Prompt #98, It’s Post Your Poems Day!
Signs
a community poem prompt
We Write Poems:
What “signs” did you find to reveal and describe to us? Was it enough, simply the process to discover them, or did you also feel compelled to further invest them into a greater story and expanding their meaning to you? Irene is correct, “Language itself is a sign”, a symbol for understanding and meaning beyond the obvious surface itself. Of course a sign can just be a sign! It all depends… Now your turn to share your poetic signs!
Thank you again to Irene for suggesting this prompt. The notion of “signs” is really a big wide open door of possibilities.
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!
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A tiny contribution: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/anti-climax/
This was a fruitful prompt for me. All of these haiku deal with “signs.” Just click on the links provided. I welcome your visit!
Brushing the Sky
Threading the Cloister
Savage Signs of Spring
Seven Signs of Spring
Seven Springs Ago
Yea, language (signifier) is always trying to express something (signified) isn’t it? Language is naming and more than that, it’s a kind of clay or play dough. And a poem, well, even better, tries to say something that’s the implied. I’ve used the voice of a caterpillar.
I feel myself changing
An attempt:
http://www.thehappyamateur.com/2012/03/search-poem.html
Anyone who has ever dipped a hook in water knows there are many signs and a multiplicity of contradiction in Fishing.
Signs of an Apocalypse Heaeding Our WAy? can be found at
Marianv.blog.co.uk.
Hunkering down – is this the new zeitgeist? I suppose for those who read the signs, but mostly people carry on like there’s no tomorrow. This is timely, Marian. (trouble commenting on your blog)
A bit of tea: Chakai
Here you go!
http://mareymercy.com/2012/03/18/poem-for-we-write-poems-prompt-98-signs/
Can we read the Signs?
-Nicole
So nice to see everybody out and poem-sharing on this fresh and bright Spring day! Smiles to you ALL! 🙂
http://wordrustling.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/marked/
Great prompt; thank you! Here’s mine:
Here’s mine: http://ablefires.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/make-for-me-a-sign/
This was a fun prompt. Mine is up.
Late posting, as I changed things up a bit…
Pamela
I count the Minutes and I Feel Dizzy
Ever since that second dosed Haibun prompt, the poem within prose interests me more and more. Thus what follows is…
signs
Here’s mine:
http://byclaireylove.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/we-write-poems-prompt-98-signs.html
here is my “SIGNS” poem…BURMA-SHAVE
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2012/03/burma-shave
that should be http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2012/03/burma-shave.html
Spoken like a true beatnik. Speaking as a youngster, that’s an interesting cultural note. (Blogger is truly impossible to crack these days.)