Do you miss the Writing 201 Poetry course by the Daily Post? Then join this blogging challenge, Poetry 101 Rehab, that will provide your poetry fix!
How does it work?
For several weeks now, each Monday at 01:00 pm UTC, Mara Eastern has published a poetry prompt along with her response to it, you can see them all here. On 30 June, Mara announced that she is taking a blogging hiatus this Summer to focus on her dissertation. I am serving as locum “poet in residence” at the clinic until her return – and hope that I don’t lose any of her patients! I will continue to publish a weekly prompt exactly as before.
You are invited to answer the prompt, twist it or ignore it; write a poem of your own or share a poem by another author.
I would love to hear about your inspiration, your creative process or other poetry related thoughts, but this is no way obligatory. Nothing is obligatory in this challenge, the idea is to get together, talk poetry and have fun!
How can you take part?
Anyone can participate, anytime you want. Publish your poetry post and add a link to it by clicking on the Poetry 101 Rehab badge below or share your link in a comment. Use the tag Poetry 101 Rehab, so we can find each other in the Reader.
I will act as your host, and I’ll be here for you to reply to your comments, read your poetry, like and comment. While this post is the starting point for the challenge, do visit fellow poets in the link-up and chat to them on their blogs!
This week’s prompt is STACK
stack two lanes deep stack two lanes deep, nose to tail stack two lanes deep, nose to tail, steaming and fuming stack so far they travelled stack so far they travelled, arm in arm stack so far they travelled, arm in arm, fearing and hoping stack not what they were told, before the stack
My interpretation, STACK, was inspired by a recent road trip to the United Kingdom through the Eurotunnel, disrupted recently by tension surrounding action taken by migrants in France seeking to gain access to the United Kingdom by any means. What will your take on the keyword STACK be? Blog about it in a poetry post and share your link in the comments section of my post and by clicking on the Poetry 1o1 Badge above.
Your poem is awesome, for a lack of a better word. It’s almost mysterious in a way, and the imagery is wow. ✪
Here’s mine this week, not nearly as eloquent, but an attempt:
https://muddiedthoughts.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/stack-pancake/
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Thank you Angie and that you for your painful but insightful contribution this week!
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You’re welcome! ✪
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ah i thought this photograph looked familiar for some reason, traffic jams!!! Oh my that one looks terrible, great poetry to go with, a hard one to do! Bravo!
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Thank you Justine…I seem to have spent a lifetime in my car in the last couple of weeks…..but spare a thought for those migrants, whatever one might feel about their actions, would be want to be in their shoes?
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gawds no, its awful, appalling that this isnt stopped, desperation makes people make unwise choices or perhaps they have no choice x
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Seeing these things first hand makes you think…
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very true 😦
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Often one’s reading material colors one’s take on a poetry prompt. I have gone with “stacked” rather than “stack” to write a poem about the end of human history: http://wp.me/p5BCD4-9X by way of cascading climate change. Which is surely hastened by the exhaust fumes from your stack of trucks! 🙂
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A stark and powerful poem Liz, thank you for staying with the clinic despite the fumes!
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So pleased that you like the poem, Andy. … And my filtered-air room seems to be keeping the highway’s fumes away from me. 😀
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I need a room like that *sneezes* 🙂
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It does help, especially for sleeping. Best wishes with that!
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Fantastic poem! Loved the form, the spacing – the imagery, dramatic B/W of the trucks stuck in “operation stack.” And the immigrants, stacked deep on the roadsides, looking for a better life. I can see it all. Well and wonderfully done.
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Thank you and more so because you seem to have totally understood my point!
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Here’s my poem for this week, 🙂
https://876lover.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/stacks-on-stacks-on-stacks/
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A great poem. Your words are as clear as hidden – that’s really fascinating.
I am waiting to let the right words get to me for my idea now – that may take a while….
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Thank you, and thank you for staying with he clinic whilst the doctor is away! Take all the time you need, I am sure it will be worth it!
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Here Andy my thoughts this week:
http://summerstommy.com/2015/07/14/poetry-101-rehab-stacked/
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Excellent! This was so dark i mixed up your entry with my other project (dark side thursday) note to self “stop drinking too much belgian beer when writing! Thanks for contributing again!
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My pleasure😀
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Nice take on the prompt, my poem is https://shilparya.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/stacking-n-sorting/
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Thank you and also for such a delightful contribution!
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I just posted my take on this prompt https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/poetry-rehab-stack/
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What a great contribution to the rehab, and am humbled that my prompt gave you the inspiration!
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A cool, considered and challenging contribution to the clinic!
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Hey! Here is my offering for the week. I’ve come to the conclusion that I own secretly-possessed stationery, because once again the words ran away with me. https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/poetry-101-rehab-stack/
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This is quite an expansive canvas on which you paint for the rehab!
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Ok, Andy! I’m a little late this week – but here goes! My take on “Stack” was the obvious choice for me: A librarian’s fantasy life among the stacks! 🙂 Enjoy (I hope!)
http://motherhendiaries.com/2015/07/15/the-librarian-a-sonnet/
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An excellent contribution, and it’s never too late, thanks for sticking with the rehab!
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Y thanks to you fpr the great prompt! Really set the wheels spinning…
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I am finished! I was so incredibly stuck with just two out of all the lines :O
So here is my little poem:
https://schattenengel.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/stack/
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An excellent, if rather sad contribution, thank you for staying with the clinic!
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A wee bit ‘late’ but well you know what they say 🙂 http://wp.me/s3EbHY-stack cheers Heid
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Better late then never indeed, thank for your short and dark contribution!
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My interpretation on stacks : https://epicbloggingnow.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/stack/
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I love the structure in this one which together with the subject makes it very powerful!
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