Casting Bricks
Jilly’s September Challenge!
Welcome, again, my Poetic Friends, to another round of Collaborative Poetry; I’m thrilled to have you here! It’s hard to believe that August is over already. We had such a great time writing Challenge Poems and completing one another’s words in the August Challenge. The link for August remains open, so you are certainly welcome to return there and complete any of the Challenges that were posted.
I am ready to getting September rolling and plan to get my Half Poem Challenge posted soon. I look forward to hosting the fun again this month. Here’s how it works:
- Write a half poem and post it to your blog with a link or tag back to this page (Jilly’s September Challenge).
- If your Challenge poem is a form (sonnet, quadrille, etc.) please state as such and give a quick review of the form or a link to a site that does that for you.
- Stop by here and add your Challenge link to our Mr. Linky.
- Find other Challenges that you would like to complete.
- Write the 2nd half of their poem and post the entire poem to your blog.
- Return here to our Mr. Linky again and post the link to that completed poem.
- You may also want to put a comment on the other person’s original Challenge post to let them know you have accepted their challenge.
- Spread the word! Extend the invitation to your other poet friends to join us. We are a crazy, friendly bunch, after all!
NOTE: In order to keep the links for Challenges (your half poem) different from the links for the Completed Poems, I suggest the following: When posting your Challenge half poem, post the name you would normally use along with the word ‘Challenge’ behind it. ex: Jilly Challenge.
When posting the link for a Completed Challenge, post your user name & the name of the person whose Challenge you completed. ex: Jilly Colin (if I am completing a challenge put out there by our good friend Colin Lee.)
There is no expiration on our Mr. Linky, so feel free to post new challenges and completed challenges throughout the month. Feel free to complete as many or as few challenges as you feel comfortable with. Most importantly, have fun & flex your poetic muscles! Cheers! ~ Jilly
LATE BREAKING NEWS: Qbit at The Quantumverse has suggested a Renga, which is a Japanese collaborative poem that involves many participants! Love the idea! He will take the lead with this, so watch for his Link called Qbit Renga Challenge and pay attention to the little details. This one will be great fun and a source of blogging confuddlement, but hey, what are we if not a bit crazy! 🙂
I love the idea of a renga! That would be a first for me.
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I know! How cool is that? Just waiting for Q to get it rolling. ☺
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Great! Sign up on the “Challenge” page and let’s see if we can get some more collaborators.
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Or create your own starter!
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The renga sounds like an interesting pattern for collaboration. On Monday, dVerse has its haibun prompt. I will link mine as the first half of a double haibun just to see if that form works as a collaboration.
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Oh, fun! Look forward to it!
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Awesome!!!
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Do you want to join me, nosaint, and colorful pen and we will kick my prompt off with the four of us?
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Yes, I’ll join you. I’ve never written renga before, but I like the idea of putting the contributions in the comment section. It seems easier to keep track of them that way.
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Great!!!
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OK, we’re up in a new post. nosaint first, Colorful, then you.
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Frank — do you want to join me, nosaint and colorful on the Jumpstart Renga? I think so, since I saw your likes and comments over there. Just confirm by reply to this and I’ll get us started.
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Yes, I’d like to join! I have some activities over this Labor Day weekend that will be taking me away from the computer, but I will try to add my part either in the morning or evening.
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OK, we’re ready for your first couplet,
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Haven’t tried a renga! Looking forward to that.
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Me, too!
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Sign up on the Challenge page. So far me, nosaint.
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Count you in with nosaint and me? Wait for one more?
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Q – are you keeping track here? Good. I’m in where ever – point me in the right direction.
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We have one working copy in Mr. Linky for you, me, Charlie, and Madaket. Looks like we will have another version for nosaint, colorful, me, and maybe Frank.
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Will head over there and take a look.
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Worth reading the Challenge page, but OK to just say here if you want to try it. My idea of “signup” hasn’t worked so far, LOL!
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I was a little lost, but I think I got it now. I’ll try it.
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OK, we’re up in a new post. nosaint next, then you.
