National Blog Posting Month

Is everyone poeming? & a challenge...

So, I have a question. Is everyone writing everyday? Writing a new poem everyday? Working out old poems everyday? This feels like National Poetry Month to me.

Here's a challenge, one I will try to undertake myself today, and let me tell you, it won't be easy, there's no school today, so that means there's little to no mommy-thinking time!

Your Challenge, if you choose to accept it: head on over to the read. write. poem. website. get your random word. if you like, refresh and get another, and another. now, sit down and write an eleven line poem. then come back here and post a link. can we do that? post a link?

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Started Nov 6 2007 by:

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Tags: read.write.poem., writing, challenge

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Adam Nov 7 2007

I am writing every day. I'm not going to cheat by only posting embedded YouTube videos for NaBloPoMo. But not poetry every day. Maybe every other day, but work really drains creativity. At least my work does. I did attempt this challenge, first I did not follow the rules well (too many lines and only 2 of 3 prompts) then a second time following the rules. Now, I hope some other people get some links here so I'm not alone. -tom

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Permalink Reply by This Girl Remembers Nov 7 2007

Well, I set out to follow the rules but I couldn't manage to end mine in eleven lines either. But I like how it turned out, so I thought I'd share it anyway: Snake Oil

I'll try again tomorrow and make myself keep it to eleven. :) Thanks for the great challenge!

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Permalink Reply by upsidedownpoet Nov 7 2007

It's a good challenge, and I may try it out at the weekend. I'm blogging every day, but I wanted to finish the journal of my trip to the UK before concentrating on poetry - I have a few days to go, and then I will be blogging about poetry more.

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Permalink Reply by jillypoet Nov 7 2007

Well, a day late, but not a poem short. I did it, alas, not in eleven lines. What was I thinking? I posted it at my blog The Wife Stands Alone

And I will be discussing the process over at Fertile Ground. Can't make the link work. Bah!

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Permalink Reply by leslie f. miller Nov 7 2007

I'm really confused. Where's the web site? And where's the random word? And what eleven-line poem? I'm missing something. Links would be helpful.

There are really too many places to keep track of. I keep thinking THIS is the Read Write Poem blog.

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Permalink Reply by leslie f. miller Nov 7 2007

OK, here is the link to Read, Write, Poem. It's hard to find the little box with the random word, but it's somewhere in the middle. So I guess the job is to get one or many random words and write an eleven-line poem.

And now it makes sense to me.

I keep forgetting there's a separate site.

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Permalink Reply by jillypoet Nov 7 2007

Sorry. Links & stuff are my personal nemesis. Glad you found the site!

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Permalink Reply by January Nov 8 2007

It's been challenging writing poems every day. While I'm two poems off my pace, the experince has been good overall. I haven't tried this exercise by you can read my poems thus far at my blog: Poet Mom.

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Permalink Reply by sbpoet Nov 8 2007

I've been posting daily, but not poeming daily. My usual poem days are Wednesday and Thursday, and here are my poetry posts for this week:

Poetic Statement

snapshot poem

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Permalink Reply by leslie f. miller Nov 8 2007

I wrote confession by refreshing 11 times and using whatever words I got, in order, one in each line.

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Permalink Reply by Christine Nov 10 2007

I'll try this tomorrow. Thanks for the idea, jillypoet.

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Permalink Reply by Christine Nov 11 2007

Jillypoet,

Here's a link to a poem (a fib) I wrote using the prompt generator. Very fun! I wrote a fib instead of an 11-line poem, don't know why, I just did. The poem's called, "My Last Confession".

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