One a Day in May: Spring Cleaning

[annaswirls]

Intent of this thread:

Polish one previously written poem per day for the month of May.


I know there are several of us right now not in the zone for writing new poems. Let's get together and write anyway!

Details:

• You may post the original poem and the revision, but it is not necessary.
• Number your poems in the subject line 1 through 31.
• No expectation to critique other's work unless you are moved to do so. This is mostly about a personal journey through your own work.
  • If someone decides to give suggestions, please say Thank You but do not feel the need to defend your work or pressure to critique theirs. There is another thread for in depth critique.
  • If you do not want critique or suggestions, please make it be known.

• Put all comments about this thread right here. It won't get too big in a month.
• Cheerleading highly encouraged. No, don't feel you have to say "great poem" if you do not mean it. Encourage the process and the person.
• Threadjacking highly encouraged. Especially if designed to distract the participants.
• If you miss a day, you can make it up by editing more later, as long as you have 31 poems edited by the end of May.

Please join me. No pressure here, just the encouragement that comes with a pack. Make your commitment by April 30. Unlike the 30/30 thread, I will hunt you down if you drop out.

 

[champagne1982]

Does this mean we get to call you Anna Fudd? Shhhhhh. That wascally wabbit's wound hehw somewhehw.

I'll play.

 

[annaswirls]

Does this mean we get to call you Anna Fudd? Shhhhhh. That wascally wabbit's wound hehw somewhehw.

I'll play.

Whoohooo!!!!! A playmate!!!

Anna Fudd? Gosh, I must really present myself as a great intimidator!

 

[normal jean]

Anna!!!! super duper love you miss you precious friend hugs!!!!!


Yes, it is a most beautiful idea, and coming from your mind, makes it even better.

Damnit, woman, I have missed you so bad!! --ly

I'm in



NJ

 

[Guest]

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[annaswirls]

Anna!!!! super duper love you miss you precious friend hugs!!!!!


Yes, it is a most beautiful idea, and coming from your mind, makes it even better.

Damnit, woman, I have missed you so bad!! --ly

I'm in



NJ

Hey sugar booger! I am so excited you are going to come and play!!! Promise there will be some tomatoes or amphibians

I miss you too. This will be a good thing, working side by side

 

[annaswirls]

I'd like to be in, but I don't think I will be able to participate fully. I have some family stuffs going on right now. Though, I'd love the distraction.

Hey sweetness! I hope your family stuffs are good stuff... like Oreo double stuff....

I think you should start and then not finish so I can come and get you. It has been so long I forget what a distraction is...

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Oh what an excellent idea.

I have trouble posting first drafts; it's not my style. But I was actually thinking just last night about maybe doing the 30/30 with the acknowledgment that I was going to cheat and put up later drafts, just to motivate me to finish some stuff.

So this is perfect! Even better and exactly what I was looking for and everything!

It'll be suspenseful too, cause May is the month where we do our big big big weekend-long fundraiser that eats my whole life. So doing this too will keep me very focused. I chose 'in it to win it' even though I have neither the intention nor desire to win anything. Except vilification (heading to the whipping boy thread next).

Woot! Thanks, Anna!

bj

 

[loststar]

I'm in but be forworned my poetry is definatly in the needs lots of revision stages

 

[Anschul]

I'd love to play, but if you take away all those stupid haikus (faux poetry) I wrote when I first found this poetry insanity, I don't have thirty-one poems. Can I use the same one thirty-one times? I can come up with thirty-one versions of the pornosuessery--and wouldn't that be fun?--I might not finish, but who would care? Besides, the thought of Anna coming after me would make me recite the damn thing in sixteen languages. Maybe I could translate it into thirty-one languages. Thirty-one flavors?

* stumbles away babbling verses of mint-chocolate Suess *

 

[CeriseNoire]

I'd love to play, but if you take away all those stupid haikus (faux poetry) I wrote when I first found this poetry insanity, I don't have thirty-one poems. Can I use the same one thirty-one times? I can come up with thirty-one versions of the pornosuessery--and wouldn't that be fun?--I might not finish, but who would care? Besides, the thought of Anna coming after me would make me recite the damn thing in sixteen languages. Maybe I could translate it into thirty-one languages. Thirty-one flavors?

* stumbles away babbling verses of mint-chocolate Suess *

I was thinking the same thing. If only I had 31 poems (I am not going to dig into the high school horrors I wrote).

I suppose I might have enough if I try to translate some of my old French poems...

 

[champagne1982]

I'd love to play, but if you take away all those stupid haikus (faux poetry) I wrote when I first found this poetry insanity, I don't have thirty-one poems. Can I use the same one thirty-one times? I can come up with thirty-one versions of the pornosuessery--and wouldn't that be fun?--I might not finish, but who would care? Besides, the thought of Anna coming after me would make me recite the damn thing in sixteen languages. Maybe I could translate it into thirty-one languages. Thirty-one flavors?

