So! Let's see what people managed to evoke:
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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What is Totally Optional Prompts?
Totally Optional Prompts is a community of people who gather to share poetry. We provide weekly prompts which are
Totally Optional
read each other's offerings, and generally have a good time.
Totally Optional
read each other's offerings, and generally have a good time.
Want to participate?
Every Saturday evening, we'll post a prompt here. Then you post a poem on your blog. Then Thursday morning, come back here and find the Thursday post. Leave the PERMALINK (that is, the link to just that post, not the link to your blog itself) in the Linky widget.
Remember, prompts are Totally Optional-- if this week's prompt doesn't turn your crank, then feel free to post something else entirely.
Remember, prompts are Totally Optional-- if this week's prompt doesn't turn your crank, then feel free to post something else entirely.
Want to suggest a prompt?
Leave a comment on one of the Saturday evening posts suggesting the prompt. If you leave it on one of the Thursday posts, we may not see it.
Disclaimer
If you are posting a poem by someone else, please obtain that person's permission or make sure it's in the public domain.
TOP participant collections!
Mike McCulley of Word Anger: "Word Anger" and "Loose Thoughts"
sbpoet (Sharon Brogan) of Watermark: Oratory and small poems
Tiel Aisha Ansari of Knocking From Inside: "Knocking From Inside"
Sue Turner of Tumblewords: "North of Summer"
sbpoet (Sharon Brogan) of Watermark: Oratory and small poems
Tiel Aisha Ansari of Knocking From Inside: "Knocking From Inside"
Sue Turner of Tumblewords: "North of Summer"
Have a poetry collection?
Do you have a poetry collection available? We'll post it here. Email your name, the title of your collection and the URL where people can get it to tielansari AT gmail DOT com. TOP participants only, please.
15 comments:
A snapshot poem, not in response to this week's prompt, but a kind of Poetic Statement.
I'm in. Nice prompt, Tiel!
This poem is evocative, I think. The subject evoked a response all these many years ago, which is why my muse dug it up out of the recesses. Comments/critique welcome! Skin and Ribs Dog
I just can't seem to do this right.
my poem
Hope I did it right.
my other poem
This prompt made me think a lot. I had trouble with coming at a poem by naming where I was going first. I ended up with a piece I think is evocative, but I'm going to have to spend some more time with the idea of what I am trying to accomplish with some of my poems - with their intent.
Of course, I find most of my pieces only reveal their intent, their direction once they are nearly finished.
My poem isn't evocative. It's not even a poem, it's another offer for postcard-poetry written around the theme of eating.
I am traveling and finding internet connections difficult. So please excuse my belated reading of yall (in deference to my Texas trip!)
I don't know if this poem is evocative, but it's the only one I've had time to write this week...thanks for letting me participate!
This one is not a poem, but a photo essay about writing poems. Another Poetic Statement.
The one about the house! animus semper manendi
This was a very interesting prompt. I didn't end up writing a poem that directly mirrored the emotions of the prompt poems, but wrote one instead that is intended to evoke a different, but quite specific, feeling: On Waking
Finally got mine posted. Every Tuesday and Thursday I make my kids do journal writing. I give them a prompt, put some instrumental music on, and we write. Today I "cheated" by writing this poem instead of follwing the prompt.
What I came up with is a total departure from my usual style. It was an idea that popped into my mind just as I was falling asleep last night so I thought I'd go with it.
I like this autolink feature. I suggest that Firefox user download the Cooliris extension. Together with the list of links it is easy to review the poems without having to open each file. :-)
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