Prompt#18: It’s Post Your Poems Day!
September 8, 2010
Need to Know Basis
Was this prompt deceptively simple or challenging for you? Was it easy or not to state three important attributes of yourself? And what about that “other” person or persons or group? Stick to basics or perhaps sought a playful response? The most simple questions can sometimes be the most difficult to address. Don’t even have a poem yet? Perhaps read a few of other’s work, 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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We Write Poems 
I’ve missed you all. Didn’t truly write to prompt, but this little prose bit is related conceptually:
“Convocation Bingo“
Paul, if that’s not writing to prompt, then carry on doing it: a fantastic post: what an interesting life you are having. I echo whoever it was who suggested you write your memoirs – they’d knock Tony Blair’s off the top spot (thank goodness).
Wonderful Paul. Viv is perfectly correct! And thanks so much.
I hemmed then hawed, stalled some more, threw the first away, then wrote this tonight. A sort of conversation mixed of the two lists.
Thimble and needle
Hrmph, I can no longer thread a needle easily. I am not Jack and I am not nimble.
I might disagree. Besides, I’m the thimble, not the needle myself.
This was a difficult prompt. What I came up with was:
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2010/09/someday.html
There is such kindness in your statement of mortality and observation that we move beyond ego’s ambition and gather humility. Admire how much wisely shared in two brief stanzas.
I managed a short prose piece too:
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/09/think-twice.html
Hello Yorkshireman, do you have a tremendous yearning to be young again?
Oh no, Irene. Couldn’t do it all again!
Me neither! 🙂
Tersely stated. Like the commence with disarming physical details but the speaker warning there is a potential to be bitten, and the cautionary note to listener to be diplomatically charitable. There is, for me, an intriguing irony.
You are quite safe, the only thing to be bitten is my tongue! But I rely on a charitable nature!
Hello wonderful peeps. I haven’t written anything. Get cracking (me).
I have faith in you, Irene…You have too much to offer to ever silence yourself, I would hope,
Elizabeth
You just wrote items one and two.
I sense a poem
Not an easy prompt. Here is mine.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/09/there-is-me-then-there-is-you-we-write.html
Statement of the posture reminded me of blowhards have encountered, the waking of the bear in the den whose posturing is intimidating until your apt observation that the pompousness is not real in threat – just boring. The phrase ‘abrasions on the soul’ really stung for reminded of how verbal violence can deeply harm.
I’m always amazed by where I end up.
http://word-painting.blogspot.com/2010/09/richard-halliburtons-book-of-marvels.html
I don’t know what I did. It simply wrote itself:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/09/commas-in-pauses.html
This is as you state, poetry emerging from nowhere and asking for a voice. Although the speaker of this poem insists it is ‘not about me’ so much information about attitude, behaviour is conveyed with deft selection of words, images. Breath-taking final line.
Almost scrapped it, but decided I was too lazy to start over
I couldn’t convince myself to take me seriously
do you need to know this?
Not really satisfied with mine. Oh well. A Few Too Many
Oh dear, slapped wrist, Viv. I put my link in the wrong place:
and now I’m off to read all your lovely poetry.
Thanks Viv for re-linking your poem over here. What you shared and wrote is just too good to be missed!
There isn’t much to say
http://wysfool.blogspot.com/2010/09/dream.html
Thanks to both your faith Elizabeth and Barbara, I stayed up late and wrote something prompty. It’s a work day tomorrow but I’ll visit soon enough.
Tell me about yourself, Delores
Here’s mine, with a picture of a celebrity!
http://troublebeingstrong.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-i-want-people-to-know.html
http://Marianv.blog.co.uk
There is a poem there. Really
You & Me
not exactly to prompt, but here’s mine:
I was the one (you won’t remember me)
Here is my poem – http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2010/09/09/inured/
Hope my comment made it through (no process acknowledgment).
Stunning images. Vibrant! Emotionally too.
Hello, fellow poets! I’m happy to find We Write Poems thriving, I’ve been away for a while but look forward to continue on this side of the prompts for the time being. Here’s mine for this prompt: Cravings
Hello/Good Morning, 3 about Me at
http://happyflowerwordzoo002.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/3-things-about-me-poem-from-we-write-poems-prompt-18/
Mr Walker’s poem.
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