The New Year is upon us. Toss your hat into the ring for one or both of these challenges. Looking forward to reading your journal of your thoughts on fellow blogger poems or established poet’s poems. Click on Mr. Linky to see the journals I have started and any others added since this post. I think its [...]
Journal for Poetry Challenge #7 DAY 1: Jan, 1, 2012 Her Kind by Anne Sexton Poems sometimes are created in one session, but most of the great ones, take many drafts. It has been noted that this poem took 19 drafts over the course of a week but before those 19 drafts this existed as [...]
Journal for Poetry Challenge #8 WEEK 1: Jan, 1, 2012 Ladder by Ethel Mortenson Davis The persona of this poem, innocent and trusting, wonders if the Tarantula, a symbol of entrapment can provide the means necessary to leave our earthly prison. The poet here as chosen a tarantula, more or less the biggest of spiders, appropriate for [...]
(Starting Date for this Challenge is Jan, 1, 2012 — posted early to provide proper advance notice. Do not start this until the New Year — you can even consider this a New Year’s resolution — will repost this every Wednesday until the New Year.) Poetry Challenge #7 is to create a journal of links [...]
(Starting Date for this Challenge is Jan, 1, 2012 — posted early to provide proper advance notice. Do not start this until the New Year — you can even consider this a New Year’s resolution — will repost this every Wednesday until the New Year.) As stated in Poetry Challenge #5, the level of participation [...]
Response to Poetry Challenge #8. This can be done as a page or a post. Doing this as a post. Journal for Poetry Challenge #8 WEEK 1: Jan, 2, 2012 Pretty Little Scars by Vampire Weather I like a strong message but am especially pleased when the mastery of handling words is directed at supporting that message. This poem [...]
(Starting Date for this Challenge is Jan, 1, 2012 — posted early to provide proper advance notice. Do not start this until the New Year — you can even consider this a New Year’s resolution — will repost this every Wednesday until the New Year.) As stated in Poetry Challenge #5, the level of participation [...]
Posting this first before posting Poetry Challenge #7. This is an example of the post or page that can be used for this challenge. I am creating this as a post as well as a page. Totally up to you as which option. Below is the contents: Journal for Poetry Challenge #7 DAY 1: Jan, [...]
Wednesday Poetry Challenge #5 These next two challenges are previews to a pair of challenges that will be posted around early to mid December. If the challenges posted this and next week invoke no interest, than that is a good reason for me to re-think the more extensive challenges I have prepared for December. For this challenge, please [...]
Wednesday Poetry Challenge #4 Last challenge provided exercises that removed or added words. This challenge is about information management by addition. One should be skilled enough to reduce or increase the number of words in a line, stanza or poem as creative demands (or editorial requirements) dictate. For this challenge start with a two word sentence [...]
Wednesday Poetry Challenge #3 Just to set expectations, these poetry challenges are not intended to inspire you, entertain you, or make you feel better as poet. If that happens, great! If not, hopefully they will help sharpen your poetry skills over the long run. So think of this not so much as playing HORSE at the basketball playground, but [...]
Wednesday Poetry Challenge #2 With this challenge, you take the prose selection you reformatted for Challenge #1 and convert it into a poem, based on your definition of poem. For example, If you found the following prose selection initially: Time has come for us to leave this island: a way to do such must be [...]
Wednesday Poetry Challenge #1 What is the different between poetry and prose? I cannot answer that. Some might say poetry has evolved so that the only difference is that poetry has stanzas. However, with the increasing popularity of “prose poetry” (poetry written in prose instead of verse) that really doesn’t hold either. Is poetry more [...]
Not every Wednesday, but some Wednesdays, I will post a Poetry Challenge. I was inspired by seeing a few of these in the WordPress blogosphere and was thinking that maybe there was room for one more — one a little less traditional, but still focused on developing writing skills for the poet. The approach is simple: [...]
Wednesday Poetry Challenge #6
Wednesday Poetry Challenge #6 This and the previous challenge are previews to a pair of challenges that will be posted around early to mid December. If these first two challenges invoke only limited interest, than that is a good reason for me to re-think the more extensive challenges I have prepared for December. For this challenge, please provide a link [...]
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