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08/26/2013 01:11:45 AM · #1 |
I'd like to see poetry challenges. Maybe a two-week submission time, because these might be hard.
For instance, possible challenges would be:
The Hunting Of The Snark
Kublai Khan
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Message edited by author 2013-08-26 01:46:46. |
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08/26/2013 01:15:24 AM · #2 |
A bit heavy on the Coleridge. Still, not a bad idea in the least.
How would you possibly work a naked woman into this though? |
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08/26/2013 01:17:10 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Cory:
A bit heavy on the Coleridge. Still, not a bad idea in the least.
How would you possibly work a naked woman into this though? |
I just need an Abyssinian maiden, and a dulcimer. |
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08/26/2013 01:35:04 AM · #4 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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08/26/2013 02:00:35 AM · #5 |
| around here we write our own poetry. |
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08/26/2013 02:19:50 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by tnun:
around here we write our own poetry. |
brilliant |
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08/26/2013 02:25:49 AM · #7 |
Or Purple Cow
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one |
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08/26/2013 02:28:43 AM · #8 |
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08/26/2013 02:34:12 AM · #9 |
joy joy
come to me
a bit closer
so i can see
Message edited by author 2013-08-26 02:38:25. |
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08/26/2013 07:38:07 AM · #10 |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
nobody lived in an anyhow town
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Ideas of Order in Key West
Howl |
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08/26/2013 08:14:59 AM · #11 |
Pound and pound on the ketchup bottle
First none will come, and then a lottle. |
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08/26/2013 09:05:18 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by tnun:
around here we write our own poetry. |
Heh, made me dig up one I wrote some many moons ago.
Brain Lint
Brain lock
Word stop.
Writer's block.
Crack the cranium open.
Shake brain for ideas.
No rattled thoughts.
Squeeze out the creative juices.
Not a drop.
Roll that gray matter.
Hmmm...carpeting.
Wow, what a great lint trap!!! |
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08/26/2013 09:50:51 AM · #13 |
| There once was a girl from Nantucket...:) |
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08/26/2013 09:55:29 AM · #14 |
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08/26/2013 10:12:30 AM · #15 |
Sailing to Byzantium
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle |
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08/26/2013 10:28:03 AM · #16 |
The Waste Land
Message edited by author 2013-08-26 10:30:21. |
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08/26/2013 11:10:05 AM · #17 |
| Dickinson - because I need her bees! |
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08/26/2013 11:16:21 AM · #18 |
I absolutely loved this one when I heard it on NPR (one of the poet laureates):
You are the bread and the knife,
the crystal goblet and the wine.
You are the dew on the morning grass
and the burning wheel of the sun.
You are the white apron of the baker,
and the marsh birds suddenly in flight.
However, you are not the wind in the orchard,
the plums on the counter,
or the house of cards.
And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.
There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air.
It is possible that you are the fish under the bridge,
maybe even the pigeon on the general's head,
but you are not even close
to being the field of cornflowers at dusk.
And a quick look in the mirror will show
that you are neither the boots in the corner
nor the boat asleep in its boathouse.
It might interest you to know,
speaking of the plentiful imagery of the world,
that I am the sound of rain on the roof.
I also happen to be the shooting star,
the evening paper blowing down an alley
and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table.
I am also the moon in the trees
and the blind woman's tea cup.
But don't worry, I'm not the bread and the knife.
You are still the bread and the knife.
You will always be the bread and the knife,
not to mention the crystal goblet and--somehow--the wine.
Billy Collins
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08/26/2013 11:47:48 AM · #19 |
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08/26/2013 12:14:31 PM · #20 |
i wanted one life
you wanted another
we couldn't have our cake
so we ate eachother.
Roger Mcgough |
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08/26/2013 12:27:39 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
I absolutely loved this one when I heard it on NPR (one of the poet laureates):
Billy Collins |
See if you can catch Mr. Collins reading his poem "The Lanyard" -- it's used as one of the "Poetry Everywhere" series of gap-fillers on PBS ... |
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08/26/2013 12:58:19 PM · #22 |
| yes, Billy is the ribbon hawg of the poetry world. |
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08/27/2013 12:29:21 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by vawendy:
I absolutely loved this one when I heard it on NPR (one of the poet laureates):
Billy Collins |
See if you can catch Mr. Collins reading his poem "The Lanyard" -- it's used as one of the "Poetry Everywhere" series of gap-fillers on PBS ... |
I treasure my collection of lanyards...loved this video! |
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