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
ellenmillion

ellenmillion

December 17 2007, 22:21:18 UTC 13 years ago

birch trees
black and white

(two of my favorite things!)
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

December 17 2007, 23:13:38 UTC 13 years ago

Okay, I put these together with Avalon's "in the tree tops" and haikujaguar's "*little sigh* Write me something about the longing for cold in winter where the sun never wanes." The result is a prose poem, "Letter to a Friend in Florida," describing the delightful aspects of winter to someone who never sees them.

For those not familiar with the form, a prose poem is a literary chimera that doesn't have deliberate line breaks, but is crammed full of alliteration, vivid imagery, and other techniques more characteristic of poetry than prose. I'm not a fan of the form, and I almost never write these. (Congratulations on getting me into different territory. That's part of the point of a fishbowl.) Here's a page about prose poems:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5787
ellenmillion

ellenmillion

December 18 2007, 00:24:48 UTC 13 years ago

How awesome! I have a friend in Florida who's never seen snow - let me know if it ever gets printed somewhere, as I will HAVE to send it to her. :) :)

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