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 DEADLINE.
DEADLINE
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
must work, must work
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
can’t slack, can’t slack
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
keep typing, keep typing
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
can’t think, can’t think
deadline
no time, no time
deadline
can’t sleep, can’t sleep
deadline
no time, no time
dead____________
My response, DEADLINE was inspired by the feelings we can all too easily endure when working up against a deadline, so it’s a very personal, blunt, take on this week’s prompt. What will your take on the keyword DEADLINE be? Blog about it in a poetry post and share your link in the comments section of this post and by clicking on the Poetry 1o1 Badge above.
andy townend 
You (dead)lines are making me feel dead… And scared. Because DEADLINE.
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Fear not, for every deadline, there is a solution.
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That gave me a wry chuckle…thank you.Now I have to run, I’ve got a deadline!
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Thank you 🙂
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Fantastic poem, deadlines are a blessing and a curse. Here is my response https://literaryfuzz.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/poetry-101-rehab-deadline/
Sorry I’ve been away for so long! 🙂
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Thank you, and welcome back to the rehab!
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Hey 🙂 Here’s my poem:
https://876lover.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/story-of-my-life/
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Thank yo, love the rhythm!
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How do you do that?! I am have a really (really) crappy day, Andy. But I read you poem and just smiled at that last line. Oh, so good! The rehab works even on those not in the program! Brilliant. Thank you.
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Wow Lois, that is amazing, sad that you had a bad day though and thank you…perhaps you will try a poem? 🙂
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Uh, no. I will very happily leave that to you.
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Oh well Lois, worth checking! 😉
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Ah I love the line changing its form, definitely caused a grin 😀
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Thank you Ginni!
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I read an article on the meanings and applications of the word “deadline” in yesterday’s NY Times, and that informed my poem, Not a Movable Feast – http://wp.me/p5BCD4-ae – I continue to be concerned about environmental issues and the seeming inability to not just set goals, but to take steps to achieve any of them.
I quite like your poem, Andy. Illustrative of the feelings involved. While I enjoyed deadlines when I was younger–15+ years working with computers in banking and insurance, I have rediscovered my creativity in less pressured, more chaotic surroundings. I diligently avoid pressure and actual deadlines.
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Thank you Liz, both for your kind comments but mostly for your two great poems, especially the first, short, one, which conveys so much feeling in so few words, and the thinking behind the second..
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I have just posted my own humble litte contribution to this prompt challenge: https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/poetry-rehab-101-deadline-a-little-metaphysical-haiku/
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That is what I call a deadline! Thank you for attending the clinic once more 🙂
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‘Clinic’ might be an interesting prompt for the weeks to come.
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Now there’s a thought for a future post perhaps!
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Dare I raise the name of Foucault and the medicalization/biopolitics of contemporary creativity: ‘rehab’, ‘clinic’….
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Wow, a philosophical angle, will need to go and read more…
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Great poem. It reminded me of the stress I used to feel when essays were tapping me on the shoulder and looking at their watches.
Here is my effort: https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/poetry-101-rehab-deadline/
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I love this and the repetitive structure that suggests we never meet deadlines, there is always another to confront us, is very clever! Thank you for contributing to the rehab clinic once more!
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oh, gosh, this is what is going on through my mind these past few days… deadline, dealine, slacker, slacker lol 🙂 love it, Andy!! but I hope you meet your dealines (me too… )… 🙂
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Thank you, we can only try! 😉
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Thanks for the prompt and your take on it from which I have taken as inspiration for mine http://wp.me/p3EbHY-b1 🙂
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An excellent contribution to the prompt, especially that last line! And the handwritten version is just awesome!
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Damn, I just missed the deadline for this prompt. Well, at least I wrote something – https://epicbloggingnow.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/deadline/
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In this case, thankfully, the deadline doesn’t matter, thank you for this breathless contribution to the rehab!
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