2010 April PAD Challenge Day 3

Posted by Robert

Sorry for the later posting time today. I was on the road until almost 4 in the morning driving up to Ohio with Tammy and 3 of my boys. So, the poetry writing this morning might not make a lot of sense, since I'm operating on less sleep.
For today's prompt, I want you to take the phrase "Partly (blank ( Read more... )

I've decided to make the prompts public, I'll just post my poems to the filter. That way anyone who wants to play can join in! As I stated in yesterday's prompt (which I'll go back and make public in a minute), I'd LOVE it if folks posted their responses to the prompts here to inspire the rest of us!

2010 April PAD Challenge Day 2

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April PAD Challenge Day 1

It's time for another April Poem-A-Day Challenge. (Click here to read the guidelines.) The prompts are ready. Now, all we need to do is write the poems.

Today is day one, and for some reason the number one made me think of "One is the Loneliest Number," by Three Dog Night. That's what happens when I create prompts while ( Read more... )

Okay, so I can't win NaNoWriMo for shit. I'm just not that creative - fiction doesn't fall out of my head like it does for so many of my friends (or my mate, who was apparently exceptionally productive the other day, and there's more anach to peruse! Squee!). But poetry? Yeah, I can do that. Not to perform, not like my mate, or any of the amazing ( Read more... )

and I want to have it handy on my own livejournal...

Pay Attention.

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Yep, almost makes ya want to emigrate. :) He's GOOD!

This one's for you, bodhifox. Just made me think of you.

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(Side note - is it just me, or does he remind anybody else of Dave Motha Fuckin' Nichols?)
*grins*

Ed Plunkett just blogged about this over here , or I wouldn't know. :)
('Yote and I were out on a date last night, so we missed the Opening Ceremonies.)

From his  blog: "I do not know Shane Koyczan, but he just went on a podium in the middle of the opening ceremonies for the Olympics, in front of an audience of hundreds of millions and did this poem ( Read more... )

More tomorrow - I've got pictures and lots of happy SQUEE! :) But for now, here's 'Yote doing his poetry thing. :D

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as written by sethanikeem

Her intro:

This started as a joke version of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." It is shamelessly inspired by an installment of the comic For Better or for Worse I read about week ago. I kept playing around with the first line and now there's a whole story to share:


( The Vampire's Christmas... )

A poem I wrote of the memory of that first meeting. :)

( Sappy poetry behind the cut... )