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Tuesday 25 May 2010

POW PROMPT 4

Written for and posted to POW!
Here's this weeks prompt.

Here's mine:

THE AMAZONIAN HATTER
It's not a tea party, it's a garden party, take a slug of this!
'Lemon Verbena? where did that come from? asked Alice, taking a sip.
It comes from Amazonia, replies the Mad Hatter, not Boston!
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Proper Joe's

Tuesday 18 May 2010

POW PROMPT 3

POW PROMPT 3
Something a little less mind bending this time.

It was the first fresh peach I had ever tasted.
I could hardly believe how delicious.
At twenty five I was dumbfounded afresh
By my ignorance of the simplest things.

From 'Fulbright Scholars' Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.

Write a poem inspired by this quote. See you next Wednesday Banditos and remember Bob might not be your Uncle.

Here's mine:

IT I AT BY
It was 'Curry Nite' at the Ooo-flung-doo
I had never tasted curry before
At the death I got curry sauce and chips
By the shed full with salt and vinegar
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Tuesday Challenge??? Phew!!!!

A couple of challenges for you today.
and The American Sandwich game..

Here's my NaiSaiKu:
Man mountain
Triangulation
Pentagon
EQUIANGULAR
Pentagon
Triangulation
Mountain man

The prompt sentence at The American Sandwich game.. is:
Dawn needs to win the lottery before Dave sees the credit card bill.

HERE'S MINE:  
Poetic Flash Fiction in 51 Syllables.
Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.

Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.


CREDIT CRUNCH
Each morning she waits for the postman and hides the letters unopened. Dawn needs to win the lottery before Dave sees the credit card bill. If she doesn't find some money soon, Dave will take her pet robot back.

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What will you write?

Tuesday 11 May 2010

POW PROMPT 2

Written for and posted to POW Prompt 2
Here's the prompt.

Here's mine:
I used one of the rhymes from my playscript Music Street...


NEVER QUITE EVER

Down on the street where
the puppy dogs meet and
the big dogs mate.

I had my first date
with saucy young Kate.

By the back alley where
Gordon met his fate, that's
where the rats come up for air...

She asked, if I loved her?
of course I said, yeah!

...so watch your ankles if
you're strolling down there,
and pull your hat down over
your eyes or you'll think it's
snowing when the pigeons fly.

She kissed me and hugged me
and told me, she loved me!

I guess that's why the boys
wear boots on Music Street...

Blue midnight was, never quite
ever, the same after that!

...they're no good for dancing
but they keep your ankles
strapped to your feet.
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Green
smoke blew
BLUE
blew smoke
green
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Tuesday 4 May 2010

POW PROMPT 1

Written for and posted to POW PROMPT 1
The prompt is to write a poem to this collage.


HERE'S MINE:

THANK THE BIG-BANG
Poet on Wednesday, boozer on Sunday, thank the big-bang for Friday!
Lover on Tuesday, hung-over on Monday, football on Saturday.

Thursday, playing snooker in the bunker, with Adolf and Eva Braun.

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The American Sandwich game..
GAME ONE
: Poetic Flash Fiction in 51 Syllables.
Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

PROPER JOE'S

Saturday 1 May 2010

NaPoWriMo 2010 Farewell RWP

NAPOWRIMO 2010
Finally we have come to the close of another successful NaPoWriMo. May I take this opportunity to congratulate each and every one of you who have managed to write a poem each day of April. Also, I would like to thank everybody at Read Write Poem for the wonderful prompts and encouragement each day. And finally I must mention Maureen Thorson without whom there would be no poetry writing month. And Finally finally, if you didn't do it this year, I encourage you to have a go next year.
SIDE BAR LINKS
You will find links to my poems for each day of the 2010 NaPoWriMo in the side bar on this blog. And if you're interested you will also find links to my 2009 entries and a further 200 poems which are posted on these pages.
MY OTHER BLOGS
I have another poetry blog which is an archive that deals mainly with my earlier work, it's called StraightTalkingStreetTalkingSweetTalkingGuy. Then I have my main blog, Proper Joe's which I have had since 2006. I also have a couple of work-in-progress-novels, which have taken a bit of a back seat in recent months, and I write a monthly column in Nicola Batty's Online Newsletter Raw Meat each month.
INVITATION
I would like to invite you to have a go at my NaiSaiKu Challenge? I put up a new post every Tuesday. If you write HaiKu this is easy! And it's never too late to have a go...
For those of you who write flash fiction, I have The American Sandwich game... If you like/write Allen Ginsberg style American Sentences, then you just might like this too!
NaiSaiKu SAMPLES
Here's a couple of previously unpublished samples of the NaiSaiKu style. The first one is a palindrome.


Twisted wheel

flood flash flood

broken shaft

TWISTER

shaft broken

flood flash flood

wheel twisted

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Shocks cocktail shaker

Sixteen going on sixty

CRÈME DE BANANA

Sixteen going on sixty

Cocktail shaker rocks

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