COME ONE, COME ALL / March 25

March 25, 2011
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Ack! Sorry this post is late posting!

by Carolee, Deb & Jill

It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — smashing your words around — 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.

Some hints

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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.

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67 Responses to “ COME ONE, COME ALL / March 25 ”

  1. Rachel Barenblat on March 25, 2011 at 8:24 am

    I wound up using the wordle generator to get my prompt, and I really like what I came up with:

    Understand
    http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2011/03/understand-a-poem-for-big-tent-poetry.html

    • Kelly E. on March 26, 2011 at 1:19 pm

      I tried to post on your blog but can’t tell if it’s awaiting moderation or just disappeared… anyway, I loved your poem. So beautiful.

  2. Deb on March 25, 2011 at 8:25 am

    Sorry the post was late, folks! My fault.

    • rob kistner on March 25, 2011 at 8:28 am

      Big night in the Big Tent…? :)

      • Deb on March 25, 2011 at 8:38 am

        Yup. The elephants got into the peanut stash again. What a mess. Oy!

    • Brenda on March 25, 2011 at 8:35 am

      I wondered if the toys took over.

      • Brenda on March 25, 2011 at 8:38 am

        Babelfishing, generating other responses, new configurations of the Big Tent, a general hubbub! :)

        • Deb on March 25, 2011 at 8:38 am

          A bubhub it was!

          • Barbara on March 25, 2011 at 12:21 pm

            I like that word. May have to use it.

  3. vivienne blake on March 25, 2011 at 8:25 am

    No problem – though I worried that all might not be well Stateside.

    http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/poetry-toys-for-bigtent/

    • Deb on March 25, 2011 at 8:40 am

      Ah, Viv! You dear. I simply forgot to write this post because I got carried away with the set-up for next month. (Oh, the fun that will be!) Silly epoet. :-)

      (And my day job has been a tad demanding as of late. Silly “real” life.)

      • irene on March 25, 2011 at 10:01 pm

        Busy bee Deb!

  4. rob kistner on March 25, 2011 at 8:27 am

    Smokin’… La-Nature-du-Feu

  5. Jade on March 25, 2011 at 8:27 am

    I used a previous blog post to come up with my short poem :)

    Hummingbird

  6. Brenda W. on March 25, 2011 at 8:28 am

    This was fun, and helped me get something going. Thanks!
    http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/2011/03/three-haiku-and-she-floats.html

  7. Brenda on March 25, 2011 at 8:32 am

    The prompt fertilized ideas for how to write a poem this week that I’d been hankering to do – on the perigee moon – and while I didn’t try any of the ‘toys,’ I definitely used a technique to generate imagery for a poem. It’s a long explanatory post; if you prefer, skip to the box to read the poem: Wear White Paint for the Moon. Thanks! And I can’t wait to read the other poems.

  8. thingy on March 25, 2011 at 8:38 am

    Thank-you for the wonderful experience.

    http://thingy-thingy-ponderinglife.blogspot.com/2011/03/life-in-my-unclean.html

  10. irene on March 25, 2011 at 8:41 am

    I had some fun with Erasure.

    The smallness of being great

  11. Lee Pursewarden on March 25, 2011 at 8:43 am

    It’s a bit silly, but I used the Wordle site to get this:
    http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3344723/The_Mermaid

    See the real poem at:
    http://leepursewarden.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/wordle-post/

  12. Mattison on March 25, 2011 at 8:51 am

    I’m a first-timer to Big Tent’s challenges. I pasted a relatively simple autobiographical statement into the Cut-Up Machine at Language is a virus and it spat out some interesting phrases. With a little tinkering, “Autobiography of Deconstructed Me” emerged. It was a fun exercise. Thanks!

    • Deb on March 25, 2011 at 9:49 am

      Welcome to the Tent, Mattison.

  13. Joseph Harker on March 25, 2011 at 9:00 am

    Clearly everyone was poised and ready to post, though. :)

    A dash of fresh meaning?

  14. versebender on March 25, 2011 at 9:16 am

    Started with Poe’s “The Raven,” then went to Erasure…kept chopping and came up with this…”Raven Redux”

    http://versebender.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/raven-redux

  15. Donna Vorreyer on March 25, 2011 at 9:16 am

    http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/experiments-in-extraction/

    An erasure – lots of fun.

  16. nan on March 25, 2011 at 9:35 am

    Erasures! Cool toy! I went sailing into the gale.

  17. Linda Watskin on March 25, 2011 at 9:36 am

    I started with a quotation—wrote a poem and then used the “cut-up” link. The poem explores the quotation.
    http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2011/03/daughter.html

  18. Kim Nelson on March 25, 2011 at 9:44 am

    You never need apologize. You do us a great service. I had to fall back to my I AM bit… this prompt was tough!
    http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2011/03/24/perpetual-connection/

  19. Mr. Walker on March 25, 2011 at 9:51 am

    My poem is at: http://sadlywaiting.blogspot.com/2011/03/car-in-shop.html
    I, too, used the Cut Up Machine on one of my previous blog entries.

  21. Tilly Bud on March 25, 2011 at 10:21 am

    I didn’t find inspiration amongst the toys but I have used Word of the Day before:

    http://imnotaverse.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/conniption/

  22. Patricia Caspers on March 25, 2011 at 10:52 am

    Hi all,

    This is my first time here, too. I used the cut up machine on an old, vexing poem. Thanks!
    http://patriciacaspers.blogspot.com/

    • Deb on March 26, 2011 at 1:33 pm

      Welcome to the Tent!

