I thought posting challenges from time to time might be helpful to keep us moving along. This challenge was posed to me by a WashU poet on Thursday.
Word Poem:
-Write a poem using the following words:
glory, peculiar, convivial, pain, fathom, grim
(or some close version of them)
-Poem must be 13 lines long
Don't worry about quality! Just have fun with it, even if you don't think you're "good" at poetry.
Here is the poem I came up with.
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I'll try to do that poetry challenge during lunch tomorrow and post it after work.
ReplyDeleteI'd mainly like to see more interaction. I don't think very much content ever went out over ye olde ThickerThanInk and not many responses ever went back. I'll admit to being as much a part of the problem as anybody else, but I'd like to see more content and more responses this time.
Also a chain story or chain stories. I think that would be cool.
Content and commentary I can do. I fear I could bury people in content (not always mine all the times, obviously).
ReplyDeleteI have the next challenge lined up, too. Of course, if you have a draft you want people to look at something different, then go ahead and put that up too.
The word-combination "peculiar glory" made me think of Pandemonium, the palace that Satan and friends built in Hell in Paradise Lost. Apparently I find that both glorious and peculiar, so I wrote a poem about it. Also, I noticed that you uploaded some stuff to those folders already, some of which fills me with shame. To compensate I added Shameless to my folder, which was the short story that I wrote for my creative writing class.
ReplyDeleteThose links don't work, do they? Awesome. At some point somebody will have to explain how all of this newfangled gizmology works.
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ReplyDeleteI like your line
"They gorge themselves on ash and dust"
and also the final line.
I'm wondering if you meant "feast" instead of "fest," though.