Comments on: Unleash Your Inner Poet! http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/ Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:08:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Manga http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-124697 Manga Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:37:38 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-124697 [...]Thanks for sharing your work with us! Your theme is just awesome![...] [...]Thanks for sharing your work with us! Your theme is just awesome![...]

]]> By: Blog Segullah : The Tinker Stage http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-122095 Blog Segullah : The Tinker Stage Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:24:38 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-122095 [...] for our poetry contest here. As you revise your poems before submission, we recommend you read this post, by Sharlee Glenn, which explains the kind of poetry we’re looking for. You might also want to check out this [...] [...] for our poetry contest here. As you revise your poems before submission, we recommend you read this post, by Sharlee Glenn, which explains the kind of poetry we’re looking for. You might also want to check out this [...]

]]> By: Blog Segullah » Now Accepting Entries http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-24022 Blog Segullah » Now Accepting Entries Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:47:44 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-24022 [...] Writing Tips: Unleash Your Inner Poet Writing Tips: Weak Words Made Strong [...] [...] Writing Tips: Unleash Your Inner Poet Writing Tips: Weak Words Made Strong [...]

]]> By: Erica http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-5476 Erica Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:43:21 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-5476 Nepotism? Humph. I'll take my consolation prize in dimes, please. (And I no longer feel inspired to set my entries to music.) Nepotism? Humph. I’ll take my consolation prize in dimes, please. (And I no longer feel inspired to set my entries to music.)

]]> By: Sharlee http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-5463 Sharlee Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:13:17 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-5463 Beautiful! I just finished browsing Lola Haskins' website. Wow. Thanks for bringing this marvelous poet to our attention. Beautiful! I just finished browsing Lola Haskins’ website. Wow. Thanks for bringing this marvelous poet to our attention.

]]> By: annegb http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-5461 annegb Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:00:59 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-5461 I found this while looking for something else and I've been waiting for a chance to share it: (sorry it's not a limerik, and I didn't write it) To Play Pianissimo Does not mean silence. The absence ofmoon in the day sky for example. Does not mean barely to speak, the way a child's whisper makes only warm air on his mother's right ear. To play pianissimo is to carry sweet words to the old woman in the last dark row who cannot hear anything else, and to lay them across her lap like a shawl. by Lola Haskins Isn't that just so cool? I found this while looking for something else and I’ve been waiting for a chance to share it: (sorry it’s not a limerik, and I didn’t write it)

To Play Pianissimo

Does not mean silence.
The absence ofmoon in the day sky
for example.

Does not mean barely to speak,
the way a child’s whisper
makes only warm air
on his mother’s right ear.

To play pianissimo
is to carry sweet words
to the old woman in the last dark row
who cannot hear anything else,
and to lay them across her lap like a shawl.

by Lola Haskins

Isn’t that just so cool?

]]> By: Rick Walton http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-5456 Rick Walton Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:14:41 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-5456 I am touched and honored. And on behalf of dogs everywhere, I say, "Arf!" Rick (whose real genius lies in loku, i.e., really bad haiku) I am touched and honored. And on behalf of dogs everywhere, I say, “Arf!”

Rick (whose real genius lies in loku, i.e., really bad haiku)

]]> By: Sharlee http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-5451 Sharlee Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:16:45 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-5451 After hours of deliberation, my panel of distinguished judges (my three teenage sons) have made their decision. First, however, they had to remove their sister (and by extension, her friend Kati) from the running. "We can't sully the reputation of this first annual contest by opening ourselves up to accusations of nepotism," they said. (Sorry, darlin'. I'll send you 50 cents anyway. Would you like that in pennies, dimes, or quarters?) "It was very difficult to narrow it down to just one winner," said the judges. "We were overwhelmed by the quality of the entries." However, narrow it down they did. And the winner of the 2007 Well-Wrought Limerick Challenge is . . . (drum roll) "A Doggie Limerick" by Rick Walton! "Profound, meaningful, and funny," said the judges. Rick, your cash award and signed copy of "Fetid Growth" is in the mail. After hours of deliberation, my panel of distinguished judges (my three teenage sons) have made their decision. First, however, they had to remove their sister (and by extension, her friend Kati) from the running. “We can’t sully the reputation of this first annual contest by opening ourselves up to accusations of nepotism,” they said. (Sorry, darlin’. I’ll send you 50 cents anyway. Would you like that in pennies, dimes, or quarters?)

“It was very difficult to narrow it down to just one winner,” said the judges. “We were overwhelmed by the quality of the entries.”

However, narrow it down they did.

And the winner of the 2007 Well-Wrought Limerick Challenge is . . .

(drum roll)

“A Doggie Limerick” by Rick Walton! “Profound, meaningful, and funny,” said the judges.

Rick, your cash award and signed copy of “Fetid Growth” is in the mail.

]]> By: Linda HK http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-5421 Linda HK Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:15:44 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-5421 A poetess from the midwest Thinks rhyming and meter's a jest. She'll stretch out a vow-el 'Til dogs start to howwww-el If it makes the line fit with the rest! May the luck o' the Irish be with ye all! Linda HK A poetess from the midwest
Thinks rhyming and meter’s a jest.
She’ll stretch out a vow-el
‘Til dogs start to howwww-el
If it makes the line fit with the rest!

May the luck o’ the Irish be with ye all!
Linda HK

]]> By: b. http://segullah.org/writing-tips/unleash-your-inner-poet/#comment-5411 b. Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:17:18 +0000 http://segullah.org/blog/?p=131#comment-5411 My official entry for St. Patricks Day Limerick Oh Maybelline, my maybelline I've been so mean to my pink and green. I do not know what made me stray when you take so little of my pay. I stayed with pink and dropped the green Mary Kay's the "other woman" with whom I've been I am not gay, don't get me wrong The line just fit better in this song. My lashes have changed and the older I git The shorter they are, no more are they "it". They use to reach clear up to my brow People would say to me, "Tell me now, HOW?" They couldn't believe 'twasn't Clinique or Laud-er But it's definitely you dear, that I still prefer. So, I'm coming back from my wandering ways To you drug store mascara, for the rest of my days. When I see other women with fakes or extensions Some look like spiders or Tammy Faye or ANS (God rest her soul) a few just to mention(s). I'm glad I got you babe........just like Sonny and Cher I think you and me make a fabulous pair. As my tribute to you and this poem comes to an end I hope that somebody at your corporate office will read this and send me a years (make that two years) supply or maybe a big fat endorsement check or an honorable mention letter or something like that because I'm your friend. My official entry for St. Patricks Day Limerick
Oh Maybelline, my maybelline
I’ve been so mean to my pink and green.
I do not know what made me stray
when you take so little of my pay.
I stayed with pink and dropped the green
Mary Kay’s the “other woman” with whom I’ve been
I am not gay, don’t get me wrong
The line just fit better in this song.
My lashes have changed and the older I git
The shorter they are, no more are they “it”.
They use to reach clear up to my brow
People would say to me, “Tell me now, HOW?”
They couldn’t believe ’twasn’t Clinique or Laud-er
But it’s definitely you dear, that I still prefer.
So, I’m coming back from my wandering ways
To you drug store mascara, for the rest of my days.
When I see other women with fakes or extensions
Some look like spiders or Tammy Faye or ANS (God rest her soul) a few just to mention(s).
I’m glad I got you babe……..just like Sonny and Cher
I think you and me make a fabulous pair.
As my tribute to you and this poem comes to an end
I hope that somebody at your corporate office will read this and send me a years (make that two years) supply or maybe a big fat endorsement check or an honorable mention letter or something like that because I’m your friend.

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