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I felt my initial efforts fell short thinking they were more parody than imitation so I withdrew from the challenge but I'm seriously impressed by the volume and talent therein. s to all
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personally, i didn't come up with anything new for this challenge; the piece i offered was written without any intent to seriously emulate, only an acceptance of trying to write freer, bigger, and to address topics more universally.
Just two more days to go (officially--but I'll be out of town through the weekend, so anything showing up to mid-day Sunday PDT will be fine). I'll start going through and putting names on poems next Monday.
Thanks to everyone who has participated. The goal, as in any challenge, is mainly to get people to write something and to, I hope, have a good time. I think the submissions were all quite good (including those by Tess and Mag--you guys are underestimating yourselves). Some of the poems were truly outstanding.
Yes, I thought that was a thoroughly excellent example of blank verse, which is a form I personally have trouble with.I hesitate to return to the topic of meter, but I must give props to the author of number 4, who has produced a very graceful and confident iambic pentameter, accompanied by sly wit.
I went through a period of reading lots of plays by Shakespeare and Schiller, and before long I found myself thinking and speaking in blank verse. It's that infectious.Yes, I thought that was a thoroughly excellent example of blank verse, which is a form I personally have trouble with.
The poem is also interesting, funny, clever, and really well done.
One of the things I've really liked about this challenge is how good, how interesting the response poems are.
You people rock.
Musical coda, for Angie. And for Magnetron and for Pelegrino.
Just because.
Y'know, I've said this already, multiple times, in fact, but I've been re-reading the poems submitted for this thread and I really want to thank everyone who has participated. You all have written some freaking awesome poems. They are uniformly interesting, varied, intelligent, and way fun to read.
The challenge has worked out even better than I had hoped.
I am off for the weekend, but if any of you want to slip another poem under the closed door of the challenge, feel free to do so. I'll post any final entries when I get back late Sunday or Monday.
Musical coda, for Angie. And for Magnetron and for Pelegrino.
Just because.
Well I'm guessing 28 is either Harry or Mag...
The last one posted is Greenmountaineer
I found it to be way, way fun, and I'm delighted that someone even managed to get Equinoxe to respond to the thread. I'd love to say that that someone was Jakob Maria Mierscheid, but, alas, it was someone else.
At least she wrote tanka, which to my knowledge, JMM never did.
Good poems, all. Good night, and all of you be very well.