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The Poetry Challenge!
The Poetry Challenge!
Welcome, wonderful poets of the CB! With Bluebirds Regular Poetry thread, and Booksy's Poetry Contest, I was just thinking how much I like to click on those threads and just read through everyone's poetry that I haven't seen yet. But sometimes there is no new poetry to read, which is depressing. Thus The Poetry Challenge was born.
I'm sure you're all dying to know what this Poetry Challenge is. Hang in there a second, I'm getting to that. The basic idea of this is that we exercise our poem writing muscles, practice, improve, and at the end we have a beautiful Poetry Gallery to scroll through. It's a bit of a game, a bit of a prompt, and a bit of a competition all in one.
The rules are simple. We will write as much poetry as we can in the course of one week, and post it here. One poem a day for a week, although you can do more if you feel inspired. I will start by posting a theme, a prompt, or a technique, or any combination of those, and the rest of you will have to write a poem that corresponds with those things each day of the week. Then we can all vote for the most inspiring poem, and that person will become the next 'announcer'. The fun part is, the announcer can play too! Feel free to illustrate your poems and post those, too!
GUIDLINES:
No voting for yourself.
Please don't choose a category just because it's one you'd like (although don't choose a category you don't like either).
You can drop out at any time.
Be kind and respectful (obviously).
The categories must be pretty wide ranged since so many poems will be written from them.
Have fun!
~
To start off the first round, the theme is.............
SUMMER!
Whether you write about the beach, the pool, or the hot sun, summer is here and in full fling!
The optional prompt is: Warlike Arts (This is completely random. Jeopardy is on the Tv and I saw those two words and typed them down on the spot).
Nugget says gven. Given? I've given the gift of this wonderful Poetry Challenge to the world.
submitted by Leeli
(July 10, 2017 - 6:35 pm)
(July 10, 2017 - 6:35 pm)
Yeah, probably someone else should.
(October 3, 2017 - 9:53 am)
Can I join this? Just spent the last three days reading all of your amazing poetry. Keep it up!
(October 4, 2017 - 3:24 pm)
(October 9, 2017 - 3:43 pm)
I know I'm not supposed to do this, but I want to keep this thread alive!
So, the next prompt is: lines, planes, space, BUT NOT PROOFS. So I've been thinking a lot about Geometry lately. No, not my homework, just how...I don't know...interestingly poetic lines are. So write about something that reminds you of lines or planes. Maybe some things that go together but yet always remain parallel. Maybe something in Geometry that you think there is more to outside the facts. Maybe a perfect angle of you and something you find solace in.
And optional prompt:
"I will take my stand at my watchpost
and station myself on the tower." This comes from Habakkuk 2:1 if anyone is curious (it was just staring up at me from the floor). Quote this line in a poem or write a poem inspired by it.
(October 11, 2017 - 8:30 pm)
COOL! This is great. How about we start on Sunday?
(October 13, 2017 - 4:06 pm)
Thanks Rosebud! Here is my poem (I didn't put any thought into this beforehand, hope it turns out all right!):
Point of a triangle
Width of a square
Area of a cube
Coming from the math lair
The numbers are strange
The shapes are worse
I'm getting afraid
Of the mathematical curse
They try to attack me
I try to fight back
My teacher looks at me
While they begin to stack
"What's up?" he questions me
"Why are you staring into space?"
I come back to this world
Leaving that horrible place
I remember I love math
I shouldn't be afraid
And yet those horrible numbers
Refuse to fade
--
Okay then. I didn't realize my poem was going to be about attacking numbers. I love math, I wouldn't think I'd be afraid of it. I guess it's just because 'lair' rhymes with 'square'.
(October 13, 2017 - 2:20 pm)
linear
i said it was alright to talk-
but don't listen to what i say because
it's polite responses branded on my
tongue speaking,
not me
maybe that's just who i
am
a girl who speaks in tangled lines telephone
wires still sparking and that's
my own fault
but somehow it's hard to stop
listening through the upstairs door and
to people venting about other people venting
venting
leaving dark marks on my view of everyone
i should wear earplugs maybe or start
saying what i really mean
being linear is harder than it sounds
~~~
So if this poem makes no sense at all it's basically about people who say exactly what they mean and don't act fake ever, and how I'm trying to be more like that. I don't know, it's kinda dumb but I like it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(October 14, 2017 - 8:48 pm)
I love it, Bluebird!
(October 15, 2017 - 9:39 am)
I love that!
(October 15, 2017 - 3:06 pm)
So after I did Yoga the other day, I was staring at the ceiling for the longest time, and after a while I thought..."I should write a poem about something." That's usually how poetry is with me. No inspiration whatsoever. I just see everything in words, and words in everything.
ANGLE INEQUALITIES
I stare at the ceiling
at the white fan casting shadows
that stretch to the corners of my room
overlapping
growing more transparent
until they bloom outward like a flower
slowly expanding through all its stages of life
where shadow petals reach the corner
and droop down across purple walls
I feel the urge to break off the ends
and crush them between the pages
of a fat dictionary or Geometry book
just to say that a corner is not an angle
but a meeting place in a room’s shading
The world is so many colors
sometimes I forget that light
is a reflection
sailing across the waves of oblivion
morphing into dark lines
who wait for their lives to refract
(October 15, 2017 - 12:52 pm)
Well, I guess we already started. Okay! Well, I missed a day but I'll try to write a poem today.
(October 15, 2017 - 1:33 pm)
Same here! I've got to get out of my poetry slum!
(October 15, 2017 - 3:12 pm)
No! Don't die on me, thread! I vote for...agh, how do I decide? Hm... "bubblegum bubblegum, in a dish, how many pieces...." I vote for Kitten's poem!
BTW, Rose bud, you and I are completely different when it comes to poetry! I can't write poetry unless I have inspiration! If I try to write poetry otherwise, it just doesn't work. Sometimes I'll be falling asleep and a random verse of poetry will pop into my head, and I'll have to get up and write it down so I don't forget it.
(November 6, 2017 - 10:07 am)
Yes! If you reboot this, I'd totally do it!
(June 18, 2018 - 6:16 pm)
Yes! If you reboot this, I'd totally do it!
(June 18, 2018 - 6:16 pm)