Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Verse First ~ I Cried Out

Verse First ~ I Cried Out


Welcome to Verse First, where simple notions prompt amazing poems. 
Today's notion?


I CRIED OUT



Write in the first person. Avoid cliches; eschew the ordinary. Surprise, inspire, educate, elucidate. That's it. That's all I'm giving you poet-friends. Now write me a poem. ;-)

~ Kim





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22 comments:

  1. ...i most often than not write in first person... it's like as if i am in an acting workshop & i am internalizing a situation or character given to me ... smiles... thank you Kim... today, i'm venturing some time writing found poetry using poems of the great dead poets with the goal of giving my own flavour... so, for now i'm sharing a gem i found in Carl Sandburg's poem 'Fog'... smiles...

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  2. Another great prompt... thanks, Kim.

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  3. not sure if i have done justice to this great prompt..thanks, Kim.

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  4. Nice Prompt. I had to stop everything else and just do it once I read it.

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  5. Glad you are getting right to it. I am very excited to see where this leads creative minds.

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  6. Another great prompt, Kim.

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  7. Love the prompt and love where it took me.......I cant link directly to Verse First on my page though....so I linked to P.U.

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  8. Glad you like this one, Paul and Sherry. I just posted mine as well. First writing in weeks, over here. I feel the knots in my shoulders releasing! :-)!

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  9. Interesting prompt. For some reason, my first link didn't work?

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    1. Removed the bad link, Annell. Thanks for trying again!

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  10. KIm,

    Some writing about the pain of truthful realities...I did indeed cry out....Good to express it in words.

    Eileen

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  11. Well, I have now commented on everyone's writing...and I thank those of you who also make visits. Not an easy theme, Kim; but a REAL one.

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  12. I am just visiting today, and liked all the poetry I saw...

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  13. The truth is, I wrote "Another Story" for Poets United, and then read the brief instructions which I had ignored: First person and all of the bursts of pleasure following. So I removed the link. But for the curious (and especially Kim), here it is: http://susanspoetry.blogspot.com/2013/08/another-story.html

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  14. I was wondering...what kind of prompt? and what should I write?.
    Kim...hope reached up to your expectations.

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  15. Kim..I know, this is a ridiculous poem. Just wanted to be part of this...:)

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  16. Love the contributions here. Some so intensely personal, some less so. All are terrific contributions. And Susan... amazing!

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  17. I had written my submission back in 2011. It Just so happened to fit the criteria for this challenge:) Good prompt though. I am excited to see the next on.

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  18. I want to also say that I read every submission and there is a plethora of varied talent here. Glad to be a part of this.

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  19. I didn't stick to the rule of writing in the first person, not in whole anyway, it's really hard for me..

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