It's hard to believe, but the third Thursday in June is here already! Since tomorrow is the first day of summer, how about some poems about summer? Poems already published by other poets, or poems of your own.
You know what to do: post the poems here until on or about next Tuesday. Then, next Thursday, you can post your newly created patchwork poems! Easy!
Even if you don't give us a poem to work with, please feel free to use the poems and create a cento. Sharing is good. Sharing what you've written is even better!
As always, please remember to credit your muses! And please try to use whole lines of poetry, not just phrases!
See you next Thursday!
Showing posts with label gather ye poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gather ye poems. Show all posts
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
1st Thursday! Pony Up Your Poems!
Happy June, everyone! I'm saving the new stuff for another day. I've got plans man... In the meantime, from now until Tuesday (or thereabouts) you are invited to post your poems about Fathers. Your poem or a poem by a famous/published/well-known poet. Our only caveat this time around is the subject: dad. Your dad, someone else's dad. Grandpa, great-grandpa. You as a father. (ooohh...great writing prompt for women, write about yourself as if you were a father...)
Stop by next Thursday and post the links to your newly created patchwork poems.
As always, though I am, at heart, a rebel, there are a few "rules" we abide by here at patchwork poetry:
* We use only FULL LINES of other people's poetry in the creation of patchwork poems. Phrases and favorite words don't count (at least not around these parts).
* We DO change a tense or a participle here and there. Add an S, remove an -ED, minor stuff like that. The patchwork purist takes lines JUST AS THEY ARE. That is the challenge! That's why we're here. (Or, at least, that's why I started this thing...)
* We ALWAYS, ALWAYS credit our muses!
Thanks for poeming with me!
Stop by next Thursday and post the links to your newly created patchwork poems.
As always, though I am, at heart, a rebel, there are a few "rules" we abide by here at patchwork poetry:
* We use only FULL LINES of other people's poetry in the creation of patchwork poems. Phrases and favorite words don't count (at least not around these parts).
* We DO change a tense or a participle here and there. Add an S, remove an -ED, minor stuff like that. The patchwork purist takes lines JUST AS THEY ARE. That is the challenge! That's why we're here. (Or, at least, that's why I started this thing...)
* We ALWAYS, ALWAYS credit our muses!
Thanks for poeming with me!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
This Week, a Potluck...Bring a Dish to Share
Third Thursday, folks! Time to pony up your poems. To switch things up a little, let's try offering up poems by other, published poets. Any poet you please. And how about if we try a theme? How about food poems? Cooking food, growing food, eating food...anything to do with food.
And while we're shaking the tree, why not invite a friend to join us this week? Anyone who brings along a new pal wins a steaming hot casserole. Just kidding of course, how would you mail a casserole?
So, all this week, post liks to your favorite food poems. Come back next Thursday and post links to your newly created patchwork poems!
And while we're shaking the tree, why not invite a friend to join us this week? Anyone who brings along a new pal wins a steaming hot casserole. Just kidding of course, how would you mail a casserole?
So, all this week, post liks to your favorite food poems. Come back next Thursday and post links to your newly created patchwork poems!
Thursday, May 1, 2008
1st Thursday! Pony Up Your Poems!
Hi all! I am posting this week's call for poems a bit early, as I will be traveling Wednesday and waiting in the hospital while my father has surgery on Thursday.
From now until next Thursday, you are invited to post your poems for other poets' use. Thursday, May 7th, come back and post your newly created patchwork poems.
Remember, we try to stay as true to the cento, or patchwork form, as possible. Please try to use whole lines. Our aim here is not to inspire trains of thought, but to rearrange the trains our fellow poets have already hitched. How's that for a convoluted metaphor?
Since this is a couple days early, please be sure, if you haven't already, to check the post below for links to everyone's patchwork poems on display this week.
Happy writing!
From now until next Thursday, you are invited to post your poems for other poets' use. Thursday, May 7th, come back and post your newly created patchwork poems.
Remember, we try to stay as true to the cento, or patchwork form, as possible. Please try to use whole lines. Our aim here is not to inspire trains of thought, but to rearrange the trains our fellow poets have already hitched. How's that for a convoluted metaphor?
Since this is a couple days early, please be sure, if you haven't already, to check the post below for links to everyone's patchwork poems on display this week.
Happy writing!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
3rd Thursday! Pony Up Your Poems!
Happy 3rd Thursday of National Poetry Month! Today is the day we offer up our own poems for use in next week's patchwork poem round. All week, from today until next Tuesday, you are invited to post a link to the poem of your choice for use in creating a brand new cento, or patchwork poem.
Today is also National Poem in Your Pocket Day! If you choose to participate in this very cool "holiday," why not post a link to the poem you plan on carrying around all day! Are you just going to carry it around, your secret poem? Share it with friends and family? Perhaps stand on a street corner and recite it for passers-by? Maybe you're going to make copies and pass it out for other people to carry around in their pockets? Whatever you do, let us know!
Now, get out there and share the poetry!
