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I'm hoping that this idea will be more
accepted than my last one, but anyway, I
thought it would be cool if a poet started
a poem and wrote something different
each day for a set amount of time. Then
they would pass it on to another poet
,who would do the same thing and the
poem would be
passed on and on from
poet to poet.
Because this poem would obviously be
very long (since it's hopefully going to be
never-ending), the first poet could start
with a book and when that became full,
the current poet would buy another book
to write it in.
I got this idea because I saw something
about J.R.R. Tolkien, I think it was the
LOTR DVDs, and it said that he intended
that his writing to be worked on by other
writers and it would become this sort of
web connecting all these people, and be
a great collabrative work. I thought that
was a really interesting idea and it would
be fun to see how one poem could
change from writer to writer.
Not quite never-ending, but close enough.
http://en.wikipedia.../Epic_of_King_Gesar
"The epic is considered the longest literary work in the world. Although there is no one definitive compilation, if completed it would fill some 120 volumes, containing over 20 million words in more than one million verses." [angel, Jun 16 2005]
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This has a neverending poem, if you follow the instructions. [dbmag9, Feb 14 2006]
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Possibly. I guess I would say a poet would choose the next one who they think is qualified. |
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Don't they have this in some rap competitions -- the part about completing stanzas and picking up from one to the other? |
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I don't think poetry is the right medium for this. In poetry, the meaning of the words is up for interpretation. |
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'The leaves change colour' |
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That could be taken as ones feelings changing for another, it could be a metaphor for time passing, or it could just be talking about the seasons. So, although this could make some fairly interesting poetry, it could get messy in a hurry. My vote remains neutral! [ ] |
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Can I suggest an improvement? |
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The instructions ask each poet to choose (in their opinion) the worst line in the poem and cross it out. That way the poem (hopefully) improves and keeps to a reasonable size. |
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Theoritically, you get the best poem as n approaches infinity. |
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Baked.
My family have being doing this for years. Write a line of poetry then post it off to another family member. Keep going until you get bored. Read it out at Christmas or Easter or a birthday or whenever the family are all together in one place. |
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what a nice idea. DrBob I mean. |
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[DrBob] Do you mean you write a poem
until people are bored and then you end
it, or are you saying you've been writing
on the same poem for years? If it's the
first one, then it's not exactly the same
thing. |
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Lots of different poems rather than one never ending one but the principle is the same. It certainly fits your description...
//it would be cool if a poet started a poem and wrote something...for a set amount of time. Then they would pass it on to another poet //
The only difference is the duration of the writing process and the quality of the poetry ;o)
ps: thank you po. My mum started it off and, much to all of our surprise, we discovered that a talent for poetry seems to run through the whole family and that we'd all been secretly scribbling away for years. |
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The longer a poem is, the better it has to be for people to read it in complete form. The longer a poem is, the more aimless babbling will creep unnoticed into the creative stuff. Can't vote against this though for some reason. It is an interesting idea if not a good one. |
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In a way, long running comic strips are like this. |
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Kind of like the 'Tails for all' post, if you look on it as abstract poetry. Some of the HB posts have been going on for 5 years now... |
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The Hardcore Bakers eschew the path
The bait in weight not worth the wrath
Of peers, sum fears, they'll issue egad!
at night kind buzz flips good and mad |
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Come morning, come anno's, come wonder. |
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I've some memory of an endless symphony. I'll see if I can find a link. |
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