TOPers, where'd we go this week?
Wednesday, November 14, 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.
22 comments:
I think I anchor a lot of my poems to one place or another. This was a nice way for me to think about a place I like to be - although I don't get there often enough
My poetic thoughts are anchored in the UK at the moment, after a month long trip there. I have left my permalink, rather than my blog URL, I hope that's the right thing to do.
I actually did the prompt this week!
Hmm, the link didn't work...
Well, my writing went in different directions today so I've decided to share a poem from a couple of weeks ago that is a good example of place in my writing: Where Others Were
I chickened out last week, since I'm not especially good at writing evocative poems. But I'm glad to be back this week with a place-centric limerick. Thanks as always for the inspiration.
Mad Kane
i believe a number of you will have already seen this ,, as i combined it with a prompt this week for writers island......
I wrote about poetry and place with links to several poems here:
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2007/11/poetry-of-place.html
Excellent prompts. Thanks.
To Khotsofalang, the face of the hills
Khotsofalang is Sesotho for "Be Satisfied," and it is also the name of my older brother.
We all have dark places we go or get stuck in from time to time. This poem is about mine
Hi folks -- I've been reading a small handful of TOP poems recently, and this week decided to dive in. Thanks for being here.
So many places, so little time! Thanks for this site! And the prompts...
One Place in Time
Hello for the third time. I am still having a problem with posting a link.So I made my own:
my poem
I hope it works.
-bd
The lake next to my workplace provides me with endless opportunities for musing and rejuvenation of the spirit.
I like writing with it's feet on the ground. In an extended way, I'm moving right now, which makes writing about place that much more vital.
Two apologies for the two links that didn't work! I'm still figuring out how to leave a link to just that poem and not my blog in general. It took me a couple tries but finally I had success!
I'm still confused about how to leave a link in the comments, though. If I type in my URL, it doesn't get highlighted or underlined. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Linda: If you want to make your own link, this is how you format it:
[a href="full url goes here"]What you want the link to say goes here[/a]
Just replace the square brackets with angle brackets < >.
Late and totally un-placed, but it's all I've got this week :-)
Thanks, Tom! I'll practice that. I did try it last night but kept getting a message that said my tag was broken but I'm persistent! Ah, computers! Hate 'em. Love'em! ~Linda
Here's my offering for this week:
where i live
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