* stumbles away babbling verses of mint-chocolate Suess *

If you don't have 31 to revise, feel free to go back to the first time I did the 30/30 and you can borrow from there . I won't mind a different eye editing annnnd you may design something totally unexpected.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

If you don't have 31 to revise, feel free to go back to the first time I did the 30/30 and you can borrow from there . I won't mind a different eye editing annnnd you may design something totally unexpected.

Hey, that's a pretty good challenge idea in and of itself.

Pick any 30/30 submission and respond to it with your own piece. There are some pretty moving things in there, and a great deal to choose from.

bj

 

[champagne1982]

I was thinking the same thing. If only I had 31 poems (I am not going to dig into the high school horrors I wrote).

I suppose I might have enough if I try to translate some of my old French poems...

Same goes for you sweet heels ... It could be fun. I won't be insulted or even think it an imposition. Honestly, I feel secure enough to offer simple because I admire anyone who wants to tackle the exercise in the first place. Besides, I've read both yours and Chefalooza's poems and I like your style(s).

p.s. Not that there's anything wrong with you translating from your French language poems. Post the original and then translate. That would be a freakin' challenge and a half. One day translating, two days edit. You don't need 31 poems. You just need to work on poems for 31 days.

 

[CeriseNoire]

Same goes for you sweet heels ... It could be fun. I won't be insulted or even think it an imposition. Honestly, I feel secure enough to offer simple because I admire anyone who wants to tackle the exercise in the first place. Besides, I've read both yours and Chefalooza's poems and I like your style(s).

p.s. Not that there's anything wrong with you translating from your French language poems. Post the original and then translate. That would be a freakin' challenge and a half. One day translating, two days edit. You don't need 31 poems. You just need to work on poems for 31 days.

Thanks

I'll probably end up doing a little of both.

 

[Anschul]

Same goes for you sweet heels ... It could be fun. I won't be insulted or even think it an imposition. Honestly, I feel secure enough to offer simple because I admire anyone who wants to tackle the exercise in the first place. Besides, I've read both yours and Chefalooza's poems and I like your style(s).

p.s. Not that there's anything wrong with you translating from your French language poems. Post the original and then translate. That would be a freakin' challenge and a half. One day translating, two days edit. You don't need 31 poems. You just need to work on poems for 31 days.

You know, here's another interesting thought...I'm actually attempting to write 30 sonnets in 30 days (I am finishing up number three as we speak--so to speak), and with a few days between original posts, and with the creative process still relatively fresh, I might actually want to revisit the sonnets written approximately a week earlier, and give them a fresh look.
Oy vey, am I a masochist, or what?
But you're generous, and because I love the hour or so I spend here every day, I will attempt something, in addition to the daunting task I've set myself up for on 30/30.
We may be eating some fast food over in the Bistro for a few weeks. Hope BJ doesn't mind. I also might have to release her from her slavery obligation to me, so that I have enough energy left to push the keys on this miserable computer.

 

[annaswirls]

Groovy! Glad you will play along (work along?)

And certainly, no one is really in it to "win" anything, just the rights to way whoohooo! I made it! Not first, second, best or anything, just the thrill of getting there. Minutes after I posted the poll, I thought, jeez, someone is going to make a comment about the "win it" option

I am with you on the fundraiser thang--- we just started a new non-profit that is keeping me reeling but excited to make things a little more right with the world.

Most of the poems I plan to polish are not first drafts either. I plan to pull poems that have been published.

Looking forward to working alongside of you!

Oh what an excellent idea.

I have trouble posting first drafts; it's not my style. But I was actually thinking just last night about maybe doing the 30/30 with the acknowledgment that I was going to cheat and put up later drafts, just to motivate me to finish some stuff.

So this is perfect! Even better and exactly what I was looking for and everything!

It'll be suspenseful too, cause May is the month where we do our big big big weekend-long fundraiser that eats my whole life. So doing this too will keep me very focused. I chose 'in it to win it' even though I have neither the intention nor desire to win anything. Except vilification (heading to the whipping boy thread next).

Woot! Thanks, Anna!

bj

 

[annaswirls]

that would be a very cool excercize for you to re-write your poem 31 times! Okay, well, maybe 5 times.... try it in different form, fuck around with line breaks, make rhyme take rhyme away, turn a haiku into a limerick? why not? Besides, no reason you cannot write one in the beginning of May and revise it in the middle. Tis okay. I wil not check copyright dates... besides, you can come along for part of the ride.... just stick out your thumb.... eh hem... I said Thumb and climb in.

