Mindful Poetry Contest: April 12, 2012

Interesting...

Thank you submitting to Gathers Luminous Writers and Artists.

Now featured.

fyi, the word "Conversant" in the first paragraph is a clickable link. It just didn't "light up."

Okay, ty. I was wondering...

This is a fun one...

I love that you post these at midnight. I think about them as I go to sleep.

sweet dreams not nightmares, I hope!

Depends on the theme...

As I'm reading through yesterday's poems, I just love that all of us picked different vices. In a way, it's a little creepy. LOL. I was hoping for envy...but it just wouldn't work out.

Yes and some were exacting about how the vice was bad while others were compassionate about the vice. And everyone's right, too. :-)

Don't forget today is DEAR day.....Drop Everything And Read.

Yes! Like Jax's comment.

posted...

Sounds like a planet out of Star Wars - best of writing luck to all participants :-)

Thanks for sharing and submitting to
The Surreal Circus.

Thank you for posting to the Triple Name Club.

yeah for my twin getting poem of the day yesterday :)

my post for today is up :)

Susan,
I edited my post from yesterday to correct a typo in the tags only, but I expect that means you'll need to re admit it to Mindful Poetry -- if you choose. sorry to make extra work. but in case you wanted to find it again, you'd not have been able to with the run on tag I had...

I did see it and consider it from yesterday when I first read off of the Mindful Poetry post page. I then do a double-check by mp2012. All's well now!

Thank you again for the kudos, Susan. I'm off too see if I can translate a poem into a conversant today.

I did it. It's a silly poem but at least I had fun with it.

with a prompt of animals, I'm betting there will be several silly ones today.

I have to be curious about this. When someone comes up with a new poetic form, does it ever go any further than Gather? Might something such as this become a standard form for all poets?

Ah, Len. I wish I had the clout to make that happen. I think there's some possibility if ALL the members of Mindful Poetry --207 of us-- were to write in that form and post it in every social media site we could and we brought it to classes that we took or taught and we submitted our own poetry written in that form to journals and magazines. But it would have to be a concerted effort and maintained over many months, I think.

I entered a form I'd created for a contest at Writers Digest for their poetry columnist. I won and an entire column was devoted to me and my form--anapeat. But to be honest, nothing's come of even that level of exposure.

I'm sure I could and should do more to exploit/take advantage of my 5-minutes of fame, but I haven't done much but add it to my resume, which I rarely use, and add it to my bio.

On the other hand, people I don't know and have no connection to have used the form and posted their poetry. I know this because I've googled anapeat and searched to see where it's used. I always go to the blog or site where it's found and comment on the poem and introduce myself to the author. They are always surprised and pleased, but I find humbling.

You know, kinda awww, shucks.