COME ONE, COME ALL / December 3
by Carolee, Deb & Jill
It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — write an “enough” 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.
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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.
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Finally wrote another poem, after a few weeks off–I liked this prompt!
Get Up
glad the prompt was part of getting back in it!
Mine is Better Living With Chemicals. (And it is a weird one. Just sayin’.)
It could probably do with a trimming, but for now it’s
enough
I tried a blitz poem: “Poem to Write” (which did double duty as my PAD Day 29 poem.)
http://caraholman.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/2010-november-pad-day-29/
Btw, how does everyone manage to hyperlink their poem titles???
I just open a blank post, write what I’m going to say and form the link using the preset link thingy.
There is code for it, though. Not sure if it will work to put it here, but we’ll see.
Just copy this and paste your URL in place of the words, and the same for your title.
TITLE HERE
well, that didn’t work
one more attempt
this would be inside the less than and greater than caret symbols instead of parentheses
(a href=”URL HERE” target=”_blank”>TITLE HERE</a)
In worpress, all I do is right-click on the title in my blog and then scroll down to “copy link”, click, and then paste it into here with Control V.
Cool. Thanks Barbara, Viv and Nan. I’ll give it a try next week!
http://victoria-andnowpoems.blogspot.com/2010/12/enough-big-tent-prompt.html#comments
Childhood, when the moment was enough. Great little prompt. Click on my name above to have a look.
Thanks for the prompt.
I tried writing a Shadorma, and I do mean tried.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/12/did-i-invite-you-big-tent-poetry-31.html
Thanks for the prompt, it was educational,
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/q-and-a/
Elizabeth
Some haiku, this time: Four Haiku: Autumn Colors
After a bit of free writing, I remembered this story someone once told me about his father’s coat
Was treated to a few days in Niagara Falls by a dear friend earlier this week and shot some footage. ‘Tones of Noir,’ an effort of some 30 hours (with 6 hours of sleep somewhere in there) definitely is ENOUGH! Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for the great prompt, too!
Here’s my second attempt of the week, and that’s enough for anyone! http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/enough/
A few words for the world that’s seen enough suffering
Orbits
[...] epigram is going at the end of the collection but I thought it was perfect for today’s Big Tent prompt, [...]
I couldn’t come up with anything new so I’m sharing an epigram I wrote a while back.
http://sapoems.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/enough%e2%80%99s-enough/
I loved writing this:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/12/astral-music.html
Some days it’s enough (but today was more)
some days
This was a great prompt! Here is my “enough” poem: just enough to interrupt the heirarchy.
wasn’t it great!
I liked the prompt! Here is my poem……
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2010/12/enough.html
I didn’t write to the prompt, but here’s what I’ve got — my 52nd mother poem:
One Year (Mother Psalm 9)
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/11/another-mother-poem-one-year-mother-psalm-9.html
Really LOVED the prompt! I had so many ideas, but then I had one of those days…
You can find “Gimmee, Gimmee” here: http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
My poem is called “Haiti”
http://Marianv.blog.co.uk
[...] here see what the other circus-goers are writing this week! from → new poems ← [...]
can’t wait to read! gotta git to a coffee date with our pal jilly first!
in the meantime, here’s mine:
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/enough-a-poem-for-big-tent-poetry/
poem-a-day is over and i’m back with you!
Stay with the poem until you reach the final word—
http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-hot-flash.html
I’m submitting this poem I wrote earlier in the week and posted to One Stop Poetry for their One Shot Wednesday, if that’s okay. I revised it to include the prompt word, but I think it fits into the groove of ‘writing about society’ and what is enough fairly well without it. If you are a died-in-the-wool fan of Ayn Rand, you might want to skip it, though:
Atlas Mugged
There’s also a post a few entries above it inviting discussion on what influences your writing style, what poems have inspired you and why you write. Please feel free to contribute, or just list your three favorite poems.
of course it’s ok! BTP prompts are optional. we are happy when the poems come no matter where they come from!
Please stop by my blog, Conversations with Laurie, and check out my poem, Enough is Enough.
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/
This is to the tune of the theme song of Mr. Ed.
Connie Peters
http://enthusiasticsoul.blogspot.com/2010/12/big-tent-prompt-enough.html
Congratulations on creating your blog!
Thanks for the prompt and the site!
http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com/2010/12/enough-for-big-tent-poetry.html
Oh, everyone’s been busy poeming! Can’t wait to read. Here’s mine:
http://robin-turner.blogspot.com/2010/12/for-matthew.html
A prompt, just when I need one!
http://www.sbpoet.com/2010/12/enough.html
It’s so nice to see you here, SB!
yes yes!!
Thankyou! Thankyou!
… so nice to be writing again.
A message for a stalker
” Montezuma’s Revenge “
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com/2010/12/montezumas-revenge.html
Drinking Games
here is mine at
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2010/12/enough.html
Mine was first published for Sunday 160 and since it went with the theme, here it is again:
http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/sunday-160-el-shaddai/
Here is my Enough: http://strummedwords.blogspot.com/2010/12/enough-already.html
another great prompt… can’t get enuf of btp… texas tremble
posted another “enough” poem!
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/another-enough-poem-for-big-tent-poetry/
putting the kiddos in bed and then coming to read!
I am not enough when it comes to figuring out how to put Big Tent Poetry thingy on my blog. Sigh. Love the site though and had fun with the prompt.
hi, judy! can i help you? are you trying to get the badge?
Carolee, I couldn’t make the code work on my blog, either — and I’m so out of practice that I can’t remember code well enough to fix. So — I just swiped it. Copied it, downloaded it, uploaded it.