem for today is fun in a twisted sort of way. (maybe that’s normal for me.)
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/november-poem-a-day-day-19/
http://lightbetweenshadow.blogspot.com/2010/11/histrionic-withdrawal-syndrome.html
Saranya
Instead of your prompt, I used one of the poem a day challenge prompts, which seemed to call out for an earthquake poem.
Just when you thought it was safe
Not an easy prompt for me so I guess this was a good exercise.
Night Walk
Really enjoyed this prompt. I wrote two, one is posted here:
http://versiscape-lifesentences.blogspot.com/2010/11/threnody-on-number-xi.html
And here’s the other one just for fun:
The Ghoul and the Weavers
The house was empty all the while.
As they sat and worked the loom
To weave the cloth to sell next spring.
Though something made a bang and boom
That made them jump and the glasses ring,
The house was empty all the while.
Each night one fewer in the room,
Each morn one less to pull the weft,
As they sat and worked the loom.
The loom is stopped, the air is numb
with sisters’ screams though none are left
To weave the cloth for springs to come.
I like this form – great suggestion, Barbara! Here’s mine (better late than never!)
http://www.starsandwillows.com/2010/11/family-tree/
(All three comments were in the spam filter. :-( But here is your first comment. :-) )
Thanks, Deb!
back from Cuba….to the snow of the Canadian Rockies…here is mine
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2010/11/horse.html
Here’s mine
Reduce, Recycle, Déjà Vu
This was challenging, but fun! Thank you, Barbara!
The Commuter Brings Her Lunchtime Farmer’s Market Errand Home
thank you so much for suggesting we try this form, barbara!
last night when i was trying to write my poem for the day, it became a great tool!
here’s my cascade poem. i’m on prompt! yay! (which means i’m off prompt at poem-a-day, but that’s OK!)
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/november-poem-a-day-day-20/
The Null
After a brief hiatus -
Deciduous, a Top-Floor Flat