  23. Iwrite4u on March 25, 2011 at 10:55 am

    Its an inspiration of Japanese arts and crafts…

    http://umaspoembook.blogspot.com/2011/03/inside-my-poem-book-japanese-bonsai.html

  24. Tumblewords on March 25, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Interesting toys, to be sure! Thank you!

    http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com/2011/03/poem-for-big-tent-poetry.html

  25. Barbara on March 25, 2011 at 11:39 am

    I like playing with these things.  I wound up using the Sentence Builder at Language is a Virus and got

    A Couple Variations

  26. Rachel on March 25, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    Not to prompt, but it’s the first thing I’ve written in three months, so here’s an etheree:

    Birth

    • Deb on March 25, 2011 at 12:56 pm

      It’s nice to have you back. Whatever prompts a poem is fine by us.

  27. Laurie Kolp on March 25, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    What a fun prompt! I used (and felt like) the cut up machine… then added a little.

    http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/

  28. Madeleine Begun Kane on March 25, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    I’ve never done well with toys (even as a child) and this was no exception. But at least I did consult my trusty odd holiday calendar in writing this pair of poems: Ode To Breakfast and Caffeinated Haiku. Thanks!

    • Deb on March 25, 2011 at 12:57 pm

      Not doing well with toys would be a great poem idea to work from, too. :-)

  29. Nicole on March 25, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    http://honeyhaiku.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/559/

    This was sooo fun!

  30. Kenia Cris on March 25, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    My piece, hope you enjoy it. =*

    http://poesiatorta.blogspot.com/2011/03/450.html

  31. RJ Clarken on March 25, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    BabelFish and Little Willie – now that’s one weird combo!

    http://1ightverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/theres-no-uniformity-to-this-post.html

    (Thanks!)

  32. Julie Jordan Scott on March 25, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    I used babelfish, primarily to add an Italian vibe to my somewhat cynical poem.

    http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2011/03/ulcswarmup3.html

  33. EKSwitaj on March 25, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    I’m back! I used Google Translate instead of Babelfish to twist a poem from my book into this:

    Red Hiding Hood

    • Deb on March 25, 2011 at 3:08 pm

      Yay! Glad to see you & your link!

  34. Cathy on March 25, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    I did erasure of my poem, “Spring must come in as a wild woman”. Which got interesting because I landed up revising that poem too. Then new poem almost fell apart too. Got both of then done today.

    However fair warning!!

    There’s not so nice violence in the poems, that some people might not want to read. You wouldn’t offend me if you skip me this week.

    http://www.thequietone.net/the_quiet_one/2011/03/making-new-from-old.html

  35. Jeanne Aguilar on March 25, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    I was hoping you were all okay! Glad to know you surfaced! I used the visu words…

    http://sidelinesbyjeanne.blogspot.com/

  37. Rhiannon on March 26, 2011 at 2:33 am

    I enjoyed playing with Robopoem.

    http://rhiannonproblematising.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/robopoem/

  38. renkat on March 26, 2011 at 6:27 am

    Gave Erasure a go…http://tribeofmadorphans.blogspot.com/2011/03/erasure.html

  39. Kelly E. on March 26, 2011 at 10:01 am

    I used the Madlib Poem tool at Language is a Virus (great site!) and the Erasure tool, then combined some of the phrases I liked into this:
    http://www.starsandwillows.com/2011/03/for-lack-of-pershing/

  40. gautami tripathy on March 26, 2011 at 11:08 am

    Here is mine: (not to the prompt, though)

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2011/03/homing.html

  41. Yousei Hime on March 26, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    I believe this a first time posting for me. I enjoyed the prompt and look forward to more.

    http://tasmith1122.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/spring/

    • Deb on March 26, 2011 at 10:10 pm

      It’s nice to have you here, Yousei. Welcome.

      • Yousei Hime on March 27, 2011 at 9:28 pm

        I really did enjoy this prompt. I tried a few of my prior poems and didn’t like the results. Finally I tried one and blended Babelfish with Cut-up and loved what I saw. I think the strength of this exercise is in seeing how subtle shifts in word order or use of synonyms can alter the meaning slightly to dramatically. I will definitely come back to these toys when my muse is quiet or fussy.

  42. Uma Gowrishankar on March 27, 2011 at 5:30 am

    Interesting toys, but I played safe by using the word cloud. Here is the link to my poem: http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2011/03/27/cosmic-slumber/

  43. Deb on March 27, 2011 at 9:51 am

    You know? I love how many of you said this was fun!

    Mine is here: Awake (Used the cut up machine.) I wanted to try erasures, too. And will sometime. Maybe in April!

    I may not get to read you all again this week. So sorry. My loss!

  44. Templeton's fury on March 27, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    What fun

  45. Saadi on March 27, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    It’s late and not to a prompt, but here it is:

    http://saadiwriting.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/straw-into-gold/

  46. Dennis Go on April 2, 2011 at 6:10 am

    Hello. I’m new here.

    3. Write about making a phone call.
    http://dennisgopoems.blogspot.com/2011/04/sighs-of-conversation.html

    • Deb on April 2, 2011 at 8:59 am

      Welcome, Dennis!