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 PARTITIONS.
PARTITIONS
partitions
they place us
partitions
they alienate us
partitions
they restrain us
partitions
they threaten us
partitions
they inhibit us
partitions
they truncate us
partitions
they invalidate us
partitions
they obscure us
partitions
they nullify us
partitions
they suffocate us
partitions
My response, PARTITIONS was randomly selected by taking the first word of the third line of Chapter 8 of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (iBooks edition). What will your take on the keyword PARTITIONS 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 101 Badge above.
well done!
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Thank you!
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Great choice of vocabulary! I really like how you added a visual element to your poetry.
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Thank you Angie Lin, I am glad you enjoyed this! And thank you for your contribution!
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No problem at all! Thanks for hosting. ✪
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Nice…when I first read it in the reader I did not pick up o the visual until I read Angies’ comment so I came over to the original – very nice. Here are my scratchings http://wp.me/p3EbHY-bd 🙂
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Thank you Heid, I am glad you liked it and that you came over to see the original 🙂 and thank you also for contributing!
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Fantastic poem, an interesting hybrid of an acrostic poem too! Here is my contribution: https://literaryfuzz.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/poetry-101-rehab-partitions/
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Thank you Jordan and for your welcome contribution!
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Hello 🙂 here’s my poem http://876lover.com/2015/08/03/solitaire/
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Thank you for bringing another great contribution!
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Hi everyone here is my poem! https://kaitlynfranzone.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/monday-poetry/
Hope you enjoy!
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Excellent, thank you for contributing some wise thoughts also!
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I LOVE this–both your poem, and the prompt. Looking forward to working on it later–thanks, Valida
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I just realized/noticed the vertical word partitions in red…wow!
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Thank you for noticing that! 🙂
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I’m wondering if you consciously wrote it that way, or if it was just a wonderful fluke? (Hope my question is not impertinent…)
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Not
importantimpertinent at all…I wrote the poem first, in a random way, not really knowing where it would go then as I edited it I realised it would be fun to use the acrostic so played around with the words to fit!LikeLike
Great work, definitely impressed me (and the word I used was “impertinent”–I was concerned my question could offend).
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Yes, I saw the word correctly but when replying my spellchecker overrode me and I didn’t notice, and no offence at all, that’s what the rehab is all about! Thanks again!
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Oh good! That’s why I don’t use spellchecker–it’s crazier than I am!!
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They can be very annoying – and embarrasing!
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And amusing sometimes! Working on “partitions”–it’s gone rather “stream of consciousness”, perhaps due to the late hour…
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Look forward to reading it in due course!
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Probably up tomorrow–hope you’ll find it worthy…it doesn’t have a cool acrostic within 😦
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Thank you! Look forward to seeing what you come up with…
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We’ll see what results…
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Here we go:
https://wealthofruins.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/partitions-poetry-101-rehab/
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This really is excellent and full of layers and meanings that requires more than one read! And thank you for your kind words and for supporting the rehab clinic!
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Ohhh, bless your heart–I’m glad you were pleased with the piece, as I had doubts at the start. Sometimes we just have to stick with something–not give up–and it will all fall into “not half-bad” place. Thanks for the opportunity to write for “Rehab”!
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My pleasure and so happy you are enjoying the rehab!
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Yes Sir–good exercise, and fun.
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Loving that partition running straight through, very clever writing 🙂
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Thank you Ginni! 🙂
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Genius, sheer genius!
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Thank you Lois, I’m really enjoying my time as the Locum here at the clinic!
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Thank you Lois, I’m really enjoying my time as the Locum here at the clinic!
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I love the layout of yours, very clever and I love the twist on the acrostic.
Here are my mutterings for the week: https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/poetry-101-rehab-partitions/
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Thank you and for another great contribution!
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Here is my, perhaps overly disturbing, take on this prompt https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/paraklausithyron-poetry-rehab-101-partition/
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A very powerful contribution to the clinic this week, your translation project is fascinating and as you say, a little disturbing, but then art often is and part of the role of art is I believe to disturb / disrupt?
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Here is my little poem for this week :
https://schattenengel.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/partition/
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Another excellent contribution and very thought provoking…
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I love how you used the word to ponder the differents aspects.
The choice of words adds a lot of strength to your lines 🙂
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Thank you, I am delighted that you enjoyed it!
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This is wonderful! It is packed full with challenging and provocative ideas, bravo! Hope you return to Poetry 101 Rehab soon!
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This week I have gone with an older poem (late 1990s or early 2000s), given that boundaries are a type of partitions: Boundaries of Fear – http://quiltedpoetry.net/2015/08/08/boundary-of-fear/
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This is a very moving and painful poem Liz, thank you for bringing it to the rehab…
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You’re welcome, Andy.
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A very moving contribution to the rehab, thank you…
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Phew, finally getting my entry in : https://silvertongue133.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/6-poetry-101-rehab-partition/
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A very moving contribution to the rehab, thank you…
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