Donna Williams’ June 2008, 48 hr, Poetry Challenge
Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours.People CAN’T send names (yes, everyone wants one named after their child 
but they can send other 1-2 word titles. Each sender only gets me writing one poem per poetry challenge and the more surreal the challenge, the better.
So feel free to send me a 1-2 word title in the comments below.
And, because some of you are budding poets yourselves, this is now where you can also ask other commenters to challenge YOU with a title too. So let’s see what happens!
Also if you are a published, self published or street poet, this is where to let people know.
author, artist, composer, screenwriter.
author of the poetry book, Not Just Anything , published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
http://www.donnawilliams.net
My first challenge is from Kay for the word ‘Who’
WHO by Donna Williams copyright June 2008
Who is the stranger in the bed with me
the stranger in my head with me
the stranger in my eyes?
How can a person get so far away
from their own face
and stray so far from the human race
adrift without a home?
Is that the signpost missed along the way?
The words too hard for me to even say?
The castles in the sand?
Somewhere between here and there
I misplaced the part of me that cared
And now I stumble past
The me who had run second last
The me, I left behind.
From Xenia I got ‘Sea Shells’:
SEA SHELLS by Donna Williams, copyright Donna Williams 2008
Hard and smooth it curled in hand
My own back, weathered,
emotions bruised,
ego made redundant,
for lack of a sea shell.
From Ettina, I got “Listen”
LISTEN by Donna Williams, Copyright Donna Williams 2008
She listened
Meaning deaf ears
Cascading torrents of blah
The phrase ad naseum
Round and around
Like a broken record
You just don’t listen, do you?
OK folks, that’s the 48 hours.
Not too many poems this time, but good to see some of your own.
See you all in July.
Warmly,
Donna *)
Here is my challenge word to you: Who
Will someone give me a word?
and a word for you, Kay….
Caravan.
Caravan by Kay
Streams of thought
Ideas float wildly around
There is a wildness
That can be found
If one tries to search
In the mind.
Uncharted territory
Who knows what’s there
There are new roads added
With each new topic
It is added to the caravan of thought.
Mine is ‘Listen’
Peeling Layers to True Self
Copyright By
Deborah Ivy Thorsos
A thin brown tough skin of an onion being peeled away.
Succulent and juicy white tasty layers beneath.
One layer at a time being peeled away,
To reveal all that is beneath.
Tough and pointed petals of an artichoke being peeled away.
More and more of the soft meat appear on a petal beneath.
One petal at a time being peeled away,
To reveal the juicy and tender artichoke heart that is beneath.
My challenges and tainted self image in my subconscious,
One layer at a time being peeled away,
To reveal all of my true self that is beneath.
http://www.dithorsos.wordpress.com
Donna,
My word for you: eventually
hi Carol,
this was June’s poetry challenge.
I’ll run July’s in the next week.
Each month has it’s own page.
🙂
I wrote this for you.
Inside the blank
her voice is loud.
Inside the empty
her eyes do shine.
She shares with one
“together proud”
Her knight in this
her husband Chris
Love to you, CarolHawks
This was wonderful.
Chris and I enjoyed it.
🙂