4th Thursday! Patchwork Poems, Please!

Sorry for the delay! It's Thursday, and the 4th one, at that. From now until next Thursday, poets of all sizes & stripes are invited to post their patchwork poems, pieced together from this week's poetic offerings on summer.

Even if you didn't provdie a poem, please feel free to use the poems we ponied up to create your own cento.

Please note, Patchwork Poetry will be on a little vacation, so the next time to offer poems of your own for patchworking will be Thursday, July 17.

Hey! If you create a patchwork poem all on your own between now and then, go ahead and leave a link, right on this post!

Until Thursday, July 17, happy poem-ing!

Third Thursday! How About Some Summer Poems!

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!

2nd Thursday! Patchwork Poems, Please!

It's just a few days until Father's Day... time to show off your patchwork papa poems. Or maybe, despite the array of poems about dad offered this week, your patchwork poem has nothing to do with the man!

Nevertheless, from now until next Thursday, you are invited to post a link to your newly created patchwork poem. Even if you didn't pony up a poem to work with, you are humbly invited to use the poems provided and share your work with us!

Next Thursday, June 19, stop by and leave a link to a poem of your own for the next round of patchwork poetry.

Thanks for playing!

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!