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...the anvil’s a-clinking, the poets are screaming...
Dear Hammer-bearers!
I abandoned you and I can only apologise. [Insert long and tedious sob story here.] Oh the blackness! Oh the cloying murk!
But those dark days are over and things are going to change:
1. You might have noticed your poetry migrating into the group gallery over the last couple of days. If you haven’t, it’s your own fault for not submitting anything to the previous challenges.1 2 For shame! In the future every piece written for a challenge will be added to the group (it is now possible to submit directly, please pick the right gallery!) and I will encourage members to read others’ entries. Very good pieces might be picked out and featured in various ways. If you’re lucky.
2. Hammered will run for 4 months from December 1st to March 31st and then we’ll have a 3 month break. We all have lives to get on with after all.
And finally,
(wait for it,)
(this is the really exciting bit...)
3. We’re going to kick off with a contest! raspil wouldn’t put up with this sort of nonsense in ScreamPrompts but I’m shameless. Besides, I think you might need a bit of bribery to knuckle down on challenge #5 because it’s tougher than average. Keep your eyes peeled. Details to come.
If you can’t wait for that, prompt #4 Etymoetry is still open. Go go go!
1Probably. If any poems have slipped through my net, just slap me with a kipper and send me a link.
2Or because it already had a gallery spot in the first place.
(Feel free to hit the +fav button. Y'know, just putting it out there
)
Dear Hammer-bearers!
I abandoned you and I can only apologise. [Insert long and tedious sob story here.] Oh the blackness! Oh the cloying murk!
But those dark days are over and things are going to change:
1. You might have noticed your poetry migrating into the group gallery over the last couple of days. If you haven’t, it’s your own fault for not submitting anything to the previous challenges.1 2 For shame! In the future every piece written for a challenge will be added to the group (it is now possible to submit directly, please pick the right gallery!) and I will encourage members to read others’ entries. Very good pieces might be picked out and featured in various ways. If you’re lucky.
2. Hammered will run for 4 months from December 1st to March 31st and then we’ll have a 3 month break. We all have lives to get on with after all.
And finally,
(wait for it,)
(this is the really exciting bit...)
3. We’re going to kick off with a contest! raspil wouldn’t put up with this sort of nonsense in ScreamPrompts but I’m shameless. Besides, I think you might need a bit of bribery to knuckle down on challenge #5 because it’s tougher than average. Keep your eyes peeled. Details to come.
If you can’t wait for that, prompt #4 Etymoetry is still open. Go go go!
1Probably. If any poems have slipped through my net, just slap me with a kipper and send me a link.
2Or because it already had a gallery spot in the first place.
(Feel free to hit the +fav button. Y'know, just putting it out there
)
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Prompt #6: 60 Extraordinary Words
Recall an extraordinary moment. It needn’t be "perfect"; simply distinct from the blurred minutes of everyday.
For example:
#1 Once I sat on my bed eating an unripe plum. The room was perfectly tidy and the sky was perfectly blue. My walls were white and the balcony outside the window was grey concrete. It was February so the trees were bare, shimmering silver. I was listening to Regina Spektor’s Somedays, which is a pure, quiet song with just voice, cello and piano. The line that stood out to me was "I’m in love with your daughter" because I was in love, or close enough. A single plane crossed the blue sky l
End Rhyme to End All Rhyme: 5 days to go!
Contest: End rhyme to end all rhyme. Read all about it!
27th December 2011
Season's greetings!
You have 5 days left to enter the End Rhyme to End All Rhyme competition!
All the entries so far can be found in this 'ere gallery.
In a conversation with angelStained (https://www.deviantart.com/angelstained) on the original contest thread, we decided that you are welcome to edit your poem at any point up to the deadline of December 31st in order to create the best rhyming poem you can. HammeredPoetry (https://www.deviantart.com/hammeredpoetry) is, after all, all about developing poetry to make it as brilliant as possible. I am therefore encouraging you to go and critique each other's entries, right now. After all, do
Contest: End rhyme to end all rhyme
A HammeredPoetry (https://www.deviantart.com/hammeredpoetry) Prompt-Contest
This contest is now open! Please submit your entries to the group gallery 5 End rhyme to end all rhyme.
Rhyming poetry is unfashionable. Unless you want to come across as either comic or childish, end rhyme is old news. If you’ve tried rhyme recently you might have found that the only way to take yourself seriously is to write a medieval ballad or a Shakespearean sonnet about ancient knights or Elizabethan love. Either way you end up sounding trite.
But we don’t want to let rhyme languish. We want rhyme in our poetic toolkit, as acceptable as alliteration, as valid as assonance. So here&#x
Prompt #4: Etymoetry
Read the entries so far.
Did you know the modern word “worm” comes from the Old English “wyrm” meaning dragon? Or that “vermicelli” pasta is so called because it looks like “little worms”?
Did you know that in the 15th century “facility” meant “gentleness”, or that “sepia” comes from “seppia” meaning “cuttlefish”?
If not, you should be spending more time with etymonline.
I confess I have a weakness for etymology. How can anyone not think that finding out how words have metamorphosed through time and space and cult
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