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An Invitation to Join "We The Poets"

"We The Poets" started as a weekly poetry workshop for readers of our local internet exchanges, and due to wider ranging interest, I am now widening the catchment area and making it into a blog. Each post has writing exercises and examples of poetry on different topics and themes. You can enter your responses in the "comments" area or personally to me in my contact form and I will do my best to respond. This is not a class ! A circle implies equals participating in a shared activity, and that is the intention. Any comments from me should be taken with the appropriate amount of salt. I look forward to hearing your responses.
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Prompt: Acrostics

Acrostics can be just exercises in fun, or the device can be used to focus powerfully on a word, phrase or concept. Here's one I wrote about the constellation Andromeda: Antagonist Neverending  Disclosure Reflecting Our dual Multiplexes' Eventual  Destinies: Andromeda. I invite our citizen poets to write an acrostic, either choosing their own initial letters or using: the words "Romance" or "Catastrophe"

This Weeks Prompt

 Hello, poets ! An interesting response to last week's quite strict prompt.! For this week, write to the following idea: "On the first day......." On the second day....." Each day would be a line or a whole verse. For as many days as you want !..... Richard

Local Poets' Resposes to "Citizen Poetry" Prompts.

  We're in April, and Spring is catching up with us !   Over the past three months I have been inviting local poets to send me poems, usually in response to simple prompts.   Here follows a selection of this work - such a variety of voices and subjects! Thank you, everyone who sent me such riches - I am publishing here just my own limited selection, with only one or two poems per person.   Browse away ! I hope to extend our scope from here, recruit more poets, and try to keep up with weekly posts.   So here, to begin, is my anthology: If I have missed anyone, my apologies -.  What if we didn’t need to scintillate our dulled senses with spectacle – if ordinary miracles weren’t hidden at all, but offered: cathedrals of the forest, spires of pine and oak nearly transparent in the deepening dusk, such moments of wonder strung through our days like pearls, lit from within, waiting to be seen?   --Peaco Todd - .  Silent   silence is thunde...

Prompt for April 3rd

THE SIX WORD PROMPT, APRIL 3RD.: ADJECTIVES!         Tolerable                                  Challenging                                  Breath-taking                                  Gigantic                                  Murky                                  Endless Extra challenge - Fit these into a poem of no more than fifty words. I look forward to seeing them ! Richard

Citizen Poets: It's still snowy here!

 Citizen Poets: It's still snowy here! Not the time of year to think about snow with much pleasure? I really don't believe that we are done yet ! Five years ago I wrote this to my students: What if Each snowflake Were a hexagonal piece To jigsaw together To play the game of the universe? For this week, how about a poem which is a question, and  has to use the following words ? Scintillate Hidden Transparent Spire Pearls Deepening I hope to be ready to post poems on the exchanges and the blog promptly this week - does anyone prefer anonymity or a pseudonym ? Richard Posner

The Baggage of a Poem

Over some past weeks I published some rafts of a poem, showing how its words, form and meaning gradually emerged from  the clutter of my mind. Today I discovered the origin of the central image of the space ladder, the idea of which I first encountered some years ago.