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
haikujaguar

haikujaguar

December 17 2007, 23:01:03 UTC 13 years ago

Oh and not many people have left you animals. What about whooping cranes? Or (my perennial favorite), rays?
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

December 17 2007, 23:38:56 UTC 13 years ago

The whooping cranes and Moose's dragonfly suggested a wetland setting to me. "Swamps, Enlightened" is a free verse poem describing the environment in positive terms and refuting the negative stereotypes. (I know, some swamps *are* spooky, murky, and stinky -- but not all of them.)
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

December 18 2007, 03:15:18 UTC 13 years ago

Your manta rays have been combined with "darkness" from ivy_broom in the unrhymed quatrains of "flying underwater."

... um, I'm not sure I have the right kind of paper to scrap this one for you. I've got "Memories of Winter" and "Letter to a Friend in Florida" done though.

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