COME ONE, COME ALL / April 8
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
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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.
Here’s a poem with lungs in it: http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2011/04/bone-emptiness.html
Terribly sorry about this, but here’s six…
For the broken window prompt: Come In with the Night
For the no longer exists prompt: Descent
For the lungs prompt: Pranayama (Breath Work)
For the fish prompt: Matsyasana (Fish Pose)
For the revolution prompt: Dear Stonewall
For the sorry prompt: Dodging a Bullet
And I’ll get to the legend one later. :)
Morning. : )
http://thingy-thingy-ponderinglife.blogspot.com/2011/04/mister-mizzle.html
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2011/04/windows-speak.html
From windows , I speak
Yesterday I wrote my first ever acrostic. And being both a limerick addict and a sucker for punishment, I did an acrostic limerick. Crazy, but fun. :) Here’s my Acrostic Limerick
Very clever, good use of the form.
For day #7 of NAPOWRIMO… Deep Indigo
Day 8 and with one of the big tent’s prompts,
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2011/04/windows-change-lives-napowrimo-8-broken.html
I am a fish: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/whale-shark-for-napowrimo-day-6/
Here’s mine for NaPoWriMo day 8:
http://says-sir-ten.blogspot.com/2011/04/day-8-napowrimo-2011.html
Here is my poem with lungs: http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2011/04/04/breath/
Here’s mine from a war zone.
http://patteran.typepad.com
Did them all, some a little less successfully than others.
I kind of like 2) and 3)
http://wp.me/pdTja-1GV
I like three very much indeed.
Having just enjoyed a cruise, something watery seemed in keeping.
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2011/04/ode-to-flying-fish.html
Camelot “no longer exists”…and here’s why. “Trouble in Camelot”
http://versebender.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/trouble-in-camelot/
Something that no longer exists…
http://eclipseofthemoon.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/the-saddest-memory/
Welcome aboard, Eclipse!
Great prompts! I wrote to the one about a broken window (sort of): paying for damage.
Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2011/04/order-of-day.html
Am sorry : http://ladynimue.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/iam-sorr/
I wrote a letter to a war zone (which is also, kind of, an “I’m sorry” poem):
Express mail
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2011/04/poem-letter-to-a-war-zone-for-big-tent-poetry.html
Hello,
First timer here!
I did a poem with lungs in it, http://chickthingpoems.blogspot.com/2011/04/strange-dreampoem.html and was also inspired by the prompt about getting undressed, (from last week?)http://sarahsestina.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/sestina-day-22-eden-a-pwoemrd/.
My ongoing sestina project is here if you want a nosy round.http://sarahsestina.wordpress.com/ Critics welcome.
x
Sarah
Hi Sarah. Nice to have you here!
I chose the fish prompt. Also, if you scroll down to day 7 (just below), you will find a poem about the troubled boy, Aumen, I have written about in previous pieces. This one gets to the root of his problems…
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/
If not lungs, then gills…
http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/2011/04/napowrimo-8-my-day.html
This is one of the poems I wrote this week for Poetry Month —the prompt comes from Poetic Asides
http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html
Here’s mine for today,
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/time-out/
Elizabeth
I discovered you and NaPoWriMon on the 5th. I have written to two of your prompts:
1. Broken window: All for the want of a little afternoon breeze
2. Something that no longer exists: Requiem to my Lost Creativity
And one with no prompt at all: Spring is here! Spring is here!
http://itistimetothinkformyself.blogspot.com/2011/04/big-tent-poetrya-z-f-is-4-fish.html
Happy Friday, thanks for the writing hints/prompts.
:)
This is my first time at Big Tent Poetry. I am submitting for the prompt: Write a poem as if you were a fish.
http://verseinanutshell.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/struggle/
Hi Ava! Welcome aboard!
http://honeyhaiku.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/the-bell-toll/
Happy Friday!
Thanks for all the prompts this week. Thinking about lungs.
Inevitable
Great prompts. #2 brought back a memory I hadn’t thought of in a long time.
http://www.starsandwillows.com/2011/04/naked/
Oh – I’m a week behind. This was from last week’s batch.
Had to go back to the Civil War for this letter.
http://thepoetsquill.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/elizabeth-i-love-you/
Not a poem…but a Wordle…who knows…maybe inspiration for a poem prompt down the road? I had fun using the Wordle site and wanted to share…saw this description of raccoons and couldn’t resist…looking forward to visiting blogs and reading poems this weekend!
http://sidelinesbyjeanne.blogspot.com/
Interesting prompts, to be sure! Thanks…
http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com/2011/04/poem-for-big-tent-poetry.html
Well, here it is – Day 8, or something like that… ;-)
http://phoenix-em.com/mariyakoleva/2011/04/the-shark-napowrimo-week-2/
Have been sick all week, so this week poem is still not finished! So I’m posting something I wrote last week.
http://www.thequietone.net/the_quiet_one/2011/04/big-tent-poem.html
The first line of this poem contains a broken window
http//Marianv.blog.co.uk
Day 8: Something that no longer exists (in the same way): http://wp.me/pv41q-n2
Scroll back for lines from Days 1-7, if you like!
While I’ve managed to write a poem a day, I’ve only managed to eek one out of the inspiration posted.
I chose the prompt: Write a letter poem to someone in a war zone or a revolution. Here’s how that poem turned out: http://elf-fu.livejournal.com/632649.html
Hello, M. Welcome to the Tent.
Thank you! And thanks for the prompts!
The only prompt I’ve written to so far this week is “as though you are a fish”: Agitation
Not as clever as I thought. Here’s the link:
http://sadlywaiting.blogspot.com/2011/04/agitation.html
I picked up on one prompt, the broken window:
the same lightning strike
flickers down on every block
a crack in the glass
(Also at my bitty page.)
I could stretch and say the following refers to something that no longer exists (also elsewhere):
Better dead than red,
so the early blossom said,
excusing its loss
These prompts are fantastic. I’m trying to push myself into not relying on prompts this year, but they definitely do help when I’m otherwise hitting wall. Thank you!
WOWZA! Look at all of these poems!
Here’s my contribution: http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/napowrimo-9-or-my-superpower-is-missing/
Day #6… Shuffle
The one about lungs.
Breathe
“A day late & …”
A play on the Chakras:
How To Read A Poem
The breath comes
from the root, the Earth
when you say the poem
Stand Up
feel the “Ooh” sound
red to green, to air
“ahh” from lungs
but you must be Standing
(even when sitting)
to push the bright blue sound
“eeee” thru the throat
where the Poem comes out.
Love this, Dan. The Capitalization. The bright blue sound. Yup. Love it.
http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2011/04/07/survival/
Hre’s another…
http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2011/04/06/purple-mountains-majesty/
Greetings all! I’ll leave you yesterday’s, Greetings, O Land of Hope*, of which I like the first stanza. (I’m writing very unevenly, but hopeful for stuff I can work with in revision.)
How are the rest of you doing?
Will be by to read Sunday! xox
The “weather blues” have my work coming in starts and stops Deb, but yesterday’s sun delivered a love poem I will share next week… :)
oh yes, the way a poem engaged with the world should be. You should send it to Split-this-Rock.
here’s my haibun using the prompt “Legend says ______”
http://haikulovesongs.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/venus/
Although not a major feature, there’s a busted window over at Scrambled, Not Fried
This one uses two prompts “Legend says” and broken windows.
monkey
Calling today’s metronym (tee-hee, I like that word) Big Tent prompt related may be a bit fishy, but why not… A little bit under water.