Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Poetry Fishbowl Open!

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's genre is nature. I am especially looking for:

* settings
* imagery
* themes
* events
* poetic forms

But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have the first edition of Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms which covers most common and many obscure forms.

I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. The rest will go into my archive for magazine submission.
Tags: fishbowl, nature, poetry, writing
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  • 26 comments
gumnut

gumnut

December 17 2007, 21:16:56 UTC 13 years ago

Okay, I have no idea what I'm doing but here are a few words/concepts that might start you off.

see

leaf

heal

Do whatever you like with them.

And Hi! I'm Nutty. I friended you earlier cos you looked like an interesting person :D Hope you don't mind.

Nutty
(before work, drat it)
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

December 17 2007, 21:41:23 UTC 13 years ago

For more information on what the Poetry Fishbowl is all about, go to the "Tags" box on the right side of the page and click "Fishbowl." A previous message has more details. The gist of it is, I'm writing poetry live and fishing for inspiration from friends.

I'm happy that you Friended me.

Using the words you gave, I wrote "Seeing the Leaves," a free verse poem about an herbalist walking in the woods.

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