COME ONE, COME ALL / June 11
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 angry pantoum — 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.)
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My brain has decided sleep is optional…(just one more thing to be angry about!) So here is my first Pantoum EVER!
http://cynthiashort.blogspot.com
Congrats! I can’t wait to read it. :-)
Posting ViV’s comment, since she is away!
“I tried, I really tried, and failed abysmally. I’ve written lots of angry poems (mostly political) but couldn’t tame my thoughts into the pantoum straightjacket.
I did find an old one, fairly angry, and that will be on my blog if anyone’s interested.
In any case, I shan’t be here on Friday, as off to UK for my graduation. (Still boasting about it!)
http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/bigtent-angry-pantoum/ ”
Congrats, ViV! Have a great trip!
I hope there is wonderful pomp and great circumstance Viv!!! ;)
Pantoum. It seems to need some mental co-ordination I lack.
Please Return This Pantoum With My Apologies
Hey Barbara (good morning, sunshine!) — I come up on a password-protected page with that link…is that your intention?
I tried, too, Barbara – can’t get in. :-(
I take it back. Found the password lower on this page. :-)
My first attempt at a Pantoum:
DOG EAT DOG
oops, I meant to mention the password is: nelle
Okey dokey, then! =)
Not an angry poem per se, but it is a pantoum:
Pantoum to an Aging Father
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The very worst pantoum ever! Sigh. Never was very good at following form. Perhaps I’ll try to write, not on anger, but an angry pantoum over the weekend. Though it’s hard to consider such raging passions in the Spring… :)
A Pantoum on Anger
thank you for pushing me into trying a pantoum; I loved it!! I’m not sure if mine is the way it should be –no rhyme– but I had fun trying to figure out the pattern. it’s a found poem, using a news article that makes just about everyone angry these days –
http://another2doors.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/a-british-petroleum-found-pantoum/
Anger’s not what comes through in this poem, but it’s a pantoum: Kyron
I think the elephant ate my comment — or perhaps the clowns.
(I got an error page.)
so, again: thanks for the prompt!!
http://another2doors.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/a-british-petroleum-found-pantoum/
Thanks for this fascinating prompt. I did a pantoum exploring anger.
Pantoum for an Anger Persona
Gemma
I seem to being having a problem commenting on your blog.
This is a provocative piece and very well constructed.
Pamela
I enjoyed experimenting with the pantoum as I wrote two poems about things that make me angry.
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2010/06/without-consequenceperson-of-my-bad.html
Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/06/all-too-familiar-tragedy.html
Here is mine:
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/06/patriots-all.html
I have only ever written one pantoum and strangely enough I was very upset at the time.
Quel coincidence! Here t’is
‘ Wet Monday Afternoon At Rose Bay ‘
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
an anger pantoum. My first pantoum!
unfortunately, pantoums won’t fit well in my photos so here are two just on angery to brighten your day.
http://theoddinkwell.com/2010/06/11/how-it-begins/
my first one for this prompt
and what would really tick me off:
http://theoddinkwell.com/2010/06/11/pissed/
It was a beautiful day when I sat down to write my pantoum. So my mind flatly forgot about the angry part of the prompt and instead honed in on writing a pantoum. Only after it was finished and I reread the prompt did I realize that I had half followed the prompt. But, I expect, that part of a good prompt is that it leads you to places you hadn’t intended to explore. Thanks for the lead.
http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2010/06/pantoun-for-one-who-writes-in-margins.html
I didn’t write about anger, but did write a pantoum:
Full Day
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2010/06/another-mother-poem-full-day.html
I didnt write a pantoum though :(
http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2010/06/waging-war.html
I have attempted pantoums several times before, but never with any success. I am pretty pleased with this pantoum, though!
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I just couldn’t find any anger in me, kept trying to drum it up, but ended up just writing…
http://mypoeticlicense.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/obtuse-with-form/
- Dina
I actually did end up writing about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill…
[...] impossible to express anger in a pantoum. I’ve tried, all this past week to meet that Big Top Poetry challenge (this link includes the prompt and the poets’ responses), and the closest I could come to [...]
Like Viv, I couldn’t get my head wrapped around anger in a pantoum form. It ended up as sarcasm…Deepwater Rah Rah
This was a great prompt. I like my piece, but doubt I’ll send it on to its intended. ;)
http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/2010/06/dutify-your-dharma.html
This is my first pantoum.
