Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #1 -2

[jjhunter]

For Writers:

Challenge #1: Write a poem of any kind using one of the following opening lines*:

• They chopped down the lazy tree last Friday
• He made time from spinning seconds collected from door jambs
• it was enough to make an alien weep

Inspired by stillnotbored’s monthly first line contest where people submit first stanzas of poems using that month’s first line.

* There was no one clear winner from the Potential Opening Lines poll; these are the two tied for first and the immediate runner up.

For Readers:

Challenge #2: Comment, if you haven’t already, on at least one post from this week (3/12 - 3/17) or this upcoming week, and add a new comment of length (three or more sentences) on an older post not tagged '!admin' to the community with fewer than three comments as of this post.

Among those eligible are the following:

• vom_marlowe’s Poetry Complements: Wallace Stevens Roundtable Intro and Commentary
• Luisa A. Igloria’s Reading Plato - 'Some Poems I love Best'
• dave_bonta’s Poem: "How Glass Breaks: Four Theories"
• ysabetwordsmith’s Poem: "Shine On"
• David C. Kopaska-Merkel’s Poem: "Réanimation Medicale"

The winner for each week’s writing challenge will be chosen by a rotating volunteer from the community. (This week’s volunteer judge is bookblather. Thank you, bookblather!) The winner for the reader’s challenge will be chosen randomly among all those who successfully complete the challenge. Winners will be offered the choice of either a personal haiku written for them or 15 Dreamwidth points. While anyone is welcome to accept and complete either or both challenges, the following people are not eligible for winning: this week’s judge (ineligible for winning Challenge #1; eligible for winning Challenge #2); last week’s winners (ineligible for winning whichever challenge they won last week); the winner of Challenge #1 (ineligible for winning Challenge #2); and the POETREE admins, jjhunter & alee_grrl (ineligible for winning either challenge).

Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with links to your poem or comments; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge.

The deadline for both challenges is Friday, March 23rd, 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be announced that Sunday.

Comments

[ariestess]

Quick question... Do we put our poems in a comment here or separate posts? *is curious and having thinky thoughts*

[jjhunter]

Posting on your own journal & commenting with a link is best, though you are welcome to put the poem in the content of the comment only if you prefer to not put it up on your journal.

[bookblather]

Pleased to help!

my comment for challenge 2

[jjhunter]

Thank you for participating!

[ailelie]

Not a great poem, but here's my contribution for challenge #1.
http://ailelie.dreamwidth.org/353402.html

[jjhunter]

Thank you for participating!

[ariestess]

My poem offering for challenge #1 :: "Know Your History"

[jjhunter]

Thank you for participating!

challenge #1 entry: Tempus

[jjhunter]

Note to judge: this entry is ineligible to win as per guidelines because author is a comm admin.

Tempus, which uses the line "He made time from spinning seconds collected from door jambs"

Response Challenge #1

[alee_grrl]

Note to judge: this entry is ineligible to win as per guidelines because author is a comm admin.

Not eligible for winning, but I liked the challenge so I decided to do it anyway. Anything to get me writing some more. :) You can find my answer to Challenge #1 here. I used the first line "They chopped down the lazy tree last Friday."