If you celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, I hope you enjoyed it! Today, it’s time to wake up from that turkey coma and get those entries in for “Poetry…Cubed!” before it wraps up this Monday!
Although I’ve explained the premise behind this challenge before, here are the very simple rules:
- Use the 3 images below as inspiration to write a poem.
- The poem can be any form, any number of lines, rhyming or not.
- The only hitch is that you need to include a reference to all three images in the poem – either via concrete imagery or something more abstract.
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Email your poem to me at Matt (at) MattForrest (dot) com before Nov. 30! Out of all the poems entered, ONE lucky writer will be chosen at random to receive his/her choice of:
- a) the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books) which was published earlier this year,
- b) the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science (Pomelo Books), which came out in 2014, or
- c) a handmade milkweed pod Christmas ornament (from right here in New Hampshire) similar to the ones in the photo.
Your three images (click to enlarge any of them):
Do you accept the challenge? I’ll post all the poems I’ve received and announce the winner next Friday, Dec. 4. Numerous poems have come in since last week, including a THIRD from Jessica Bigi, who’s on FIRE! Here are the most recent:
November
Autumn, in a bittersweet mood, once more
makes a puppet of me, puts me right here
next to the wood stove, makes me say
“I don’t know if the fire will catch,”
makes me turn and watch as the fire catches,
makes me turn back and clap my hands,
makes me say “Time for tea,” makes me dance
a little let’s-have-tea-by-the-fire two-step
just like last year and the year before.
I’m nothing in November if not predictable,
but it’s out if my hands, firmly in his:
Autumn, the puppeteer who paints the scenery,
pulls all my strings, knows all my lines,
and me, his well-loved marionette, his little toy.
– Julie Larios
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Writing a Cubed Poem
– Karen Eastlund
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Barbeque
Intermission
Tackle
Touchdown
Entertainment
Rally
Shout
Wallow
Evaluate
Enounced
Teams
F
O
O
T
B
A
L
L
Hot Coals
Under Feet
Go Team Go
– Jessica Bigi
Looking for more poetry? You’re in luck! Just head over to Carol’s Corner for the Poetry Friday roundup, with all of today’s links ready and waiting for you!
And be sure to send your poems to me at Matt (at) MattForrest (dot) com before this Mon. Nov. 30, to be eligible to win!
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More wonders from those three interesting pictures, Matt, that ‘Autumn puppeteer’, ‘Cubed fruits”, and ‘football ‘cubes under feet’ bring even more wonderful images. It was a great challenge.
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Thanks again for participating! As I’ve mentioned before, I love seeing all the varied imagery and perspectives that different people bring to the challenge…and that’s of course what poetry’s about!
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Again, some beautiful poems here, Matt. I especially love Julie’s unique take on November! Wonderful personification.
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I know what you mean – I told her I loved the puppet/puppeteer premise!
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Another wonderful group of poems hope every One had a nice Thanksgiving
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Thanks, Jessica – I hope you had a nice day, too!
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What a fun challenge!
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Thanks, Mary Lee – it’s certainly been fun reading the responses!
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More PF smiles thanks to you and the cubed poetry poets. I especially loved the rapid, lively football cheer beat and the acronym spelled:
Hot Coals
Under Feet
Go Team Go
…Yet, no Patriots hug from me! …When are they going to become human and lose?
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Glad you noticed Jessica’s acrostic – I neglected to alert readers to that! And you’ll have a chance to root against the Patriots’ in a couple days…although they’ll probably win again! 😉
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🙂
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Admission: Thought I’d be jubilant at the outcome of last night’s game. Truth is that a had a twinge of sadness when I heard the final score on the news this morning…I’m much more of a perfectionist than I like to admit. I’m sorry the season of perfection for the Patriots has ended…Conflicted…Go figure!
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Fun cube-ys, Matt! I’m swoony over Julie’s puppet poem.
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Wasn’t that great??
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Later to the party than ever, I came by tonight to see if I could tackle the Poetry Cubed challenge–and then I saw Julie’s poem and realized that it’s just not my time to shine. : ) Boy she really booted that one through the goal, and there are several other shiners too.
Enjoyed hearing all your news (so glad your eye is healing) and look forward to the wrap-up on Friday!
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Well, you still have a few hours to whip up a masterpiece, Heidi…and knowing you, you could do it! Thanks for dropping by, though, and I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!
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