A Poetry Circle?

[Matt]

I love the stuff that's been posted in here, its such a wonderful form of writing that kind of...transports you in a way that even short stories can't.

Anyway...:idea:

Would you guys like to maybe start some kind of poetry circle where we could (just as an idea to throw around) but maybe pic a broad subject and then research poetry written on it? Like..."nature" for instance.

The we could have a thread, maybe once a month where we post the poems we have found and discuss the meaning.

We could tweak it around a bit or whatever but I thought it might be nice to start something like this.

[OchrisO]

I'd be into it.

[Candice Dionysus]

I'd love to! We could toss ideas around, as well, to find something that really works for everyone! ^_^

[Jean]

Great idea. Nature, like love, seems too broad, though; most everything fits under that category. You could make it more challenging if you narrow the notion. Water, for example, or mirror, or farewell. This way we'll go on with the ancient tradition of French poetry contests!

[Matt]

I think that sounds great. I would love to look up a bit of poetry.

[tamez]

we could also pick a theme and everyone write poetry on that subject
instead of just looking at things that are already written :cool:

[OchrisO]

Haha. I'd be pretty intimidated by that. It took me several days of pondering to work up the nerve to post my crappy Slam Poetry.

I guess it would probably help my writing, though. I could probably torment myself into doing that. :)

[Brice]

I think it's a great idea Tamez. I however would have to exclude myself from that. I am at the disadvantage, having read how I write. :lol:

[Ruki]

i bet you're pretty good and you just don't know it. i read stuff that you've written pretty often and even though i doubt you mean for any of it to be poetic or creative much of it is anyway.

[Matt]

That was kind of my first idea to and then I thought..."omg, I would have to write something" :lol:

[Brice]

i bet you're pretty good and you just don't know it. i read stuff that you've written pretty often and even though i doubt you mean for any of it to be poetic or creative much of it is anyway.

Very likely more so than my actual poetry.

[Ruki]

i bet you're pretty good and you just don't know it. i read stuff that you've written pretty often and even though i doubt you mean for any of it to be poetic or creative much of it is anyway.

Very likely more so than my actual poetry.

let me read some and find out for myself :) if you post a poem i'll buy you a slushie.

[tamez]

well, we could do both things
and people could participate however they want.
bring something old, and something new
something borrowed and something blue :excited:

[Candice Dionysus]

I like both ideas! It would be very helpful, artistically, I think. Especially for those of us who's strong points lie elsewhere in writing. A most excellent exercise.

[Jean]

another - other than writing poems on a given topic - way those contests were, historically, held, is to write poems following a given first (more rarely, last) line - like Je meurs de soif auprès de la fontaine - I Die Of Thirst At The Fountain Side by F.Villon, the famous ballade written as a result of such a contest held by Charles d'Orléans. Of course, if the participants were to keep to a given form (sonnet or ballade), it would make the whole thing even more challenging.

[Letti]

Great idea. Nature, like love, seems too broad, though; most everything fits under that category. You could make it more challenging if you narrow the notion. Water, for example, or mirror, or farewell. This way we'll go on with the ancient tradition of French poetry contests!

I used to play it a lot but just in Hungarian (or something similar). I am sure I wouldn't be able to play it in English. But I'd love to read it.

If you don't mind I'll tell you how we played it.
Someone who wasn't in the same gave us 3 words. Always 3. And we could write a poem about everything but those 3 words had to be in it.
For example:
- wing
- tear
- petal
It was amazing to see what people could creat around the same words. Sometimes they were very similar to each other but sometimes they were very different... one of us wrote about life and the other wrote about death..
See?

[tamez]

ok, Letti's idea rocks, (jean's too)
let's do that shit for reel :huglove:

[Matt]

I love all the ideas too, we may need to get several of these going at once.

I think the last couple are probably the most user friendly.

[Odetta]

OK, I just started Letti's idea. Maybe Jean, you could start your idea as I can't think of an opening line.

[The_Nameless]

Hmm..

Seems a tad bit daunting.

Ah, what the hell; I'm willing to give it a shot.

[Odetta]

hell, if I can do it, anyone can!

[Jon]

I like the idea of a general theme the best but the other is great too!

[Jean]

by the way, nobody started a general theme circle yet.

[Odetta]

I'm on it!

[Frunobulax]

You keep on feeding ideas, I'll keep on writing.

[LadyHitchhiker]

I wil try to make time to write like I used to... I haven't shared much of my writing besides parodies but I'll see out of the thousands of poems I have what may work.

[Jon]

I wil try to make time to write like I used to... I haven't shared much of my writing besides parodies but I'll see out of the thousands of poems I have what may work.

You write other things too!!:huglove:

[LadyHitchhiker]

I write all sorts of things besides dark tower parodies... :D

[Jon]

I write all sorts of things besides dark tower parodies... :D

Hallmark cards?

[LadyHitchhiker]

I wish I could get paid to make cards.... instead I send out lovely postcards and make them into Hallmarky cards... :D

[Jon]

I could put poems in them for you!

[Jon]

bump

[VastOne]

Jon,

Whatever became of this? I would be very interested....

Vast

[Jon]

I suspect there already is one...not sure.

[Jean]

what exactly? There are three poetry circles threads, all open and more or less active, although less active recently because such prominent poets as, for example, Fruno, Daniel, and Steve, are wandering somewhere instead of posting. There is a parody thread, too, somewhere in End-World.