Prompt #138 It’s Post Your Poems Day!
The memoir project
We Write Poems:
Write a poem about how the past is reinvented through memory, through writing. Granted, observation of that inward landscape is something akin to the fox guarding the hen house. How do you notice when history becomes story, becomes illuminated by embellishment or simple editing? Is simple honest “observation” so simple a task as we might think? Attentiveness? Practice? How much are we willing not to be the “heros” of our personal narratives? How much do we prefer our images to our reality? Plenty of fertile ground here to consider and investigate.
Hope a few windows got nudged more open for you.
Time now to share your poems and experience with us. And with our appreciation for your playing along. Remember please, there’s never one right poem in response to a prompt – just like real life! Your words are welcome here.
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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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I don’t know if I have interpreted the prompt correctly.
This one stumped me a bit, but it finally came together.
Elizabeth
I am with Viv but offering all the same.
Here’s mine. http://miskmask.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/my-aunt-suzy-and-my-beagle/
You know you’re a poem addict when the first thing you do coming home is to post your poem instead of checking your work email. 🙂 So glad to see everyone, I’ll get to reading sooner or later.
you feel it as a calling of those infinite stars
Cheating a bit. Using the same poem I posted for this weeks Daily Post Poetry Challenge.
http://wp.me/pvNyA-2iX
My poem “Forty Years is not too long a time…” can be found at MarianV.blog.co.uk
I’m still playing with the concept, but I do have something
http://wp.me/p32h8v-1s
This poem was not about my own memories…I wonder what Rizana Nafeek might write about her own?
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2013/01/11/ballpoint-pens-for-rizana-nafeek/
-Nicole
This prompt made me realize how often I edit the past. 🙂
http://www.1lostbeat.blogspot.com/2013/01/greener-memories.html
I suppose this is more of an anti-memoir, about effacing the artifacts of the past, but better than nothing: David
Waiting until the last minute this time (perhaps again)…I chose to write for someone else…
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2013/01/wwp-138-biographic.html
http://lornacahall.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-phone-call.html
I love this focus – it is so important. This poem I’ve put on my blog is from a few years ago but I think it works well.
This was an interesting project…I have worked on memoirs for a while…
and realize editing this poem I wrote a few years ago, that I can see “mother” things
that as a child were annoying, but actually for learning how to do certain things correctly
not because she was “weird”☺
http://siggiofmaine.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/we-write-poems…memoir-project/
I tried the link…it didn’t work…my blog site is
http://www.siggiofmaine.wordpress.com
i hope this qualifies ~
http://myheartslovesongs.com/2013/01/14/unfamiliar/
here is mine
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2013/01/FORGOTTEN MEMORIES.html
that should be
http://waynepitchko.blogspot.com/2013/01/forgotten-memories.html
I hope this works…last time I had a complaint that it didn’t work…If it doesn’t I don’t know how to fix it…I’m sorry for any trouble it may cause. It is the second poem down til sometime later today January 24.
http://siggiofmaine.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/we-write-poems…ent-unexpected/
I didn’t get right to the poem, but put “unexpected” in the search box and it came right up as the first post.
sorry for the inconvenience.