Sunday, March 27, 2011

Prompt 161: Hollow

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Prompt 160: Sarcastic

This week's prompt is sarcastic. The Online Etymology Dictionary tells us this about the word:

sarcasm
1570s, from L.L. sarcasmos, from Gk. sarkasmos "a sneer, jest, taunt, mockery," from sarkazein "to speak bitterly, sneer," lit. "to strip off the flesh," from sarx (gen. sarkos) "flesh," prop. "piece of meat," from PIE base *twerk- "to cut" (cf. Avestan thwares "to cut"). Sarcastic is from 1690s. For nuances of usage, see humor.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

We Have a Pi-Ku Contest Winner!

Kim Nelson of Kim Nelson Writes is the winner of the random drawing for our Pi-Ku contest yesterday! She is the winner of a framed 4x6 image of her pi-ku on a photograph. Congratulations, Kim! Her poem appears below.

At this time, because of the interest, I would like to give you warning of the Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Tau-Ku Challenge. This will be one day only! And again, a random winner will be drawn. Your poem does not have to be about math. What is tau? Tau is two pi, or approximately 6.28 (which is why June 28 is Tau Day). The rules of the contest:

  • The topic is your choice.
  • The format is:
    • 1st line: 6 syllables
    • 2nd line: 2 syllables
    • 3rd line: 8 syllables
  • Use the inlinkz so that I can have inlinkz choose a random winner.
  • Sorry — only one entry per person!

And that’s it!

Everyone’s pi-ku were so lovely that I am going to collect them all in one spot and post them as soon as possible. I hope you had fun with this challenge.

Have a great week!

Andrée

Kim’s Pi-Ku

Babies loved
Grow
To Earth's bright lights

    Monday, March 14, 2011

    Pi-Ku Contest: Today Only!


    En Syu Ritsu (The Circle Ratio)

    from A Challenge for Pi Day: Write Your Own Pi-ku:

    Tomorrow Today is March 14, 3/14, 3.14, or as it's known to many unlikely to have other plans, Pi Day. I'm learning about a few ways Pi Day is celebrated by so-called mathletes. There are pie contests and pizza parties. Those who can recite more than just three digits do so out loud to no one in particular, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco holds an all-day celebration. And some people, we understand, write pi-ku—haiku about pi. I say we take it one step nerdier and make new rules.

    First line: 3 syllables
    Second line: 1 syllable
    Third line: 4 syllables

    I hereby challenge all poets to create a Pi-ku for today. You may leave it in the comments or add your link below. I'm working on mine as I bake my apple pie! Let's have some fun! As an added incentive, I will use the powers of inlinkz to draw a random winner tomorrow morning. I am devising a rare, one-of-a-kind surprise prize that you will cherish forever! So get your pens and pencils moving!

    You don’t need to love math to love Pi Day!

    Sunday, March 13, 2011

    Prompt 159: Passionate

    Thanks to Joseph Harker of Naming Constellations for this week's prompt, passionate, and this poem:
    Aesthetics

    This was the discovery of fire: when I,
    for the sake of Art, held out that plump round fruit
    and you snapped a bite with those perfect white teeth,

    juice seeping from the corners of your lips. So red,
    that we had to invent new words for it (oxblood, scarlet,
    red of the screaming center of the hurricane rose)

    and I took one slender finger to trace the droplets
    around your skin. I predicted Pollock. I felt creation
    rise in me like the lightning that comes in the evening,

    dripped it down your naked chest, following hair-trails,
    musculature, hipbone: that was what we found when
    we took the lightning in both hands. It smoldered into

    twin desires, twisted into the ladder of our DNA:
    skin sliding over skin, the thirst for sweat and friction,
    and color corrupting color, a need to re-create things

    in our image. Arrangement of forms animates me. I am
    one long paintbrush: the fruit bleeding knowledge
    is my choice of expression trickling down your belly:

    and if you'll permit, I'll call your skin my canvas,
    making it up as I go along, letting myself burn from the
    inside out, killing so many birds with one cometary stone.
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    Sunday, March 6, 2011

    Prompt 158: Accidental

    The prompt this week, from Rinkly Rimes, is Accidental!

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    Thursday, March 3, 2011

    Another New Season Already? New Prompts!

    DATE PROMPT CONTRIBUTOR

    March 6 - 12, 2011

    Accidental

    Rinkly Rimes

    March 13 - 19, 2011

    Passionate

    Joseph Harker

    March 20 - 26, 2011

    Sarcastic

    Priyanka Bhowmick

    March 27 - April 2, 2011

    Hollow

    Leo

    April 3 - 9, 2011

    Epidemic

    Gaurang Rao

    April 10 - 16, 2011

    Reciprocate

    Eric "Bubba" Alder

    April 17 - 23, 2011

    Shackles

    Ramesh Sood

    April 24 - 30, 2011

    Place

    Yamini Meduri

    May 1 - 7, 2011

    Border

    Gautami Tripathy

    May 8 - 14, 2011

    Love

    Harshad Mehta

    May 15 - 21, 2011

    Exhibition

    The Write Girl

    May 22 - 28, 2011

    Rambling

    Gerry/Strummed Words

    May 29 - June 4, 2011

    Manifest

    Geraldine

    June 5 - 11, 2011

    Endure

    Teri C

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