tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post779954686272396584..comments2024-03-28T21:51:42.221-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: Monday Poetry Stretch - Spinning TalesTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-76012269167806397922009-06-12T06:34:36.627-04:002009-06-12T06:34:36.627-04:00Here's the link to my cento for the Frog Princ...<a href="http://saralewisholmes.blogspot.com/2009/06/poetry-friday-and-we-leap-up-to-become.html" rel="nofollow">Here's the link to my cento for the Frog Princes.</a>Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-776854437632009452009-06-11T21:59:55.082-04:002009-06-11T21:59:55.082-04:00Okay, you got me, Tricia. Gotta play. For Poetry ...Okay, you got me, Tricia. Gotta play. For Poetry Friday tomorrow, I'm sharing a cento dedicated to the Frog Princes, made of lines from poems with the word LEAP in them. I'll come back and leave the link when it posts.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I'm going to marvel some more at the riches spilled here for all to find.Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-79989037208067872642009-06-11T13:40:27.173-04:002009-06-11T13:40:27.173-04:00These poems are all so much fun. What a great sub...These poems are all so much fun. What a great subject this week!Harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180730302829554796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-8381000933532415682009-06-11T11:29:10.022-04:002009-06-11T11:29:10.022-04:00Tricia,
I LOVE fairy tale poems! In fact, I wrote...Tricia,<br /><br />I LOVE fairy tale poems! In fact, I wrote an entire collection of them nearly 15 years ago. I made a few changes to one of the poems--and posted it this morning at Wild Rose Reader. The poem was written in the form of a Q&A.<br /><br />http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2009/06/original-fairy-tale-poem.html<br /><br />P.S. I love all the poems that people have submitted to Elaine Magliarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829330276633865868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-59413869460858873522009-06-11T07:10:02.120-04:002009-06-11T07:10:02.120-04:00Jane and Julie's poems are fabulous! The last ...Jane and Julie's poems are fabulous! The last four lines of both of those--so haunting!<br /><br />I have a poem up at http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/157162.html<br /><br />And--I want this book! Out of my price range, though:>)laurasalashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807781795919555208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-34789021248755009512009-06-11T02:44:59.100-04:002009-06-11T02:44:59.100-04:00Harriet--what? You are dissing your own poem? I wi...Harriet--what? You are dissing your own poem? I wish I had written it!<br /><br />Janejaneyolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396863710083180775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-80241169559903455362009-06-10T19:49:32.805-04:002009-06-10T19:49:32.805-04:00Gosh, I haven't seen this book! I'm hopin...Gosh, I haven't seen this book! I'm hoping it has a poem by Agha Shahid Ali about how wonderful it was to be warm inside the wolf!tesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14651702526007175517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-12030677718489787792009-06-10T18:45:12.930-04:002009-06-10T18:45:12.930-04:00These are so wonderful that I'm embarrassed to...These are so wonderful that I'm embarrassed to add mine, but <a href="http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/poetry-stretch/" rel="nofollow">here it is anyway</a>.Harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180730302829554796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-2546860465050128452009-06-09T12:19:30.400-04:002009-06-09T12:19:30.400-04:00This looks great. I'm adding it to the list. T...This looks great. I'm adding it to the list. Thanks!Jules at 7-Imphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439756778611468303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-89441760570684129142009-06-09T06:11:21.415-04:002009-06-09T06:11:21.415-04:00Mutual love fest in here:
"now the threes ar...Mutual love fest in here:<br /><br />"now the threes are doubles,<br />now the doubles, one;<br />now the world is spinning<br />‘til it comes undone"<br /><br /><br />carries a fairy tale sensibility.<br /><br />Thanks, Julie.<br /><br />Janejaneyolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396863710083180775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-82753722374747778452009-06-09T04:39:30.668-04:002009-06-09T04:39:30.668-04:00P.S. That was fun - thanks for the Stretch, Tricia...P.S. That was fun - thanks for the Stretch, Tricia. Jane, I love those lines: "I touch the now, the new, the never; / I live on chocolate and hopes."Julie https://www.blogger.com/profile/12811523890920763782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-88525339635604494892009-06-09T04:35:22.791-04:002009-06-09T04:35:22.791-04:00Three gold coins.
Three wishes wished.
Three magi...Three gold coins.<br />Three wishes wished. <br />Three magic seeds<br />and three magic fish. <br />Three bad guesses. <br />three real tears—<br />now the sea is salty <br />now the seeds are years, <br />now the threes are doubles, <br />now the doubles, one; <br />now the world is spinning<br />‘til it comes undone. <br />Now you are a changeling, <br />now you are a haunt, <br />now you'Julie https://www.blogger.com/profile/12811523890920763782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-3541657792968686282009-06-08T15:07:33.410-04:002009-06-08T15:07:33.410-04:00Hoodie
Not for me the soft grey hood,
flanneled, ...Hoodie<br /><br />Not for me the soft grey hood,<br />flanneled, drawstringed,to perfection.<br />Not for me the silken red hood<br />Sewn with motherly perfection.<br />a sop to wolves and woodcutters both;<br />Not for me these old school tropes,<br />I touch the now, the new, the never;<br />I live on chocolate and on hopes.<br /><br />I go camouflaged into the forest,<br />sit under a janeyolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396863710083180775noreply@blogger.com