Do you miss the Writing 201: Poetry course by the Daily Post? Then join this blogging challenge, Poetry 101 Rehab, that will provide your poetry fix!
How It Works
Each Monday at 01:00 pm UTC I will publish a poetry prompt along with my response to it. You are invited to answer the prompt, twist it or ignore it; write a poem of your own or share a poem by another author.
I would love to hear about your inspiration, your creative process or other poetry related thoughts, but this is no way obligatory. Nothing is obligatory in this challenge, the idea is to get together, talk poetry and have fun!
How You Can Join
Anyone can participate, anytime you want. Publish your poetry post and add a link to it to the InLinkz link-up below my post, or share your link in a comment. Use the tag Poetry 101 Rehab, so we can find each other in the Reader.
I will act as your hostess, and I’ll be here for you to reply your comments, read your verses, like and comment. While my blog is the starting point for the challenge, do visit fellow poets in the link-up and chat to them on their blogs!
The Prompt: Recycle
Disposable
Like a paper towel
Foldable
Like an outdoor chair
To be put away
Thrown out
The day
I
Die
And
Am
Discarded | Shredded | Recycled
This week’s prompt is RECYCLE. I approached the topic in a figurative manner, linking recycling to death and stopping there, rather than elaborating on the implications of rebirth that the word RECYCLE holds. You might want to take it from here; or you might want to come up with your very own interpretation of the prompt. What will your take on the keyword RECYCLE be? Blog about it in a poetry post and share your link below!
Bleak, beautiful. Recycled.
Here is my response, sorry adverbs were involved, at least once..
http://andytownend.com/2015/05/11/recycle/
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You take the “recycle” prompt to a wholly new level with your poem: recycling is happening in its form, in its content and even in the photo that goes with it! Excellent 🙂
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A good prompt deserves a good response, even a recycled, reused and repackaged one 😉
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A smart response 🙂 And true, I should think…
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Great poem @ Mara!
And great prompt as well!
So here we go:
https://schattenengel.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/dont-recycle-us/
It’s called “Don’t recycle us…”
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Thank you for your kind words and thank you for another excellent contribution to the rehab! I absolutely love how creatively you developed the prompt! Unique, original, great 🙂
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That wouldn’t have been written without your prompt … Thank you
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Anytime 🙂
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I attempt poetry part two. ✪
https://muddiedthoughts.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/poetry-rehab-101-recycle-her-body-is-a-wasteland/
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What a powerful and painful poem… It’s a haunting piece that begs for re-reading. Thank you so much for sharing it!
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Thank *you* for providing the prompt! 🙂 ✪
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Anytime! Actually, once a week 😉
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Your poem took my breath away.
It’s amazing, incredibly painful and somehow hauntingly desperate.
To say your “attempt” was successful would be more than just an understatement :O !
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Wow, thank you so much! I’m so glad my poem resonated with you. ; w ; ✪
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Wow, love it!
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Thank you! Recycling is good 🙂
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Absolutely! 🙂
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Another week, another poem. Wrote through a daze of cold medicine.
https://tuckedintoacorner.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/poetry-101-rehab-recycling/
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I hope you’ll feel better soon! Your medicine had no adversary effect on your poem, which develops a great idea in a great style! Thank you for writing and contributing even though you’re unwell…
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Thank you! I rather threw aside my usual style for this 🙂 Perhaps the medicine influenced that… hmm…
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That’s the good side effects then 🙂
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Great prompt.
here’s my offering.
https://fredthethread.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/recycle-poetry-101-rehab-challenge/
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Thank you so much for your wonderful poem, full of hope and strength and determination! I love your interpretation of the prompt 🙂
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It’s very encouraging.
Totally made my day 🙂 !
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I like the analogy in your poem – with relationships. It challenges our notions and beliefs about a ‘throwaway’ society. We don’t just view objects but people as disposable. Good point.
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Thank you for thinking about poetry with me and writing poetry too! It’s great to exchange poems and ideas 🙂
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Your verses taste like Soylent Green…
I wrote a poem that touches the subject of recycling some time ago: https://thishideousheart.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/ode-to-a-handkerchief/
However, I’ve just finished Marie Kondo’s book and I know several trips to the recycle bins await me, so I feel particularly inspired to meditate on this matter once again!
