COME ONE, COME ALL / April 1

April 1, 2011
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by Carolee, Deb & Jill

It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to one of Monday’s prompts — which one did you do? — 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

Hint: We’ve set Big Tent Poetry to Central Time.

Hint: An easy way to check on new post comments is via a RSS reader, if you use one. Here’s the address you would add to your reader: http://bigtentpoetry.org/comments/feed.

Hint: If you are new to our site, or put more than one link in your comment, 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.

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80 Responses to “ COME ONE, COME ALL / April 1 ”

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  1. Deb on April 3, 2011 at 1:14 am

    I’ve another for me, about feathers & not feeling like myself: http://stoneymoss.org/2011/04/02/2-april/

    No arty sketches today. Just words.

  2. irene on April 3, 2011 at 6:56 am

    Day 3′s about that phone call.

    overheard on phone

  3. Mike Patrick on April 3, 2011 at 10:03 am

    It’s day three and I’m on that telephone.
    http://thepoetsquill.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/i-know-you-well/

  4. Joseph Harker on April 3, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    I promise this is the last one I’ll post on this thread; looking forward to next week’s prompts! This is for afraid of an animal. Mind the cobras:

    Pelham Parkway on a Tuesday Night

  5. Wayne on April 3, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    day 3 is the phone call….PHONE CALL TO PAST
    hhtp://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2011/04/phone-call-to-past.html

  8. Pam on April 3, 2011 at 8:06 pm

    Here is a response to prompt #7:

    Seasonal-Affected Illness

  9. irene on April 3, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    Day 4, I’m so keeping it up.

    existence

  10. Jason Riedy on April 3, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    I had an interesting mix of different prompts in mind but failed to reach them. Instead, I played with the phone call prompt and decided I need to spend more time reading others’ work.

    • Deb on April 3, 2011 at 10:19 pm

      Nice to have you here, Jason!

    • vivienne blake on April 7, 2011 at 12:42 am

      I couldn’t make head or tail of how to comment, but wanted to say how much I enjoyed your post.

  11. Writer's Island on April 4, 2011 at 7:27 am

    Just a note to let you know that, while we are not posting daily NAPOWRIMO 2011 prompts at Writer’s Island, we are opening a “Free Write” prompt each day of April, and invite you to post any poem you wish that you’ve written that day, including those you’re writing to the wonderful prompts here at Big Tent Poetry…

  12. Kristen McHenry on April 4, 2011 at 7:29 am

    Day Three–This somewhat falls under the category of “Something that Happened 15 Years Ago”, although I don’t actually know when the simplicity movement began:

    http://thegoodtypist.blogspot.com/2011/04/poem-day-challenge-day-three-simplicty.html

  13. Lee Pursewarden on April 4, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    I’m sorry this is so late, I was away visiting & at a poetry festival. But I did include all of last week’s prompts in one poem, I think.
    https://leepursewarden.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/dreaming-of-prompts/

  14. rob kistner on April 5, 2011 at 6:12 am

    Pepper Head”

  16. vivienne blake on April 7, 2011 at 12:12 am

    I’ve been so busy chasing my tail round so many prompts that I forgot to come back and post my link! This is to a Bigtent prompt http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/15-years-ago-for-napowrimo-day-1/

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