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Friday, June 18, 2010

POW PROMPT 8

PROMPT 8 ...POETRY ON WEDNESDAY

We have been up and running for two months already . Doesn't time whizz by? I am huddled here in furs and you lot are sipping cool drinks by the pool enjoying the cicadas. So, to celebrate your summer, next week's poem is called ' Twilight in Summer '. Choose a piece of music that
expresses summer twilight and put it on for next week. Make sure it is on you tube so that we can listen to it while reading your poem. Oh, and I almost forgot....in terza rima sonnet form please.
I think this is easier than the Shakespearean or the Petrarchan sonnet form...good one for those who have not written a sonnet before. The use of iambic pentameter is optional. Viv and I wrote some examples of IP in the last post as examples. Looking forward to discovering your musical tastes and as always your interesting and enjoyable poetry .
Ciao
Rallentanda
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17 comments:

  1. flaubertJune 18, 2010 at 6:55 AM

    Rall
    Form and music this should be interesting.
    Great prompt!
    Pamela

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  2. angieJune 18, 2010 at 8:01 AM

    uh-oh!
    stretching my comfort zone again.
    thanks, rall -- I think!

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  3. MarianneJune 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM

    Gasp!!! Um, good one, Rall! I've got the song, now to create a terza rima sonnet!

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  4. barbaraJune 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    that screech you heard came from the opposite side of the universe..... I was buzzing along just fine: music, nice okay. youtube, good idea, a little limiting but fine.
    ohgodterzarima
    sigh

    (my bwp wordle poem is summer twilight)

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  5. J. D. MackenzieJune 18, 2010 at 4:19 PM

    Well, here we go again! Reminds me of the quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "one's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
    Time to start stretching!

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  6. rallentandaJune 18, 2010 at 7:38 PM

    Everyone on POW has out of shape elastic minds
    anyway (thankfully)See you Wednesday bello mio!

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  7. rallentandaJune 18, 2010 at 10:51 PM

    Well Babzikins, somebody did say that she wanted practice in sonnet writing and I do aim to please my tribe!

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  8. Stan SkiJune 19, 2010 at 5:49 PM

    Thank you for the music.
    Wot? More Italian?
    Mama mia - here we go again.
    Play some Abba, Sweeney...?

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  9. rallentandaJune 19, 2010 at 6:31 PM

    You jest I hope, Stanski. A little Polonaise perhaps!

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  10. Stan SkiJune 19, 2010 at 7:06 PM

    You mean like...

    Szła dzieweczka do laseczka.
    Do zielonego - ha, ha.
    ...?

    Sweeney is/was a local radio DJ in Manchester.
    The Abba line was his catchphrase. Don't think he ever played any...

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  11. rallentandaJune 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM

    I am pleased to note that some of you are very enthusiastic about this prompt. A person who shall remain nameless is so excited that she
    has submitted 100 summer songs for the prompt.
    ...just a tad excessive I think!

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  12. vivienne blakeJune 20, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    And if we don't know how to get a u-tube to listen to, let alone post with the poem?
    Yours, puzzled old bat,
    ViV

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  13. rallentandaJune 20, 2010 at 5:23 PM

    OK POB ...google the name of the song with youtube after it and it will come up as a video to click on.If you don't know how to to get it on your site just put the correct title in your post and we will find it ourselves.
    e,g John Williams Prelude no.3 Villa Lobos.

    I do not know how to do it properly . As you can see my videos keep morphing into some other
    rubbish and you have to wait to get the correct video. When you find out how to do it
    properly this POB would appreciate the information.

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  14. Stan SkiJune 20, 2010 at 7:19 PM

    I did this;
    Googled Artist + Title
    Clicked on video
    Copied link and pasted to my blog.
    You have to watch the video separately, or open another window.

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  15. rallentandaJune 21, 2010 at 3:31 AM

    Thanks Stanski kochanie, I'll try that.Hope those Polish words of yours don't say Rall is a silly ole bat ha ha. I haven't had time to check them yet.
    Do... a deer a Polish deer
    zielo...Poles can never pronounce yellow
    nego...a negative nudnik
    Good language for transliteration!

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  16. barbaraJune 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM

    Viv, if you need details on how to add a youtube clip in wordpress, I can send them to you.
    briarcat@gmail.com

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  17. vivienne blakeJune 21, 2010 at 11:23 AM

    Thanks barbara - I've emailed you.

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