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You should be good to go for the next stanza (5/7/5) here: https://qbit.blog/2017/09/02/renga-jumpstart-qbitnosaintcolorfulfrank/ Just reply to nosaint
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OK, I put the Renga Challenge in Mr. Linky. Now do we go back and forth on that copy of the prompt, or do I clone it for the Jilly/Charlie/Madaket/Qbit live version. E.g., leave the challenge open, but we craft our specific version? I think so, but don’t want to overcomplicate things.
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Multiplicity. Let’s Dolly it. I need the challenge.
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OK. I will post the working version and put it in Mr. Linky.
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Yay! I’m getting ready to post my Challenge, as well. Free verse.
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Thank goodness. We need an antidote to my plague of frogs!
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Ha! I’m totally lost in these threads because they all come to me. Y’all get this going while I have my Cars-in-the-freaking-shop-again nervous breakdown and a generous pour.
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Right. That was the idea of people signing up on my Challenge page. That didn’t get very far, LOL!
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Try not to let the fame go to your head.
(Oh, and Portofino spells is with an ‘ey’ but he is too nice to tell anyone that.)
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Sign me up on this jawn. We are just going in the order our names are added?
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Sure. Assuming you want to use the lead-off I’ve posted, you would go next. How many more people do you want in our round? Once we have them, I will launch and link the working post.
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Oh, I don’t have a preference, I guess however many want to join reasonably soon. Let me know when we are go!
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OK, I think we have me, you, probably colorful, and waiting to see if Frank wants in. Then I’ll kick it off.
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OK, we’re up in a new post. You go first.
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On it. How should we title additional posts?
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Just add your lines in the comments section of https://qbit.blog/2017/09/02/renga-jumpstart-qbitnosaintcolorfulfrank/
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Wait… all of the Haikum masters are in on this! No pressure, THERE! Hahaha!
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renga to me sounds like a new poetic genre. Something that will stick for all the masses and would want to jump on this new type of writing. 🙂
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Here is a link with more information: https://qbit.blog/2017/09/01/casting-bricks-renga-challenge-overview/
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I’ll check out the link. 🙂
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My Challenge Poem is posted! It is Free Verse, so do as you wish and have fun with it!
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Yay! Glad you are in!
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Did I just see my name called (winter, spring, summer or fall …)? Sorry to have popped in late, Jilly and folks. With two monkeys and a newborn princess, I just had a heck of a weekend and had to nap through my lunch break today in the factory. (Going to work is a treat indeed.) Slowly thawing my sleep-deprived brain, and will definitely be around reading and writing this month. 🙂
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Look forward to it, Colin! These are crazy, exhausting, and wonderful days for you, my friend.
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I’ve read a bit tonight. Speaking of crazy, you guys are poetic fanatics! How I love the energy and how you guys make it spontaneous and fun. Great job!
I’m soaking in thoughts and inspirations right now; hopefully in writing mode soon. 😉
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Fanatics! Best compliment all day.
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Your positivity is fanatically fantastical. 😛
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Here’s my attempt at your challenge: https://lifeinportofino.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/blue-bottle-whistle-stop/
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And here’s my attempt at Jenna’s challenge poem:
https://lifeinportofino.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/continue-to-carry-on/
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Hi Charley! I’ll stop by and read as soon as I finish her poem.
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Hi, Jenna! Yey! I got to complete a challenge – the one by Carley. 🙂
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Hi Imelda, Jilly here. So glad you joined in! I will be around to read soon. I live in Florida, so post Irma clean-up is keeping me busy.
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Oh oh, I am glad you’re ok. I hope everything is ok after the storm. I used to live in that kind of weather, too, when I was still in the Philippines.
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Yes, we are well. Lots of clean up. You know the insanity of it.
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I have posted another challenge — a Renga challenge.
https://lifeinportofino.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/renga-challenge-on-the-road-of-ashes/
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Woo Hoo! Will take a look at it in the morning.
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My challenge posted:
https://pescetarianpoet.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/vernal-flutter/
Should be an easy one. Cheers, everyone!
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Hooray!
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Here is my completion of Colin’s challenge: https://lifeinportofino.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/dandelions-rhymes-colincharley/
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Awesome! I won’t read your completion of Colin’s poem until I finish it, just to keep my mind clear. Look forward to reading soon.
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