Tag: prompt
member name: James Ciriaco
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December 15, 2007 12:10 AM EST --
Laurels
Twig of consolation, sickly and covetous evergreen,
How can you satisfy?
Phoebus Apollo might make you graceful, that god overlooking an eternity of nymphs;
Your venom might spangle the . . .
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November 08, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
Please Find Enclosed
Call it a chest or a cube, a puzzle box or a die cast.
I don't know. It has no head or tail,
This hard, bright menagerie that turns one face as squarely as the next. . . .
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November 23, 2007 02:04 PM EST --
Autumn Struggles in Gorgas Park
Here on this spit of ground
Above a lake of tarnished rooftops,
Antenna eddies and shoals of satellite dishes,
The earth scatters its harmony of green. . . .
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January 02, 2008 10:41 PM EST --
This poem follows the form of the Japanese tan renga: two stanzas, the first consisting of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively; the second a stanza of two lines, both of which . . .
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October 21, 2007 04:26 PM EDT --
Percussion, salt and honey,
A quivering in the thighs;
He shakes me all over again,
Eros who cannot be thrown,
Who stalks on all fours
Like a beast.
--Sappho
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November 27, 2007 02:27 PM EST --
How I Broke My Eyeglasses: The Poem
I walked into a door and broke my eyeglasses.
Then I wrote a poem about it.
This is that poem.
Only I thought that just three lines might be kind of cheap . . .
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January 06, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
All good things must come to an end, and that time has come for the Indecent Proposal. We received only one entry over this bi-weekly period-- thank you, Zara, for your continued support-- . . .
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November 25, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
First of all, Corinna and I want to congratulate every one of this week's entrants. You've taken a difficult picture prompt and done wonders with it; all of the entries were strong, in . . .
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November 04, 2007 12:37 PM EST --
We've had another strong week at Indecent Proposal! Corinna and I were impressed by the breadth of creativity in this week's entries; they range in style from rhyming verse to prose, and . . .
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November 11, 2007 01:59 PM EST --
There weren't many entries for this week's Indecent Proposal Erotica Challenge, but Corinna and I were gratified by the quality of the pieces we did receive. Each had its own unique . . .
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December 09, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
Is it hot in here? Our bi-weekly theme of "surrender" seems to have unleashed a torrent of creative energy; we've had sultry, searching entries on a variety of subjects from vampirism . . .
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December 23, 2007 03:26 PM EST --
Our seventh prompt-- Gerome's beautiful harem painting-- was something of a challenge, but I'm delighted to see that several of you rose to it. There were only three entries this time . . .
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November 18, 2007 02:31 PM EST --
Once again we've been blessed by a strong showing of work. All of our entries this week were poems, but the stylistic range was remarkable; Corinna and I haggled over pieces that were narrative . . .
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