Comments on: “Think In Ways You’ve Never Thought Before”

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:31:55 +0000

You have no idea how much I need this idea right now. I’ve been so immersed in low-energy crap…missing the creative side of things. I shall accept your challenge…and remind myself that the challenge is simply to WRITE…not necessarily to write WELL.

By: Do

Do — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:22:09 +0000

a morning poem
every day for the rest
of September time

that’s beautiful. i’m part. thanks for the inspiration. and smile. what precious timing. the one for today, i wrote it even before i read about this plan.

By: wendy cook

wendy cook — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:19:03 +0000

dear fellow poetry lover,
this is one of my favorite posts. thank you for sharing bly’s witty tips and the extraordianry poem which began my day in the most beautiful way.
~w

By: liz elayne

liz elayne — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:22:45 +0000

oh i am jealous. so very jealous.

love this idea.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:22:15 +0000

I needed an excuse to write more poetry. I will join you on this challenge , yet I am just going to leave it to “writing a poem a day for the rest of September”. I will post the good ones.

Thank you for the inspiration.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:19:34 +0000

Um, okay. I think I will, so there! I keep hearing poetry on the radio (Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac on NPR) and thinking, “I can SO DO THAT.) So, definitely, for the rest of September, I will scribble down a poem.

So fun and scary all at the same time - poetry is dangerous like that!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:15:55 +0000

So fun and scary all at the same time - poetry is dangerous like that!

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:14:54 +0000

“Has risen out of the lake, and he’s carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you’ve never seen.”

Love those lines.

I am very self conscious when it comes to writing poetry.

But I might join you:)

By: lizardek

lizardek — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:12:56 +0000

That poem was wonderful. I look forward to seeing the fruit of his inspiration here

By: la vie en rose

la vie en rose — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:32:17 +0000

i’ve never had the priviledge of attendint a poetry reading. it sounds fabulous. i love this poem from bly.

my challenge for september was 30 poems in 30 days–i’ve not only been writing a poem each day (and some of them aren’t very good at all but hey, you have to be willing to write badly right?), but i’ve also been writing down a poem by another poet and sticking it somewhere out of the way, filling all kinds of drawers, cabinets, pockets, and other unusual places with poetry. yesterday britton found one of the poems i’d written on a scrap piece of paper and while we were outside playing ended up sticking it in the gas tank of his dad’s car. now we even have poetry in the gas tank.