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

Fishbowl!

Anonymous

December 17 2007, 21:29:13 UTC 13 years ago

ok Styles? a limerick! or a Quatrain!

Topics:
autumn leaves
waterfalls
*of interest* willow branches
falcon eggs
falconry

Settings:
Fairy rings
through the lens of a camera
in the tree tops
on a ledge of a high gorge

Hope you have an eventful fishbowl
Avalon(think I posted this early in another comment on the wrong page)
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Fishbowl!

ysabetwordsmith

December 17 2007, 21:50:36 UTC 13 years ago

Yay, you made it! Thanks for the big list.

So far I've written "what the willow seeks," a quatrain about willow branches trailing in the river.

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