Respond to this…
We Write Poems:
So you’re standing on that stage and the lights go down, or come up, or the spot lands on you. Then you have a clear inner sight in response to the director’s prompt, or you don’t and you’re just winging it, or the words just seem to come all of themselves from your mouth. You see, there’s really no “wrong way” to respond to this prompt, except that the invitation was to respond in some immediate and visceral manner. Maybe even surprise ourselves in the process!
The seed for this process and prompt was a single line from a diary. (Please refer back to the original posting for the full prompt.) We hope that perhaps you took this opportunity to respond in a more emotive rather than rational manner. Can we be both writer and audience to our own poems, a process of unexpected self discovery? Your time now to respond.
Don’t have a poem yet? Perhaps read a few done by others here, be inspired. There’s still plenty of time to discover a poem for yourself!
Leave the links to your poems in the comments of this post, then go visit your fellow writers’ sites and read their work. Remember to leave only positive comments in the spirit of sharing and not critiquing. We look forward to reading your poems!
Please remember to include a link with your blog poem post that links right back to here, this “Post Your Poems Day”, so that others reading your poem can also share in this community poem experience – maybe even someone new to We Write Poems!
If you are new to WWP, please be welcome to look around and read. The full prompt description you can find under “Recent Posts” on the top right of our page.
January 18, 2012 at 12:38 am
http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/dear-diary/
January 18, 2012 at 1:52 am
Is this site going dark?
Dulce et decorum est
January 18, 2012 at 3:09 am
No, not dark, but we will carry the banner as you can see. The timing just seemed inappropriate for going dark, but the concern is valid and I do suggest folks follow the banner link to learn more – and respond.
neil
January 18, 2012 at 3:03 am
Well the prompt does say, need not be literal, and I take that to heart. When I looked or listened this is the response I found. Good I think not to hold “answers” tightly in hand. So it is…
mosaic incantations
January 18, 2012 at 4:52 am
Thank you for carrying the banner!
Frank (The Queen Mother’s Tale)
January 18, 2012 at 4:55 am
Doggone it Neil, you did it again, you threw us a brain teaser. To get started I had to drink two fingers of single malt (or so) to write this one (I have no heat in my poetry writing hovel, keeps me alert). After that handshake with Scotch I started singing with a brogue so my poem became a ballad for old times sake and the “The Youth of 1916″.
January 18, 2012 at 5:27 am
This week, we speak of “Time”:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2012/01/16/time/
-Nicole
January 18, 2012 at 6:21 am
Even enlarged my old eyes couldn’t read your poem. Could you copy it from a Word doc?
January 18, 2012 at 8:42 am
Nicole, I have the same problem as Viv even with my specs on.
January 18, 2012 at 10:32 am
Viv and Donald, you have to click on it twice to enlarge it.
January 18, 2012 at 11:14 am
Here’s the problem — I can’t format it into columns and have them both display properly side by side.
I’ll offer an alternate version later today.
-Nicole
January 18, 2012 at 11:27 am
Okay, try the post now. I included a PDF version of the poem.
-Nicole
January 18, 2012 at 5:27 am
Hey all. My first submission: http://bit.ly/xbM7X0. Enjoy!
January 18, 2012 at 6:12 am
My offering.
http://awakenedwords.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/dance-again/
Off to click the banner.
January 18, 2012 at 6:30 am
Here is my take on the prompt…
Pamela
“The Kitchen Walls”
January 18, 2012 at 7:23 am
Hi,
I posted my link in the wrong place… Here it is again:
http://www.thehappyamateur.com/2012/01/forever-young.html
Thank you again for the prompt.
January 18, 2012 at 8:52 am
The irst thoughts may not have been the right ones, but they evoked an image. Find it here:
http://wojisme.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/dance-no-more/
January 18, 2012 at 10:44 am
Here’s my go at responding…with “Stage Fright”…
http://whenwordsescape.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/stage-fright/
~Paula
January 18, 2012 at 4:19 pm
this is the poem which goes with the response I posted on the other page
“…I realized that all the boys…I had danced with are dead”
And do you remember the music?
How bright and gay it was
And laughter, yes, they laughed
All those brave doomed boys
Now can you feel
The pressure of their arms about your waist:?
Your tiny toes and their big feet in their
Private ballet of following the pattern
They had been told when they were children
And how they had hated the dancing school
, but they did as they were told
And danced with the little girls, their friends
And one day not too long ago
Something stirred inside them and the girls
Became exciting, mysterious
ancient battlements to be explored…
And so their last night on English soil
They spent dancing with the girls, their loves some
Even become wives and mothers but most were young
And kept their youngness until the skeleton face
Of war intruded in your dreams of love and ripped away
All hope, all love, your future shrunk to nothing
In those lines and you began to name the dead
Those who you would never see again
All taken away and what kind of world
Was this you lived in –
Small, narrow, empty
Alone for the rest of your life – alone.
January 18, 2012 at 9:40 pm
here is mine ..for #89..also in conjunction with 3word wednsday..using words silver..freak and downhill
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2012/01/isadora-going-downhill.html
January 19, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Here’s mine for # 89.
http://siggiofmaine.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/2549/
Peace,
Siggi of Downeast Maine
http://www.siggiofmaine.wordpress.com
January 20, 2012 at 8:44 am
A very moving prompt.
http://thecosmicword.blogspot.com/2012/01/empty-checkered-floor.html