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Found Poem - AmieTheir necks were broken.   
The dents in their backs  Looked like the prints of bare feet.  She glanced at his:  They were bare.   
“How did you do it?”  She asked her strange friend.   
“I saw it,”  Said another servant,  “They was coming at us, and  All of a sudden  He leaps up in the dark, and  Hits one in the back  With both feet,  Kicking out, like.  Then he did it to the other.  Then he jumped into the tree.”   
(From Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce, page 256) Found Poem - Amie
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Found Poem - MelodyLearning to Love a Recession   
…economists tell us  
      there are some reasons  
           to actually welcome  
              and perhaps even embrace a recession.  
After all, a recession  
    is the ebb part  
      of the natural ebb  
        and flow of the U.S. economy.  
Just as surely as hot markets cool  
   &nbs Found Poem - Melody
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Found PoemFound Poem - 7th Challenge   
Great and inspiring poems sometimes are not written by you; sometimes are not written as poetry at all. Instead, they are written as ads, emails, fortune cookies, letters, and recipes. Your job in this challenge is to seek out poetry around you and to break it up into lines of verse.  
 
Example:   
Learn How to Use Your Chopsticks   
Tuck under      thumb  and hold firmly   
Add second chopsticks      hold it as your hold      a pencil   
Hold first chopsticks  in Found Poem
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Haiku - DarienThe Devil   
Giving up your human emotion  is a dance with the devil  he wont cease to let you turn back Haiku - Darien
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Thu Jul 10, 2008, 4:04 AM
There is a new challenge posted. This is probably the last one - number 7. Might as well end this workshop since it has gotten down to just two or so of us responding. I would ask those of us who are still here to try at least to tag up and post a response to the challenges they have not responded to.

I may reopen the shop later when I can get another group interested and have the time to respond.

Thanks for reading this,
Ells

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*xpsychoticxinsanityx Jul 6, 2008, 5:16:21 AM
sorry i haven't been active for the past week or more, i was grounded for a bit there...

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~Rag-n-Bone-Shop Jun 20, 2008, 6:20:34 AM
I need some input here. Should we shut down this workshop? I just posted challenge six. However, looking at challenge FOUR we have two respondents besides your moderators, and none really in challenge five.

Has this become boring? Not what you thought you wanted to learn? What did you think a poetry workshop would be about? Too hard of work? Too embarrassing? Not enough attention? You may write directly here or post notes if you wish to do this privately.

All I know is that I am looking around and not seeing responses. What is causing that? I work 40 hours a week. I am tired at the end of the day, doing other things, too. And I am still writing along with the challenges, critiquing, and thinking up new challenges. So what is happening?

--Ellsworth Weaver
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*xpsychoticxinsanityx Jul 21, 2008, 8:20:17 AM
yes the workshop is falling slowly into the depths of the unused and of inactivity, but i think that part of the reason for this is the time-of-the-year. If, say you posted it in the fall, people would have school, yes, but i think that would make it easier for them to respond. during the summer things are all higgly-piggly and chaotic, but during school life tends to take on a more patterned streak. and not only for the younger people such as myself, but also for adults i acknowledged that during the summer my father (he works all yr round in a lab) tends to have a more scheduled life when the school time comes around.

Also, if you do make a new workshop i would like to be in it if that's okay (i think that even if you do the same challenges it would help because i would create all-new poems of course).

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*xpsychoticxinsanityx Jul 21, 2008, 8:22:07 AM
let me correct a mistake, i put "i acknowledged that during the summer my father (he works all yr round in a lab) tends to have a more scheduled life when the school time comes around." when i meant to say: my father tends to have a more random lifestyle during the summer and has a more scheduled life when school comes around.

~Amie

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*Neovolatile Jun 10, 2008, 3:05:07 AM
We have been encouraging people to critique each others' work. That is hard to do, I know. Oh, do I know that!

I offer a link here to a good guide to getting started. Please read it and leave a note to the author. Then make it a favorite if you wish. Come back to it and reread it. Try to write some constructive criticism of what you read here. Start with my poetry. I can use it. I can take it. I am not shy in telling you why I did something and usually will alter a piece if you have a good point.

Here is the link [link]

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My comments made with best intentions. Then again, the road to Hell is paved with them. Please visit my site and return the favor. Regards, Ells
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~raphaela67 Jun 12, 2008, 3:24:53 AM
Please comment and critique freely on my poems, too. I've never bitten a hand that typed suggestions, even when I didn't want to follow them. *G*

Don't worry about your lack of experience. A poem is only as good as the meaning it creates in a reader's mind. If something is hindering that transfer, then I need to know about it. The most important part of any attempt at communication is what is heard by the receiver, not what is meant by the sender. And if you find something in my words that I didn't intentionally put there, chances are I'll be delighted to know that I said more than I knew.

Melody
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~Lady-of-the-Damned Jun 10, 2008, 9:59:51 PM
Am I included as a member? I have a mote but completely forgot to put it up so I am not sure if I am still invited.

Kibeth

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~Rag-n-Bone-Shop May 26, 2008, 6:04:42 AM
If you wish to REVISE a poem, fine! Send me the revised poem complete as a NOTE and I will hang it up with the old one in the same folder.

Please do not ask me to strike the old one unless there was something that was insulting racially, ethnically, or otherwise to a group of human beings and you realize that now. If it is just an error in style, grammar, or poetics, it stands. OK? Your new one can be up here too if you like.

Ells
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