Underground Writers Network Forum Challenge of the Week ~ #22

World Poetry Day is on March 21, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999. The purpose of the day is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day says, to "give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements."

So for this challenge, I propose we all work together in the creation of a piece. I am sure you have at some point collaborated with another writer to create a piece, but how about collaborating with 5, or 10? I am excited to see what would come out!

The rules are as follows:

To celebrate Poetry Day, we will create a poem. Everyone can submit only one to two lines, so that we can all collaborate without making it impossible to read.

You will have time to submit your line until tomorrow night (come on it's only one line ::cool:: ) and by the end of the day we can go through some editing suggestions. I will post the final piece on my profile and feature it here on the group. Let's have some good laughs and celebrate a day of poetry. Try your hardest to come up with great images that fit into the previous lines.

Here go my lines:

The fish told the lion: "who could be a ferocious beast..."
yet the lion disgressed: "being a diver is all the best"

Here go my lines:
"And from the flood I sent a dove to the morning sun,
But what returned was a crow cawing to the moon."

Here are mine:
Dove and Crow blend in the night
like star and black hole, gravity and light.

ok here goes...
So off they went, the fish and the lion
to catch sight of the dove's first flight

I don't know where I'm suppose to send my one line... so I'll just boomerang it back to you...


my one line is as follows:
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"With a year of life, being one lap."
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-Paully

Crow said, "Hell, I'm black as oil on scree."
"C'mere," cooed dove, "C'mere and kiss me."

Oh, I am having such a blast already ::biggrin:: Keep adding, keep adding! This is going to be the "bestest" piece in the whooole writerscafe site ::tongue::

This is what we've got so far:

Quote:

And mine :)

Soaring so high, within the sky
towards the sun that reflected
off the dove's delicate white body.

Now my lines don't make sense, everyone beat me to posting while I was trying to post :)

Ashley

"Kiss me into darkness Crow, sketch fresh pathways through my sky."



::biggrin::

Quote:


Only one or two lines Ash, try again ;)

�Come to me, my dove lumi�re, or part and leave me die�

I cannot kiss you, my dearest crow
for my heart belongs to another, your foe

Here's my lines ::cool::
"Sadness engulfed the crow's darkness.
Deep woeful pain radiating from within his chest."

This is our progress up to now:

Quote:

"That's all very well Fish, your point I can see
But I want to be you and you want to be me."

Looking upon Lion and Fish, man saw only meat
He put skills to the skillet and made himself a treat.

Remember the woes of love-lorn animals in a fable
Are simple, silly trifles compared to food on the table.

But while chewing his fare and drinking some wine,
Thoughts of his own lost loves came to his mind.

For, upon his serving hand's forefinger
The scars of old wedding rings still linger