Prompt #16: Pwoermd
It’s past the mid-way point! Hurrah! Today’s small (but hardly simple) prompt is brought to you by Geof Huth, the force behind one-word poems (called pwoermd).
Then: Invent a word for a body part you do not have and consider the result a poem.
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Reminders for Participants: You can post your poem below in the comments, offer a link back to your site where the poem is posted, or comment about the experience of writing the poem (without actually posting the poem). If you’re going to comment on other participant’s poems, please remember that this is not a critique space — comments should be kept thoughtful and supportive. Lastly, remember you don’t have to use the prompt to write your poem — they’re here for your inspiration but they’re certainly not a requirement.
Let the Wild Poeming Being!
And, if you want to learn more awesome *real* words, follow @schottsvocab on twitter, or @oedonline which retweets schottsvocab’s Daily Lexeme and then adds words of its own from the OED. I don’t think I could make up some of these words. Great fun!
April 16, 2011 at 12:47 am
very cool!
April 16, 2011 at 9:09 am
many thanks for the twitter recommendations – some friends and I are word junkies
April 16, 2011 at 5:50 pm
sonshine
thanks for the twittertips, Tony, I’ll follow them!
April 16, 2011 at 1:36 am
- also sorry, I didn’t do the body part bit, got carried away by one-word poems!
Here it is in better font: http://nikkimagennis.blogspot.com/2011/04/pwoermds.html
April 16, 2011 at 2:14 am
hairdryad
April 16, 2011 at 4:14 am
Off-prompt today. I love my concept, but it did not work with my brain this early in the morning. Maybe I will try again tomorrow.
http://dorlamoorehouse.com/2011/04/16/napowrimo-day-16-4/
April 16, 2011 at 6:17 am
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A really fun and challenging prompt. Here’s my take:
http://jacquezyon.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/poem-16-pwoermd/
April 16, 2011 at 7:13 am
THE MOON WAS A GHOSTLY GALLEON
TOSSED UPON STORMY SEAS
Every third house was scattering the scent of jasmine
on an aimless Pacific breeze;
a fan palm rattled and muttered,
and blocks away, a barn owl sneezed, once.
We’d seen a not-too-noisy movie,
and, emerged to greet a night grown too enchanted
to stop for frothy chocolate or green tea ice cream.
It took a long time for my wife’s pale eyes
to find the moon in its scaffolding of cloud, or to trust her step
along the dark pavement. But her hand curled
in mine the whole April mile,
the moon advising us so wisely that we needed
nothing but its kindly lies to arrive safe at our silent door.
April 16, 2011 at 7:39 am
With full apologies for being a horny lout, obsessed by a definite Saturday-morning itch, my pwoermd:
Nipull
April 16, 2011 at 7:50 am
The first two tries didn’t take. Let’s see if this will work…
pheropolitic
tactilebox
cutikil
April 16, 2011 at 9:12 am
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http://sensualafflictions.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/16-wish-i-had-it-in-a-jar/
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April 16, 2011 at 11:35 am
Let’s see if this handles Unicode input…
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taiļ
With a bit more, um, background words at http://lovesgoodfood.com/jason/posts/Day_16_2011/ .
April 16, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Interesting what writing a poem every day for a couple week does to you. Wonder if he still reads my blog LOL.
Ah The Ex
Ah the ex.
Shows up when you least expect,
tries to be nonchalant.
Well, actually he doesn’t have to try
because he’s too clueless
to be anything else.
I’m not the same as
twenty-five ago
but you know what?
He’s old,
baggy and lined.
Don’t care where his
destination t-shirt came from.
I don’t have to be rude or anything to him.
He’s the ex for a reason.
Mary Beth Frezon 16 April 2011
http://www.artsroundup.com/wp/?p=2965
April 16, 2011 at 5:48 pm
holshite
April 16, 2011 at 6:16 pm
armagettin
April 16, 2011 at 7:01 pm
You got it, but are you gettin’ it?
April 16, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Huh just realized that Geof Huth lives not so far from me LOL – small world.
April 16, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Here it comes:
“Springle”
the part in my feet
that impels me to arise.
J. Pratt-Walter
April 16, 2011 at 10:04 pm
“Acceptabull”
Source of spinal reflex to
Dig in my heels
Stiffen my back
Redden my eyes
Scream defiance
When informed the intolerable is inevitable.
April 16, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Not on topic this time – I tried but everything I came up with was totally lame. So here’s something else:
http://thegermoftheidea.blogspot.com/2011/04/streaking-bravery.html
April 17, 2011 at 11:02 am