Prompt Poem

Hello! Here’s an opposite poem.

Here is a poem that is opposite of Laura Riding.

I started a poem inspired by Campbell McGrath.

See Ezra Pound’s “Alba.”

From today’s notebook entry.

After “Heart” by Gregory Orr.

Continuing what I started yesterday…

I tried my hardest.

Started with Rilke and ended with this.

I tried to write this as a prose poem, but I’m not sure if it’s working.

Here’s one from yesterday.  Kind of playing catch up today.

Well, I kept forgetting…

I discovered that it is almost impossible to keep the shape of the rhyme and make the words opposite and have it make any sense. It is literally impossible to do this with the internal rhymes.

Here is my best attempt.

This came out of last week’s in-class writing.

This takes a word from every line of Kyle Dargan’s poem “Redefinition.”

This is loosely using facts from a NY Times article I found.

This poem came out of listing actions completed by myself and the world, and (re)arranging them.

I kept the first and last lines (almost). I kept the syntax, in places. It was impossible to keep the economy.

Blackboard messed up the formatting of these.

This is a rough draft.

After “White Apples” by Donald Hall.

Slightly revised.

Something from my notebook today.

This came out of last week’s in-class writing.

For this exercise I used Josh Bell’s “Ramona’s Theme” from his book No Planets Strike.  I highly recommend this book.

Today I found myself writing a poem about fall as I walked around, or something like that.

The words are from Olena Kalytiak Davis’ “The Weathered Houses on Ptarmigan Road” from And Her Soul Out of Nothing.

Opposite of (almost) every word.

Three transformations.

Another response poem.

Poem as a response to Yeats’s “Vacillation.”

Poem opposite Naomi Shihab Nye.

Poem written in response to a favorite line written as a question.

Poem composed with lines/images from four pages of notes.  I’m not sure if it makes perfect sense.  Should I cut it down more?

A found poem.

Inspired by Laura Jo!