Poetry Kitchen: Sonnet Side Up
Mar. 7th, 2011 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alpharaposaWelcome to the Poetry Kitchen! Today, I'm whipping up a batch of sonnets, and will make one just for you. Simply follow the rules below:
1) Give me ingredients! Give me a prompt – a sentence, a picture, or just a bunch of random words on your mind. Please keep prompts PG13.
2) The recipe is all sonnets today, but they might be Spenserian, Shakespearean, or Italian sonnets. I promise they will all have 14 lines and rhyme.
3) One per person. Spread the word if you know somebody who would like their own creation!
4) Please share! You can reprint or link to the poem, simply give me credit and link to my journal, please.
You may tip if you wish.
If I receive $50 in tips, I will finish up a short story about the humans in the world of this poem about Dragon Samurai, and post it for all to read.
If I receive $100 in tips, I will write a long poem (ode, ballad, epic, or similar). Anybody will be able to suggest topics, but only donors will get a say (via poll) in which one I tackle!
If I have one new commenter (whether they donate or not), I will record myself singing this poem. (I've had nine new commenters since I put up the challenge.)
Requests will stay open for a day! REQUESTS CLOSED!
1) Give me ingredients! Give me a prompt – a sentence, a picture, or just a bunch of random words on your mind. Please keep prompts PG13.
2) The recipe is all sonnets today, but they might be Spenserian, Shakespearean, or Italian sonnets. I promise they will all have 14 lines and rhyme.
3) One per person. Spread the word if you know somebody who would like their own creation!
4) Please share! You can reprint or link to the poem, simply give me credit and link to my journal, please.
You may tip if you wish.
If I receive $50 in tips, I will finish up a short story about the humans in the world of this poem about Dragon Samurai, and post it for all to read.
If I receive $100 in tips, I will write a long poem (ode, ballad, epic, or similar). Anybody will be able to suggest topics, but only donors will get a say (via poll) in which one I tackle!
If I have one new commenter (whether they donate or not), I will record myself singing this poem. (I've had nine new commenters since I put up the challenge.)
Requests will stay open for a day! REQUESTS CLOSED!
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Date: 2011-03-07 11:21 pm (UTC)I'm feeling masky, so I give you this:
http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photofiles/list/454/828venetian_mask.jpg
as a prompt.
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Date: 2011-08-01 06:13 pm (UTC)It protects me, for I am weak
Like a bird within its shell
Freshly pipped, and now I peek
But stay inside where all is well.
I am brash when I speak
But the speaker is a lie;
A role to hide a freak,
But the truth is in my eye.
Do you know that I am meek?
The mask I wear is bold;
Its confidence I seek
But its skin is hard and cold.
The persona is a charmer,
But can I escape my armor?
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Date: 2011-11-07 05:54 pm (UTC)That's painfully on the money.
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Date: 2011-11-08 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-08 02:01 pm (UTC)