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 DECISIONS.
DECISIONS
DecisionsExcisionsCollisionsIllusionsSensationsInterruptionsOmissionsNegations
Silence
My (very brief) response, DECISIONS was jotted down in a moment of decision. What will your take on the keyword DECISIONS 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.
nice. i like the layout too.
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Thank you 🙂
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Oooh, I love what you did with Decisions, Andy–that’s the way it so often feels, the process of making a decision, or multiple ones.
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Thank you, I have a lot to learn…
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I guess the requirement and opportunity to learn never ends…
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Never….
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I like the simplicity and sophistication of the words. That’s what goes to my mind when in this process.
Well done! As always.
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Thank you Lucile, this one was rather rushed…
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In the rush we don’t use censorship. So?
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Wise as always Lucile x
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😀
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We must get inside that brain, Mr Townend and see how you think of these things! Fantastic.
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Thank you Lois, although what lies inside my brain may be too scary for most 😉
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Ah a fun new way for an acrostic. I may just have to do my version for you… an acrosTic… maybe not my own invention, but a friend told me she had not seen it before. Until it gets written…
Good night and perhaps a welcome (since the grandchildren have gone home) – silence.
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Hope you got a good night’s sleep 🙂
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Ah… sleep perchance to dream… 🙂
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This prose-poem https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/brides-poetry-201-rehab-decisions/ , originally written in the year 2000, has nothing whatsoever to do with this week’s prompt, except in so far as I recently decided to drag it out of my archives and touch it up a bit and its posting thus has to do with the decisions we are constantly making and re-making as artists as to what to keep and what to discard.
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An intriguing contribution 😉
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I love your poem, Andy – feels hurried, you can feel the decision-making pressure.
My pen ran away again, as it is wont to do. Here is my offering for the week: https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/poetry-101-rehab-decisions/
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Thank you, I was not sure this one would go down to well, yes it was worried, I actually typed it in the notes app on my phone planning to edit and build on the ideas, then I just decided to post it as it was…
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Grands left a tad early today… and well I did start the piece last night…
https://juleslongerstrandsofgems.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/pale-arrangements-9-1-s/
Andy – your clever piece was in part my inspiration…
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Wow, what a great post, multiple acrostics and each one very clever…and thank you!
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Just another day breathing…
I just couldn’t stop at one. The story kept going 🙂
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Really awesome way to have executed your poem on “decisions” – I love how you presented it in form – with the red highlights, the running together of the words – then the break for the final word – “silence” — brilliant! And I admit – audacious! gorgeous choice of words and excellent presentation. 🙂 Has me thinking ….
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Thank you so much, this was a rather rushed poem which I thought would not be well received, so again thank you!
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Sorry I am late BUT here is my poem for this week! ENJOY! https://kaitlynfranzone.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/monday-poetry-decisions/
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Not late at all, and a very wise poem!
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thank you. I have nominated you for the sunshine blogger award. learn more from my post here: https://kaitlynfranzone.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/a-new-nomination/
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Thank you, that is very kind, I will try to respond as soon as I can!
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Hi 🙂 I’ve just found there is a comments section on your page, completely missed it last week! So I might have missed some responses last week if not in reader or linky page. Can’t actually read the comments without highlighting the text but guess that’s your intriguing sense of humour (and my need for dark screen settings!) Enjoyed your response again Andy, especially the final ‘silence’, very powerful close. My quick acrostic poem this week is at https://pitterapatterre.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/decisions-poetry101rehab/ (have used linky&tag also) – I must have been sub-consciously influenced by your use of ‘illusion’ too now I’ve read yours again 🙂 cheers
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Thank you for your great contribution and also the helpful feedback re the darkness of my pages – i hadn’t realised how hard it was to read!!
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I really think it’s just the comment section – at least from poetry101rehab posts, have to admit not havving had enough time to browse too much while getting back in habit and trying to blog hop participants of this and the haiku challenge I’m doing. Anyway, my screen settings are so low that that won’t help, and highlighting the text works fine – now I realised the comment section is there I won’t miss it for checking pingbacks not in the linky 😀 cheers Andy 🙂
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Thank you! And I will check the settings on my blog! 🙂
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Hi Andy, here I am–just a short move this time!
https://validasvagaries.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/decisions-decisions/
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You certainly are moving around! Thank you for a great contribution again!
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You’re most welcome–and I hope to stay settled here for awhile 🙂
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Thank you and good to hear.
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You take is too good! Loved it. Here is my attempt:
https://itsphblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/decision/
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Thank you, yours was very clever!
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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This week’s response to the prompt is at http://wp.me/p5BCD4-br
It was hard to decide, with this prompt, what direction to take, and so I tried out a variety of approaches during the first part of the week. I have been inclined throughout my life to equate “decisions” with tentative goals, abandoning those decisions when it becomes evident that what I actually wanted as outcomes are not going to be forthcoming if I follow tmy decisions through to the end.
Your poem seems to suggest that your approaches to decision-making are similar to mine. 🙂
Liz
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Thank you for this contribution Liz and for your interesting analysis….
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https://silvertongue133.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/7-poetry-101-rehab-decisions/
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Hello again, my friend! I am ever so late this week (not been feeling 100%, to be honest… nothing serious, just worn out!)
At any rate, here is one based on the premise that JOY IS A CHOICE for most of us. Well, it is for me anyway… haha!
Here is the llink: http://motherhendiaries.com/2015/09/05/turn-a-page/
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It’s never too late, in fact that’s my excuse for being so late in responding to your great poem, hope you feel better!
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Thanks, Andy! Much better now…
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Good to hear!
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What an attracting piece 🙂 I like it a lot Andy.
And your picture got me to write this even more than your prompt did this time:
https://schattenengel.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/stay-or-leave/
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Thank you…and also for your own heartbreaking and very apt poem…thank you for contributing this to the rehab!
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