I'd love to play, but if you take away all those stupid haikus (faux poetry) I wrote when I first found this poetry insanity, I don't have thirty-one poems. Can I use the same one thirty-one times? I can come up with thirty-one versions of the pornosuessery--and wouldn't that be fun?--I might not finish, but who would care? Besides, the thought of Anna coming after me would make me recite the damn thing in sixteen languages. Maybe I could translate it into thirty-one languages. Thirty-one flavors?

* stumbles away babbling verses of mint-chocolate Suess *

 

[annaswirls]

I was thinking the same thing. If only I had 31 poems (I am not going to dig into the high school horrors I wrote).

I suppose I might have enough if I try to translate some of my old French poems...

Either of these sounds cool! To try to capture what you were trying to express as a high school kid with the experience and refined skills of an adult... and the translation too! Either sounds like a great challenge! Give it a shot

 

[annaswirls]

Same goes for you sweet heels ... It could be fun. I won't be insulted or even think it an imposition. Honestly, I feel secure enough to offer simple because I admire anyone who wants to tackle the exercise in the first place. Besides, I've read both yours and Chefalooza's poems and I like your style(s).

p.s. Not that there's anything wrong with you translating from your French language poems. Post the original and then translate. That would be a freakin' challenge and a half. One day translating, two days edit. You don't need 31 poems. You just need to work on poems for 31 days.

Yeah, I think it would be best to stick to working on your old work, one way or another. It might be interesting to go through old letters/email and turn them into poetry....

 

[annaswirls]

yep. nothing wrong with working on the 30/30 poems. When I did that it was sheer survival, none of them are anywhere NEAR finished!!! I might go through the thread to see if anything I wrote there is worth saving.....

looking forward to seeing what you do!

J

You know, here's another interesting thought...I'm actually attempting to write 30 sonnets in 30 days (I am finishing up number three as we speak--so to speak), and with a few days between original posts, and with the creative process still relatively fresh, I might actually want to revisit the sonnets written approximately a week earlier, and give them a fresh look.
Oy vey, am I a masochist, or what?
But you're generous, and because I love the hour or so I spend here every day, I will attempt something, in addition to the daunting task I've set myself up for on 30/30.
We may be eating some fast food over in the Bistro for a few weeks. Hope BJ doesn't mind. I also might have to release her from her slavery obligation to me, so that I have enough energy left to push the keys on this miserable computer.

 

[LeBroz]

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And I just love PandoraGlitters' vote on the poll — all of the above!

Who says poets don't have a sense of humor?

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[WickedEve]

Polish one previously written poem per day for the month of May.


I know there are several of us right now not in the zone for writing new poems. Let's get together and write anyway!

I am going to give this a shot since I have so many older poems that need a tune up. I saved all my poems that were posted on lit and even saved the comments. Some of the comments offered suggestions for improvement. It's time to give them a try.
How's the baby? How many months is he now?

 

[annaswirls]

Yeah! I am so glad you are going to join in, I am looking forward to seeing your work again

I saved a lot of comments too, when I did a mass delete. I should go back and look them over again-- good idea

Baby is great, a real sweetie, thanks for asking! He is almost 4 months old, doing everything he is "supposed" to do. Wish he slept a little longer at night, but he is a baby afterall. Sometimes I am really overwhelmed by the reality of being mother to baby. I saw a friend for the first time since he was born and I said Oh my god I have a DIAPER BAG! eh hem.

but it really is all good. the big boys are doing well with it. O does not like when he cries and says "Give that baby a boob!" Of course, I used this to trick O into giving him a bottle The av is temporary (something about putting my kids on a porn site seems kind of odd) but it is baby with his middle brother

I am going to give this a shot since I have so many older poems that need a tune up. I saved all my poems that were posted on lit and even saved the comments. Some of the comments offered suggestions for improvement. It's time to give them a try.
How's the baby? How many months is he now?

 

[WickedEve]

Yeah! I am so glad you are going to join in, I am looking forward to seeing your work again

I saved a lot of comments too, when I did a mass delete. I should go back and look them over again-- good idea

Baby is great, a real sweetie, thanks for asking! He is almost 4 months old, doing everything he is "supposed" to do. Wish he slept a little longer at night, but he is a baby afterall. Sometimes I am really overwhelmed by the reality of being mother to baby. I saw a friend for the first time since he was born and I said Oh my god I have a DIAPER BAG! eh hem.

but it really is all good. the big boys are doing well with it. O does not like when he cries and says "Give that baby a boob!" Of course, I used this to trick O into giving him a bottle The av is temporary (something about putting my kids on a porn site seems kind of odd) but it is baby with his middle brother

He has a serious look on his face, like he's deep in thought. Or he wants his big brother to stop kissing him. lol
Yeah, saving the comments was a good thing. I have comments from reltne, ydd, 1201, Pat, etc. Really good stuff.

Edited to add a couple more names to my list: darkmaas and jthserra. Getting comments from any of these guys I've listed (I know there are more) really made sharing poetry an incredible experience.