COME ONE, COME ALL / April 29
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.
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Five for now, two to come:
For the mason jars: Comfort Food
A bad idea: Daredevil
Kidnapping: Monster of the Week
At the center: An Evening at the LGBT Center
Floating: Padmāsana (Lotus Pose)
You get the animal “bring IT on” poem-a-day award. Yowza, Joseph!
I balance dedication with the worry that there’s something really important that I’m forgetting to do instead. ;)
Ok. Here’s one, to prompt (and not the long-a** poem that came from goodness-knows-where-this-late-in-the-month):
Finding Center
(I can’t believe the poem-a-dayers only have two more for April. Wow. I don’t know about you, but my peak was abut two weeks ago. :-))
Some people might think it’s a bad idea for my husband and I to dance the way we dance. But we do it anyway with a lot more energy than ability and have a grand old time: A Couple On The Move.
Attempted two of the ideas [joined in a single post] here : http://ladynimue.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/falling-loating/
What’s at center?
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/at-center/
Elizabeth
Center or centre……mine’s red.
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2011/04/red-centre.html
Staying up way too late on a school night to post a poem: “I am sorry about my fear”
Okay, I may not be as prolific (or as good a poet) as Joseph Harker, but here’s another one: You know
Don’t sell yourself short, Mr. Walker!
A poem about things in mason jars.
Day 29, thanks for the prompts,
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2011/04/portrait-of-sociopath-or-who-misplaced.html
Totally off-prompt this week, because I’m on a Snow White tangent, which I ill complete over the weekend…
scroll down the blog (link in name} to see words from snow white’s mum, dad, stepmum, the woodcutter and the ‘dwarves’.
What’s at the centre for me.
http://patteran.typepad.com
Well, here are two of those:
Getting kidnapped: http://phoenix-em.com/mariyakoleva/2011/04/in-the-middle-of-kidnapping-day-27/
Being in the center: http://phoenix-em.com/mariyakoleva/2011/04/the-worlds-center-napowrimo-day-28/
Almost over now, this beautiful April… Sad.
Here is a little poem about floating: dead man’s float.
I wrote to the mason jar prompt this week. Thanks for being here, and for providins inspiration this month.
http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/2011/04/napowrimo-26-slightly-ajar.html
I couldn’t comment this morning. I was taken with the surreal image, which was sad in a pretty way.
I couldn’t comment either. But I enjoyed this. It was whimsical, romantic, and sad all at the same time.
http://honeyhaiku.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/be-free/
Mason Jar Prompt
Good morning! Juliet had a “bad idea.”
http://versebender.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/two-kids-from-verona/
A poem about (Good) things in Mason jars http://Marianv.blog.co.uk
I used a couple this week:
Floating: http://rhiannonproblematising.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/napowrimo-day-29/
and
Centre: http://rhiannonproblematising.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/napowrimo-day-27/
A story with links to the past:
http://leepursewarden.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/suzanne-more-than-coffee/
Here is my viewers’ favorite: http://verseinanutshell.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/along/
A fun write.
http://somethingsithinkabout-annell-annell.blogspot.com/2011/04/wednesday-april-27-2011-napowrimo-day.html
The Boogie Man???
http://sidelinesbyjeanne.blogspot.com/
This is a minimalist piece called
Thank God for Dentists
http://dannyearlsimmons.blogspot.com/2011/04/thank-god-for-dentists.html
A plea for attention…
http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2011/04/27/pay-attention/
Happy Friday, everyone…
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/2011/04/day-29.html
Too many prompts, I had to center on something:
http://dwlcx.blogspot.com/2011/04/at-center.html
Revised version of
Repertoire
http://dannyearlsimmons.blogspot.com/2011/04/repertoire.html
I’ve clustered most of them into a single post. The Roundel is, I think, my favorite though. That and the header.
a week of BTP
a week of BTP
Thanks for the prompts and the site!
http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com/2011/04/tanka-for-big-tent-poetry_29.html
I wrote a poem about stuff in mason jars:
Preserve
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2011/04/a-poem-about-mason-jars-for-big-tent-poetry.html
Written for day 29 of NAPOWRIMO, this piece is sparked by the devastating power of our planet, as exhibited chillingly in the past couple days throughout the southeast… Unfazed
Unrelated to each other except by the uniting prompt… diving into the whole ‘poem’ (I take the word VERY lightly) -a-day thing a bit late, & loving the discipline.
Spiraling In
Not Finger Soup
I’m grateful for the prompts, they’ve got me thinking!
So, what did I do this week? I kept repeating one particularly bad idea.
My Mason Jar poem is at:
http://henryclemmonspoet.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-want-to-be-penny-for-big-tent.html
Thank you for any comments.
-Henry C.
The one about a bad idea and wheels coming off.
On reading Norwegian Wood
Here’s mine
http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-center.html
Today’s poem is here: http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/day-29-the-home-stretch/
Mason jar poem here: http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/day-27-weird-science/
One more to go! Thanks to the Big Tent for helping me complete the 30 poems.
One more about wheels: Ghost Bikes
Last one tomorrow!
i wrote a poem about what’s at the center ~
http://haikulovesongs.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/camellia/
and a poem about floating ~
http://haikulovesongs.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/my-love-and-i/
thanks for the great prompts all month.
I did 6 our of 7. There are a couple here: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/kilner-jars-et…igtent-1-and-3/
Sorry I haven’t been able to read/comment on everyone’s poems – I am at my daughter’s in Northumberland on Granny duty all week, and we were out all day yesterday. I really do appreciate the comments of the many visitors to my blog (which was exactly 1 year old on 24.4.)
Last one, for the breakfast prompt… attempted a double sestina thing for a bit of hectic fun. Wanted to go out with a bang. :)
Carnal Knowledge
I did prompt #1 for my final NaPo poem, looking back at some of my recurrent themes: http://intotherosegarden.tumblr.com/post/5082437835/things-i-preserve
I can’t believe it’s over… I feel a mixture of relief and regret. Mostly relief.
I went off the prompts this week. Many of you have probably seen the news coverage of the tornado that went through the town I live in on Wednesday, April 27th. Shortly after the storm passed, my husband and I went into town to try to get to our church which he pastors. Covenant Presbyterian is sitting on the edge of devastation. The church was merely clipped by the tornado but we have been left with almost every tree on the property down and the sanctuary badly damaged. The neighborhood across the street which contains an elementary school has been destroyed and is unrecognizable. The tornado continued its pathway out of the church’s immediate area taking out large sections of the town. Hardest hit were areas that were high-density low income residents.
Walking to the Church
Best wishes. We count ourselves incredibly lucky that the storms dissolved before reaching our home near Atlanta. And somehow those personally close in NW Georgia and SW Virginia were spared. So many were not so lucky. I’m hearing horrible things from others in Tuscaloosa. I’m not even sure what to wish more than the best possible. Stay safe.
Pam,
Thank you for this poem, for personalizing the horrible disaster. My heart goes out to you and your community. That there is an outpouring of support, that lives can somehow be rebuilt.
Oh, I have one more!
It combines the last three prompts: floating, something with its wheels falling off and a stranger buying you breakfast:
Here it is: http://phoenix-em.com/mariyakoleva/2011/04/to-the-limit-napowrimo-day-29/
I’m still ‘going’ on the ‘center’ prompt!
http://upwardfrog.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/what-matters/
Here’s another one: Being Small
And here’s what I would shout down the street: Public Service Announcement
Oh, my. I’m terribly behind! At least I got one done for now…
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2011/05/core.html