It is about my ex-boss and I am still fairly angry with her.
Thanks for a great prompt!
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/06/it-was-never-about-you-big-tent-poetry.html
the circus is so busy already! wonderful!
here’s mine — no password this week, kids!
http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/angry-pantoum-for-big-tent-poetry/
back to read in a bit!
My goodness, people were up in the middle of the night, LOL.
Here’s my Anger pantoum:
http://troublebeingstrong.blogspot.com/2010/06/when-anger-erupts.html
Apologies in advance if I offend anybody…
The Mess in Texas
WoW! It’s great to see you all here. I pulled a bunch of links and comments out of pending/spam … but need to write a little before I can sample your poems!
It’s great to see you all here, no matter what you wrote about or how. :-)
I didn’t write a pantoum but it was inspired by the subject of anger or old hurt.
shooting at the moon
Thanks again for the prompt and the site! It’s an ideal circus.
Endings are the Same
Try as I might I couldn’t channel the anger quite subtly enough for my taste, but the work did inspire me to revise an old pantoum I’d written some time ago.
http://poemsaboutnothinginparticular.blogspot.com/2010/06/pantoum-1.html
It’s way, way, way too easy for me to come up with things I’m angry about. :-/
Break the Silence
This prompt put me in touch with a very deep-seeded personal anger… Anger – 3 Contemplations
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hey, everyone! thanks for being part of the circus this week!
there’s been some discussion about the pantoum form and some are wondering what are the possible benefits of the form. so i thought i’d share one of the most powerful pantoums i’ve read, one that benefits tremendously from the structure of the form:
http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19544
it’s remarkable. and it’s clear how the form makes sense. examples as strong as this one to help illustrate the strengths/power of the form. :)
Thanks for the link. You are right. Powerful piece, and it demonstrates the haunting intensity repetition can bring. I also notice people using words like spiraling, and spin when commenting on each other’s work.
The power is there for the making in this form. Several pieces are mesmerizing this week.
I’m a big time pantoum fan. I love studying form… I think all poets can benefit from such exploration. Revisiting this form was perfect, especially with the prose I have been writing as of late.
Thank you, Carolee!!! xxoo
That was a stunning piece. Painful, but the form seemed to create a cushion that kept the rawness of that pain at a distance. As with Rob’s poems, I can see how form can provide a vehicle that might not scare off a reader with such intense issues.
I finally, finally, finally, finally, finally… hear me say FINALLY responded to a prompt. I have been in a poetry funk since April ended and pray the end is here.
“I can’t be bad”
http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/jjspoetry/2010/06/i-cant-be-bad.html
I’ve never tried pantoum before, but I love experimenting with new (to me) forms. Here’s mine: A Necklace for the Goddess of the Empty Sea
Here’s mine: Behold Our Dark, Magnificent Horror. A pantoum, but not a very angry one.
a most enjoyable prompt… i found it hard to write about anger…at first i thought yeah, i gotta lot of anger but when it came time to express there was nothing.. so i ended up with an altogether different poem than what i had intended… stirred up
Here is mine:
Twenty First Century Brimstone
Pantoum is a beautiful form, enjoyed writing this – http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2010/06/12/pantoum-of-an-angry-mother-who-loves-sunshine/
Here is my poem. http://www.myhouseholdjunk.com/2010/06/12/the-living-spirit-of-a-small-oklahoma-town/
Its about anger over tornados and the impact they have on small towns.
Welcome to the Big Tent, Lindsey!
This is my first posting here. I love the site!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2010/06/scratch-shove-and-crunch.html
Eran, it’s great to have you here. I remember you from the old days at RWP. :-)
ARRRGH! I tried all week & finally decided to lock PANTOUM in the same closet as SUDOKU. Here is my angry non-pantoum poem:
Outside Your Apartment
Snow is falling softly
like feathers around
the streetlight. It is
evening and I am standing
in the falling snow.
Standing in the snow
angry because I didn’t
wear boots; angry because
the door is locked; angry
because I don’t belong
here; angry because I
hate the snow and you
brought me here.
One last angry trick
on your part.
Ah, Maxine. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out! This is a fabulous poem — the repetition adds to the intensity of the moment: standing, angry, snow — and a couple of great last lines to send it off.
Ah, but why did you follow? Lots of anger, heat despite the snow.
Standing in the snow without boots I would be angry too!
Well said!
Pamela