Today is also National Poem in Your Pocket Day! If you choose to participate in this very cool "holiday," why not post a link to the poem you plan on carrying around all day! Are you just going to carry it around, your secret poem? Share it with friends and family? Perhaps stand on a street corner and recite it for passers-by? Maybe you're going to make copies and pass it out for other people to carry around in their pockets? Whatever you do, let us know!
Now, get out there and share the poetry!
Thursday, April 3, 2008
1st Thursday! Pony Up Your Poems!
Happy National Poetry Month! It's the first week of the month, so that means it's time to pony up your poems for the next round of patchwork poems. No restrictions this week! Any poem will do! If you're participating in 30 poems in 30 days, you should have a lot to choose from!
Please be sure to credit your muse. Please try to use whole lines of poetry as you stitch and knit your new patchwork poem together. Please tell your friends! Please forgive me, your host, for not participating in a few weeks. I have no excuse and only hope my patchwork muse will come down from the top of the giant silver maple in my backyard and play nice this week.
See you here one week from today to post links to your newly crafted poems!
Please be sure to credit your muse. Please try to use whole lines of poetry as you stitch and knit your new patchwork poem together. Please tell your friends! Please forgive me, your host, for not participating in a few weeks. I have no excuse and only hope my patchwork muse will come down from the top of the giant silver maple in my backyard and play nice this week.
See you here one week from today to post links to your newly crafted poems!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
3rd Thursday, Give Us Your Poems!
It's the 3rd Thursday of March, first day of Spring 2008 in the US, time to pony up your poems for our next round of patchwork poems!
Last week I mentioned thinking green. Since we had such a wonderful collection of favorite poet poems last time, my plan was to request nature poems from our favorite poets. I didn't even know that tomorrow is World Poetry Day, a celebration of sorts, in anticipation of Earth Day (check it via the link!). Gotta love synchronicity!
So, this week's call for poems is not only nature inspired, but environmentally themed. From now until next Tuesday, March 25, you can place links to your favorite "green" poems. Please be sure that the poems are already in the public domain. We don't want any copyright police beating our doors down!
Have fun!
Last week I mentioned thinking green. Since we had such a wonderful collection of favorite poet poems last time, my plan was to request nature poems from our favorite poets. I didn't even know that tomorrow is World Poetry Day, a celebration of sorts, in anticipation of Earth Day (check it via the link!). Gotta love synchronicity!
So, this week's call for poems is not only nature inspired, but environmentally themed. From now until next Tuesday, March 25, you can place links to your favorite "green" poems. Please be sure that the poems are already in the public domain. We don't want any copyright police beating our doors down!
Have fun!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
gather ye poems
Hello, hello everyone! It's Thursday. Time to pony up your poems! If you would like to participate in next week's patchwork poetry party, simply provide a link to one of your own poems in this post's comments section.
Last week we had a lively discussion of patchwork poetry, writing exercises, and the like. If you missed it, check it out in the previous post's comments.
As a reminder, I started this blog to experiment with the patchwork poem, or cento--a poem created by weaving together the lines of other poets' poems. That is, whole lines, not pieces, fragments, or phrases. While that method is perfectly fine as inspiration, I use it myself, it is not my aim here at patchwork poetry. I don't mean to offend or turn anyone away, but I am really interested in seeing what happens when we all do basically the same thing with other people's poems. A tense change or modifier dropped is ok, but, for the purposes of patchwork poetry, let's stick to whole lines. Thanks!
Ahem, here's the "copyright" mumbo jumbo...By leaving a link, you agree to allow our collective of poets use your lines in a brand new poem. One time rights, of course. And the patchwork poetry collective, a groovy bunch of like-minded souls in pursuit of the perfect word, do hereby promise on pain of left & right hand removal, to never publish or pass of as wholly their own, the poems created from other people's poems. In other words, please remember to credit your muses!
Next week, stop by and post a link to your newly created patchwork poem. Happy poem-ing!
Last week we had a lively discussion of patchwork poetry, writing exercises, and the like. If you missed it, check it out in the previous post's comments.
As a reminder, I started this blog to experiment with the patchwork poem, or cento--a poem created by weaving together the lines of other poets' poems. That is, whole lines, not pieces, fragments, or phrases. While that method is perfectly fine as inspiration, I use it myself, it is not my aim here at patchwork poetry. I don't mean to offend or turn anyone away, but I am really interested in seeing what happens when we all do basically the same thing with other people's poems. A tense change or modifier dropped is ok, but, for the purposes of patchwork poetry, let's stick to whole lines. Thanks!
Ahem, here's the "copyright" mumbo jumbo...By leaving a link, you agree to allow our collective of poets use your lines in a brand new poem. One time rights, of course. And the patchwork poetry collective, a groovy bunch of like-minded souls in pursuit of the perfect word, do hereby promise on pain of left & right hand removal, to never publish or pass of as wholly their own, the poems created from other people's poems. In other words, please remember to credit your muses!
Next week, stop by and post a link to your newly created patchwork poem. Happy poem-ing!
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