[stylist] Prompt_When we dance together

[Lynda Lambert]

Yes, Barbara, any time you want.
Yes, I think it is a great idea to work with something you already wrote and 
re work it. I do this all the time. I have been going way back and pulling 
out poems from the past and rethinking them, too. I just look at them as the 
"first draft" of the new poem - there are no time limits on what you can 
do - when you do it - that is your time.
I have been so prolific so far this year it is as though words are flowing 
out of my entire body - once you get that machine moving, it is off to the 
races.  haha

Lynda





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Prompt_When we dance together


> Someday you'll need to help me figure out how to start a pantoum.  I 
> understand how the scheme works, but I just can't figure out how to do it. 
> Do you suppose there could be success in taking a stanza of a poem I've 
> already written and try working with that?  Pantoums are on my list to 
> conquer and so are senryus.
> Since I normally write in quatrains where the second and fourth lines 
> rhyme, I'm always trying to branch out.  Rhyme royals are a good challenge 
> and so are terza rimas.
> Barbara
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> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:25 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Prompt_When we dance together
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> Morning, Barbara.
> Nervous? Got shivers? Good!
> Anyone who starts up a bike without a bit of nervous would be a fool.
> Anything can happen in a split second, at any time - and you have to 
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> be conscious of that.
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> My poem was written from my memory of one particular day as I rode with 
> some
> friends on bikes across the Pennsylvania mountains - we  started out at 9 
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> the mornning and got back home around midnight.  It was brisk, high winds
> blowing across the mountains sideways for hour upon hour - pouring down
> rains - freezing to the core. A memorable day.
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> I love writing in Pantoum. And, it was fun to write something that started
> with a favorite song. I had no idea when I selected the song, what I would
> be writing about - but then it came to me as I thought of the motions of
> dancing because riding is a dance with the wind.
> Lynda
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 12:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Prompt_When we dance together
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>> You do such a great job with the pantoum!
>> I must confess, I have no appreciation for your subject here, because 
>> I've only ridden on a cycle once and I'm scared to death of the raucous 
>> things. I hope you now get to ride behind someone else on one or that you 
>> soon shall find something else to give you that thrill.  I'm so glad, 
>> though, that you have the memories to fall back on, though at times they 
>> can make you a little sad.
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>> The whole time I was reading that poem, I was so nervous.  LOL!
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>> Barbara
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>> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Lynda Lambert
>> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:06 PM
>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Prompt_When we dance together
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>> Whew! My poem is now ready!
>> First line is from a song - as required.
>> Some other images from the same song appear in the poem, too.
>> I have copied it below, and attached it as well.
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>> Here we go!
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>> "When We Dance Together"
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>> When we dance together, my world's in disguise
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>> Concealed  behind black leather jackets
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>> Dense  fringes snap in the wind
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>> We spiral downward  - a  bizarre  fairyland tale.
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>> Concealed  behind black leather jackets
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>> I hunker down against the brisk mountain air
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>> We spiral downward - a bizarre  fairyland tale
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>> Wild rock-n-roll women in masquerade.
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>> I hunker down against the brisk mountain air
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>> The throbbing steel tank between my legs
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>> Wild rock-n-roll women in masquerade
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>> Neon surges through our veins.
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>> The  throbbing steel tank between my legs
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>> with the rumble of Cobra Drags
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>> Neon surges through our veins.
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>> Lean into the slant wind that blows us around.
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>> with the rumble of Cobra Drags
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>> We ride side by side, with stars in our eyes
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>> Lean into the slant wind that blows us around.
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>> I raise the fist of my  icy cold left  hand
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>> We ride side by side, with stars in our eyes,
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>> on the rough pavement of the dance floor
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>> I raise the fist of my icy cold left hand
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>> Reach out to catch the storm.
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>> On the rough pavement of the dance floor
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>> Laughing with the painful gusts of rain
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>> Reach out to catch the storm
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>> Dancing  together  in disguise.
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>> Note: This poem is a Pantoum form.
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>> Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright, 2013. All Rights Reserved.
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>> Lynda Lambert
>> 104 River Road
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