“the most idiotically useless phrase in a beginner’s French textbook”
– Life Magazine, 1958
Poetry 101 Rehab was initially created for those who missed the creative writing challenge of the Writing 201 Poetry course run by the Daily Post.
How does it work?
Feel free to answer the prompt, twist it or ignore it; write a poem of your own or share a poem by another author. Write about your inspiration, your creative process or other poetry related thoughts, but this is in no way obligatory. Nothing is obligatory in this challenge. The idea is to get together, talk poetry and enjoy.
How can you take part?
Anyone can take part, 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 be your host, and I’m here to reply to your comments, read your poetry, like and comment. While this post is the starting point for this week’s challenge, do visit fellow poets in the link-up and chat to them on their blogs!
The prompt for this week is FALLACY.
it’s self evident to me
(and my little
pet flea)
that
the world is flat
as flat as the mat
on which
sat (Schrodinger’s)
cat
as flat as la plume
de ma tante
on which
(i imagine), she
(repeatedly)
sat
as flat as the gnat
swatted dead
with just
one swipe
of my hat
some say it is round
but what
do they know
they’ll all come
around
soon enough
to my
way of thinking
or i’ll eat my hat
so that’s
that
This week’s prompt is also my rambling, and (unusually) whimsical, response to the prompt for Day 6 of the WordPress Writing 101 Poetry .
What will your take on the keyword FALLACY be?
Write about it in a poetry post and share your link in the comments section of this post and / or by clicking on the Poetry 101 Badge above.
writing 101 poetry | six | fallacy | prompt by jason preu
Happy to read your poem on the prompt.
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Thank you!
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“Among Friends” – http://wp.me/p5BCD4-jL
My poetry, this morning, tends toward fantasy and whimsy. For this challenge, I have chosen to pattern my poem using “pathetic fallacy”, inspired in part by the series of images in your poem, Andy. I hope that you will enjoy my poem, also.
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Yes Lizl I enjoyed your poem, it was actually quite haunting and can be read on more than one level, thank you for continuing to contribute!
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and now I can’t skip fallacy. Damn. I guess I will have to find a fallacy in my fantasy land. Sigh. I love your take by the way.
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Thank you, look forward to seeing your take on fallacy.
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It’s not as outside the box as other takes but for my characters, well, it’s a fallacy.
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Love your take, Andy!
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Thank you, it’s always been a bit tricky being a graduate in Chemistry and having studied quantum physics and all that stuff with poor old Schrödinger cat, to be one of the few left who believe the world to be flat 😉
ps – it’s also hard having been to Australia so often because that involves surviving the waterfall at the edge of the world and then travelling on the underside…and ignoring that disconcerting view out the window of a curved earth, the airlines are involved in the spherist conspiracy!
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I love it!!! And what an interesting prompt to ponder…
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Thank you!
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Welcome 🙂
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How wonderfully playful poem, I loved it!
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it, I enjoyed this one..
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This was lots of fun, Andy.
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Thanks Ben, it’s a great course, and always good to experiment a little 🙂
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That was delightful, Andy! Love the bit about “(Schrodinger’s)
cat” — great allusion, wonderful rhymes, full of whimsy.
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Thank you it as fun to write and I’ve always had a fascination with the cat of S.
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Ha! I wrote (not poetically though) for this prompt and yet it could fit the ‘Missing persons’ prompt too…
I think we may have a ‘Twilight Zone’ thing going on…???
Anyway another BeeBee snippet worked out here:
Paradox on Parade Keeping score?
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Here is my take on this week’s prompt: https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/sonnets-on-autism/
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Here you go:
https://lazulitopia.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/fallacy-ill-fitting-garment/
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Hi, invitation in hand I popped in to say that I posted my first contribution to poetry 101 rehab….
http://mumbletymuse.com/2015/12/21/pollyanna-me/
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Thank you, and a lovely first contribution!
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I shall try again to see if my poem shows up… http://mumbletymuse.com/2015/12/21/pollyanna-me/
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Hello, thank you so much for contributing, I’ve just checked the reader and I can see your poem with the tag Poetry 101 Rehab, so welcome! And now I will go read it 🙂
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just for fun
http://mumbletymuse.com/2015/12/21/chloes-pursuit-of-romance/
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Thank you for joining in!
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