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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

LIST POEM

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This week’s prompt is brought to us by Neil Reid:
List poems are a very elemental style of poem. (And I simply adore list poems!) They can be item by item very precise and succinct, or broad and more encased in other related poem text. That’s also part your choice. The list items might be tightly related, even sequential of a sort, or more generic and broad. Also your choice. They may be ruthlessly honest and introspective or even abstract, extending themselves into unknown territory (they can be truthful or fanciful as you choose). These are all possibilities of list poems – a simple concept, yet with unlimited chances to invoke or provoke new understandings and relationships. Play!
For this prompt let’s define the topic to be a list of “things you’re afraid of”, or alternately, “things you’d never do”. Of course if you’re just all inspired about another possible list, please, go ahead, have fun and share your result with us!


I USED MOVIE TITLES


SEVEN DAYS TO LIVE (2000)

Bloody Sunday, 2002
Stormy Monday, 1988
Tuesday, 2008
Ash Wednesday, 2002
Monster Thursday, 2008
Friday The Thirteenth, 1980
Saturday Night Fever 1977

19 comments:

  1. Thanks Ron; This prompt stumped me.

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  2. Though it stumped you, you carried it out with creativity and humor!

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  3. An interesting take —I agree with Mary

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  4. You only dance on Saturday? Now that's deprivation.

    Elizabeth

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  5. Stump to jump up and dance! Do you have a disco suit?

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  6. Thanks to:
    Mary; As you can see, I don't do Tuesdays.
    Linda; Wonder what I'll do on the eigth day...
    Elizabeth; I don't even dance Saturdays - that's me trying to walk in a straight line...!
    Brenda; I'm wearing it now.

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  7. Ha! Men tend to fear nothing! I can understand why you wrote Seven Days to live, and then proclaimed particular ones. What happened on Saturday Night Live in 1977? Was that when it started? Clever way of dealing with this!

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  8. Very clever use of the prompt Stan!
    Pamela

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  9. Interesting take! Some lists (days, months, etc) are premade for us by our larger civilization. I like the way you've taken one of these basic lists and shaped it with movie titles from relatively recent pop culture.

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  10. Thanks to:
    Diane; It's Fever, Diane. Things often start with a fever...
    Pamela; I wanted to make an obvious list, but couldn't quite get to grips with the prompt.
    Paul; The idea was to make a statement. I don't think I achieved the aim.

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  11. Thanks Gautami; I know what you mean...

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  12. Thanks Irene; For some, it's Monday - I handle Monday's OK, but by Tuesday, I've normally had enough...

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  13. Hey Stan, it's a list! That was the prompt. And every response is right, and right enough!

    And you can see the range of how people think about "lists". This fits right in with a measure of cleverness.

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  14. Thanks Neil; I think it's valid enough - just wanted to say more without straying from the straightforward list structure.

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  15. well stumped Stanskias I dance to it....thanks for this

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  16. Thanks Wayne; Seems it works after all.

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