My local writing community Gatehouse is having another competition - a poetry one - they are challenging you to make a poem purely from a list - SEE HERE for details. Winning entry wins a book - and there are no entries yet!
I wrote a poem (three versions of the same thing, to be honest), totally different from the wonderful example in the link, with a very loose interpretation of the meaning of "list". I feel a bit forward for asking, but may I ask if you would have the time to give it a beta-check and tell me what you think? I would thank you forever, even if you tell me it's rubbish! Feel free to say no, if you are too busy or if poems are not your kind of thing - it's probably not good enough for the competition anyway. And a last warning: it doesn't rhyme and someone gets killed.
I was once looking at the bit in the telephone directory where they give you the codes for different exchanges, and realised that, with a tiny bit of moving around out of alphabetical order, the exchanges beginning with Q made two lines of a poem. Sort of.
Quainton, Queensbury, Quedgeley and Quatt, Queen's Head, Quidenham and Quorn.
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Date: 2007-07-06 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-06 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-06 07:49 pm (UTC)I wrote a poem (three versions of the same thing, to be honest), totally different from the wonderful example in the link, with a very loose interpretation of the meaning of "list". I feel a bit forward for asking, but may I ask if you would have the time to give it a beta-check and tell me what you think? I would thank you forever, even if you tell me it's rubbish! Feel free to say no, if you are too busy or if poems are not your kind of thing - it's probably not good enough for the competition anyway. And a last warning: it doesn't rhyme and someone gets killed.
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Date: 2007-07-06 07:59 pm (UTC)erastes at erastes dot com
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Date: 2007-07-06 08:20 pm (UTC)The email is on its way...
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Date: 2007-07-06 06:55 pm (UTC)Fabulous.
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Date: 2007-07-06 07:47 pm (UTC)*G*
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Date: 2007-07-06 07:53 pm (UTC)Quainton, Queensbury, Quedgeley and Quatt,
Queen's Head, Quidenham and Quorn.
But I could never make anything else go with it.
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Date: 2007-07-06 08:00 pm (UTC)How about doing a 26 section poem, two lines per letter.