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ysabetwordsmith

Poetry Fishbowl Open!

Feb 04, 2014 12:45

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and enthusiasm.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "love." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot ( Read more... )

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ellenmillion February 4 2014, 19:17:12 UTC

Lorn without the love

A really bad matchmaker

(And I really, really, REALLY want to know what happened between Fala and Dareg to break them up...)

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 5 2014, 10:30:48 UTC

From your second prompt I got "Mismatchmakers." There are many goddesses of love, and some of them oversee trouble. When they get together, it gets even worse. This poem is written in unrhymed tercets.

30 lines, Buy It Now = $15

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 4 2014, 19:20:14 UTC

Based on a backchannel prompt from Anthony Barrette, I got the free-verse poem "No-Good Lovers," which uses the extended metaphor of a toxic relationship to explore how people interact with money.

35 lines, Buy It Now = $15

janetmiles February 4 2014, 19:36:28 UTC

Live, love, laugh - if you can't laugh together, is it really love?

Rose is a rose is eros

puppy piles

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 5 2014, 01:26:20 UTC

See below "The Feast of Saint Valentine" for a puppy pile.

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 6 2014, 01:10:29 UTC

For love and laughter, see below "As One of Your Countrymen."

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 6 2014, 04:54:43 UTC

More love and laughter appear in "Waiting Hand and Foot," thumbnailed below.

technoshaman February 4 2014, 20:01:05 UTC

Dale and Kelly being silly. Visual puns?

Valentine's day in Waxahatchie has *gotta* be interesting. So many ways to express.

Victor and Igor? Perhaps work through a misunderstanding ...

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 5 2014, 01:25:40 UTC

The prompt about Victor and Igor brought up that conversation they've been NOT having about employment vs. family relationships. It did not go well. Fortunately they had friends in the village to help them through the messy aftermath. Also more awesome local color emerged; I'm really falling in love with this setting. "The Feast of Saint Valentine" is written in free verse.

360 lines, Buy It Now = $180

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 6 2014, 04:52:55 UTC

From your Valentine's Day prompt came the free-verse poem "Waiting Hand and Foot," as Quinn and Ash take care of each other by exchanging massage. Also there is French comfort food.

72 lines, Buy It Now = $36

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 7 2014, 00:33:41 UTC

Your prompt about Dale and Kelly led to "Pussy Willows and Tiger Lilies." This is a free-verse Valentine's Day poem with a light tone.

27 lines, Buy It Now = $15

Poem ysabetwordsmith February 4 2014, 20:08:26 UTC

A Dreamwidth prompt inspired the free-verse poem "Valor's Widow." A superhero's wife chooses to sacrifice him to save a city.

46 lines, Buy It Now = $20