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Thank you for your hilarious and serious poem: I couldn’t help chuckling and cringing a little at the mucus etc. lines… :-O Also, thank you for comparing my work to Soylent Green. I mean, thank you, I guess 😉
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My very rushed effort for this week, hope you enjoy! Loved your take on it as always 🙂 https://bencnicholson.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/poetry-101-rehab-recycle/
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If your poem was rushed, it doesn’t show. I love the list format and I love the idea that you develop – I concur with you. Thank you, as always, for a superb contribution to the rehab!
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Loved doing this prompt!
https://itsphblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/recycle/
and your poem is so much perfection! specially the last line. Awesome! 🙂
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Thank you for your kind words! Too kind in fact because your poem is simply superb! I love the idea as much as the strikingly original layout 🙂 Great job!
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Thank you so much! am so much all smiles.. 🙂
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Good 🙂
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This is the second poem that I wrote to this prompt: http://wp.me/p5BCD4-7k – as in recycling life … somewhat more animated in execution than your version. Yours is much more . . . down to earth? I enjoyed it!
I like the first poem that I wrote for the recycle prompt that I decided to submit it to an editor; it’s been quite a while since I last sent out a poem to them. The pub. has gotten a new editor since I last submitted a poem to them, so I don’t know the response time.
I expect to have time to start reading others’ poems. I don’t like to read ahead before I’ve written mine.
Hope your day has gone well!
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That’s a smart and slightly tongue-in-cheek response to the prompt, I adore it! I totally understand that you prefer to write your response first and then check out others’ poems – but I do assure you that your take is perfectly unique and I haven’t read anything similar to it. Great job, and good luck with the publishing!
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So happy that you like it. I was chuckling as I wrote it. It came out of a conversation with my husband as we were coming home from the grocery–a “goodies” run. It has been fun to read other people’s poems, the styles as well as their takes on the themes. You’re right. Nothing similar to mine, and the variety stimulates. Writing is a solitary pursuit up to a point, but . . .
Also, I did receive a note from the editor, saying that she wants that (first recycling) poem I submitted. First poem I’ve sent out since 2011. B|
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Well, writing might be solitary to start with, but then it turns into reading, which can be a collective activity! Great news about the publication, huge congrats!
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Must say Mara, this is the best prompt so far (more so bcoz of your interpretation) 🙂
It’s great.
Here’s my unthoughtful version!
https://realistrebel.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/cycle-of-recycle/
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Oh dear, thank you so much for your kind words, I’m almost blushing at the compliment… Your poem is excellent, I’m very fond of the idea of rebirth, and your interpretation of the topic is very appealing. Thank you so much for joining in the fun!
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Oh haha you are most welcome! And thank you for reminding everyone that one thing can be seen from many different angles and directions. 🙂
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The pleasure is mine!
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🙂 I have often mused about what will happen when I go. How I should be disposed of. I like the notion of being recycled (perhaps at the base of some grand old tree) but shredded seems a little brutal. Nicely done. I particularly like the folding chair reference.
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ps…I can’t wait to be home so I can go back in and luxuriate over everyone’s responses to the various prompts. Just too frustratingly slow from the connection I am on 🙂 I am having to take up a Buddhist-like view of life passing slowly and thoughtfully to stop myself from becoming completely frustrated when just posting and/or responding 🙂
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That’s the way to go! Wishing you lots of Zen…
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Oh yes, shredding of course is not a nice way to go, but being recycled after death into something live would be nice…
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morbid, great and uplifting at the same time, can that be possible?
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Thank you for connecting with my little piece on so many levels!
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I know it is a couple of weeks late, but I think this poem I just wrote fits both your Recycle and Couple categories in some way. https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/first-crush/
I am still stumped by the Sugar challenge, even though I have been struggling for several decades now to produce an epyllion-style poem on the sugar industry as a companion piece to the ongoing Honey poem that i posted earlier this year https://oudeis2005.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/writing-201-poetry-assignment-4-animals-honey-an-essay-on-animal-poetry-and-an-ongoing-effort-to-produce-a-bee-poem/
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It’s never too late to contribute with great poems! I’m glad that you did. You put two challenges into one poem just great, and your bee epic is – epic… Thank you very much for sharing your pieces!
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Trying to catch up with all the new prompts while I’ve been away! Actually recycling my old ideas for new ones:
https://epicbloggingnow.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/recycle/
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Returning to old ideas from new perspectives is great! Also, it’s perfectly in keeping with the recycle prompt 😀 You rock!
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