Poetry Fishbowl Open!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open!  Today's theme is "Oceans and Other Waters" as selected by the audience in a poll.  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 of ideas and a lot

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[minor_architect]

I've been saving lots of prompts for this month so here we go! *cracks knuckles*

1. Ghost ships that only appear in certain waters because ___.
2. Was the Sea of Galilee changed after Jesus walked on it?
3. Terra-formers create a lake in one place - when it decides that it would really rather be somewhere else.
4. Loch Ness has its monster - so what do the other lochs have?
5. Burials at sea (Viking burials, naval burials, etc.)
6. The Dead Sea and its super-salinity! (The water makes you so buoyant that you can sit upright in it and read a newspaper. :)

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[ysabetwordsmith]

You have hit upon one of my lesser-known interests; I don't venture into the Christian cosmology often, but I do love the more mystic branches of it. So I took your prompt about the Sea of Galilee and explored the miracle of Jesus walking on water from the perspective of the sea itself. After all, if the world was made by God, why wouldn't He send Jesus to speak to the world as well as to the humans? I always figured that was part of what Jesus was doing out in the wilderness. From this I go the free verse poem "His footprints" which details the interaction between Jesus and the Sea of Galilee. The 'changed' aspect mentioned in the prompt is subtle, left primarily for the reader to interpret -- but of course, no one and nothing could hear the Word of God and remain untouched.

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[minor_architect]

After all, if the world was made by God, why wouldn't He send Jesus to speak to the world as well as to the humans? I always figured that was part of what Jesus was doing out in the wilderness.

The above REALLY makes me curious to see what you've done with this poem so I'd like to sponsor it! Payment will be sent in the usual manner (and with a small holiday gift attached). Thank you!

(I wish I could sponsor "Only Begotten Earth," as well - even in part - but there's no room in the budget this month. Maybe I'll ask for co-sponsors in January.)

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>The above REALLY makes me curious to see what you've done with this poem so I'd like to sponsor it! Payment will be sent in the usual manner (and with a small holiday gift attached). <<

I have posted "His footprints" for you. I look forward to seeing what you send!

>>I wish I could sponsor "Only Begotten Earth," as well - even in part - but there's no room in the budget this month. Maybe I'll ask for co-sponsors in January.<<

That's okay. If it doesn't get picked up by someone else this month, you're certainly welcome to retrieve it later. Remember you can split the bigger pieces into multiple payments if that helps.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Still following the Sea of Galilee prompt, and the sort of things that Jesus might have said to the world, I got to thinking: What if the Earth allowed humans to torture it for the enlightenment of their souls? (After all, why should something with the massive power of a planet put up with the indignities perpetrated upon it by a bunch of jumped-up apes?) So that led to another free verse poem, "Only Begotten Earth," in which Jesus talks with the world about the challenges to come, asking the Earth to forgive humankind and have faith in their potential.

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