COME ONE, COME ALL / May 6
by Carolee, Deb & Jill
It’s show time! It’s time to post your revised poem — from something that has been sitting a while — 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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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.
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First in the queue! This saga has been sitting for quite a while.
http://patteran.typepad.com
Last month I got hooked on acrostic limericks, so I’ve written another one: Acrostic Limerick: Hot, Cross Lovers
I enjoyed this prompt, thanks.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2011/05/curtains-of-existence-big-tent-poetry.html
One of my earliest poems re-visited
http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/dawn/
Stumbled on this one last week,
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/gray-haired-woman/
Elizabeth
You’ll find mine here:
http://anthonynorth.com/2011/05/dont-make-this-film
Here is mine:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2011/05/musically-yours.html
Revision about the happiness
http://eclipseofthemoon.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/happiness-on-the-stake/
What do you know? You can go home. This was one of the first poems I wrote – back in 2007 – and it needs even more revision, but it was good to go back to a streetlight named bob.
This has been sitting for 217 years!
http://versebender.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/blakes-mistake/
Here’s my new version of a poem from 2 years ago… which do you like better?
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/2011/05/big-tent-poetry-prompt.html
Here’s one about urban chickens:
http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/2011/05/urban-chickens.html
A poem I’ve been revising for nine years. Please help.
http://imnotaverse.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/on-reading-make-believe/
I don’t often revise (more’s the pity, I expect), but you have “prompted” me to do so.
http://poetikat-km.blogspot.com/2011/05/big-tent-poetry-revisiting-poem-sex-on.html
Great Prompt. I went back to a poem I wrote about 15 years ago.
http://somethingsithinkabout-annell-annell.blogspot.com/2011/05/tuesday-may-3-2011-carrry-on-tuesday.html
A poem I wrote a year ago, revisited today:
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2011/05/good-mirrors.html
Here’s a revised poem—first written six years ago.
http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2011/05/digression.html
This was a fun one. I posted two versions of the poem — this year’s revision, and the latest of last year’s revisions, for comparison’s sake:
Beauty Parlor
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2011/05/beauty-parlor-a-revision-for-big-tent-poetry.html
The post-NaPoWriMo reawakening… An Audit, Audited
Happy Weekend! My mind seems to be a couple weeks back in prompts…Oh Well…Here’s what I’ve got.
Ooops…here’s the link. :)
http://sidelinesbyjeanne.blogspot.com/
Lovd it Jeanne. The top entry. Vry kool
Revised this one yesterday.
Paradise
http://dannyearlsimmons.blogspot.com/2011/01/paradise.html
I only resumed writing poetry last summer so here’s a revision of one from last August: Oak Tree.
Hi all – I’ve been so busy. Grateful for the revision prompt! Here’s mine:
http://www.starsandwillows.com/2011/05/invisible-mothers/
I revisited a favorite poem from a year ago, made some cuts in the first stanza. Thanks for the prompt/idea. Hope you don’t mind me pasting it here, don’t want to post it on my Blog just yet, as I think (yet again) about the changes.
SOME MORNING
A grey morning inside & out
we sit on the couch
quiet side by side
let the touch of our hips
our hands speak for us
or the stray tear
I turn off the radio
It’s OK we don’t know what to say
or want to say, it’s OK to be sitting
here side by side, actually
it’s more than OK, it’s better than
sailing, than getting drunk in a strange
town, because the grey will fade
there will be a morning again
for falling into bed, sheets tangled
in the dazzled angle of our light.
This one’s been incomplete for months. Still doesn’t feel right, but here it is:
http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2011/05/06/at-risk-of-sounding-quixotic/
Another one that’s been sitting around – a winter poem in May (but a cold May)
http://Marianv.blog.co.uk
Sometimes it sounds easier than it is. Thanks for the prompt and the site!
http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com/2011/05/poem-for-big-tent-poetry.html
Not a revision, though it probably needs one.
Some thoughts on the reaction to a pretty high profile death.
http://sarahsestina.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/sestina-day-52-seriously/
Great prompt!! My plans for this year, is to go back and revise some old poems. Not liking their forms anymore.
http://www.thequietone.net/the_quiet_one/2011/05/revising-old-poems.html
Here is my rework:
http://henryclemmonspoet.blogspot.com/2011/05/rock-star-big-tent-poetry-may-6-2011.html
Here’s my revision of Pacific Grove
Mine is Walking in a Crowded Field.
This got so far away from the original pom. I loved this prompt! Photograph
Thanks, M.A.S. And welcome to the tent.
So I did revise a poem. Yay!
Odysseus revisited
Still trying to get back into the groove after a trip, the flu, and the Poetic Asides Challenge.
http://enthusiasticsoul.blogspot.com/2011/05/big-tent-prompt-revise-something-old.html
This is my first time posting at Big Tent Poetry. I carved this one in the sand at Balsam Lake last summer.
http://beespoetry.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/thoughts-on-the-shore-of-balsam-lake/
I’d love to hear what you think!
Welcome to the tent, Bee.
Back after a brief hiatus, inspired by spring: http://strummedwords.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-migration.html
Here’s mine from way back in 2010. :)
http://judyidliketosay.blogspot.com/2010/11/we-agree.html
a gentle edit and rewrite of a poem I wrote in 2010… Heartfire (redux)
Here’s one I’d been sitting on a while…
http://turtlememoir.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/roundabout/
I attempted to revise something I wrote in 1991. Not sure that this is much of a revision: http://agnija-b.blogspot.com/2011/05/beggar-man-revisited.html. Here is the original: http://agnija-b.blogspot.com/2007/05/beggar-man.html.
I am new to blogging, but here’s one I wrote on occasion of mother’s day,
http://alivealways.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/son-to-mother-happy-mothers-day/
Here’s another the first poem I ever wrote on my blog (before that just the short one’s)
http://alivealways.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/fiascos-of-relationship/