Poetry Challenge

[gehayi]

Hello, all.

With the permission of memorycharm (because she's become so identified with this challenge), we'll be holding a Poetry Challenge

Comments

[gunderpants]

Ooh! I admit that this isn't my usual style of writing but I'd love to give it a shot as a non-member.

Sign me up for #32 please, my good madam!

[gehayi]

You've got it. Your prompt is:

A night-watch of wind,
A night-watch of snow -
And a clamor that shatters my sleepless home-sick heart.--by Nalan Xingde

[prurient_badger]

This sounds really interesting. I'll take 13, please. XD

[gehayi]

Strange indeed,
How love in other ways so particular
Will pick a corner in that charnel house "Vultures," by Chinua Achebe

[eudaimon]

9, please.

[gehayi]

My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine--"Childe Roland" by Robert Browning

[gehayi]

Here is no treasure hid,
No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring
The sought-for truth, no heads of women slain
For greed like yours, no writhings of distress,
But only what you see...--"Bluebeard" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[shiv5468]

No 1 please.

[gehayi]

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.--"The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

[shiv5468]

Thank you. I shall email the link when I am finished, as per instructions. Is there some sort of time limit on this?

[gehayi]

You're welcome. And oh, dear. I didn't set a time limit, did I?

I think that--with the permission of the other mods--this will go until June 10th>. That's two months, and it gives people a fair bit of time. Less pressure, in other words.