it’s my favorite thing to do — people (or things!) get in my head and I like to write what I think may be what they think. one of my favorites was a poem I wrote from the point of view of the iron stake that went through the skull of phineas gage… there is a photo of his posing with it (he survived) and it really intrigued me.
Powerful and personal. It’s amazing to me how far so little can take one.
Elizabeth
thank you, elizabeth.
fire (and voice) is universal, it seems.
so gooooood, Angie
why thank you, johannes!
slipped a tanka in there, ‘mongst the moons. and ku…
ah, yes….you do like the short forms! You’ll definitely like the Piku form!
A nice response to the prompt!
thank you!
it’s going to be fun to learn some new forms!!
Yes.
a personal war ? the one to consume all ?
much thoughts about this short one .. like it
mostly joan’s war…
when I do this sort of prompt, I pull a line out of the song and let it goes where it wants to go. thank you!
I like this.
thank you, annell!
Oooh, so nice, Angie. I love the way you use literary/historical figures as inspiration for poems that go way beyond . . .
oh, thank you, margaret!
it’s my favorite thing to do — people (or things!) get in my head and I like to write what I think may be what they think. one of my favorites was a poem I wrote from the point of view of the iron stake that went through the skull of phineas gage… there is a photo of his posing with it (he survived) and it really intrigued me.
(the poem is here, in case you’re interested — https://sites.google.com/site/righthandpointingsite/issue-29-late-trains/angie-werren )
Oh! I love that one too! I think I’m going to try to be more playful with my poems!
it’s a good way to take the “personal” out of a poem, but it stills ends up feeling that way… if that makes sense!