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Jan

Kill This Poem

   Posted by: rettstatt   in children's literature, kaimira, kidlitosphere

Ok, so I don’t have many advanced reading copies of my book. And I want to contribute a post for Poetry Friday. So I thought to myself, “Self: mash it up,” and the result is: Kill This Poem.

I will post the first line of a collaborative poem, and the person who adds the final line in the comments “kills” the poem. And wins a signed copy of Kaimira: The Sky Village.

A line is judged as “final” when 48 hours passes without anyone else adding a new line.

I’m going to start out with the assumption of ABAB CDCD EFEF and so on, but breaking out of that won’t disqualify anyone.

This should go pretty quickly, because I don’t have a large readership.

Kill This Poem

The name of this poem is its fate.

So, who is the brave soul willing to add the second line?   Thanks, Kelly!

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15 comments so far

Kelly Fineman
 1 

How quickly will it meet its death

January 18th, 2008 at 17:29
E.L. Foster
 2 

Pushing forward to the end date

January 18th, 2008 at 21:21
 3 

And quickly losing all its breath

January 18th, 2008 at 22:05
 4 

It sheds its words onto the ground

January 19th, 2008 at 00:01
 5 

Discarded there to rot

January 19th, 2008 at 00:48
 6 

And ever more shall we discern

January 19th, 2008 at 00:57
 7 

That our words are worth naught

January 19th, 2008 at 00:58
 8 

But is the poem an empty shell?

January 19th, 2008 at 03:12
 9 

Or does it have deep meaning that is sought?

January 19th, 2008 at 04:30
cloudscome
 10 

My words may ring the final bell

January 19th, 2008 at 11:36
 11 

Then deathly silence is their lot.

January 19th, 2008 at 16:08
 12 

Alone and buried in the snow

January 19th, 2008 at 19:03
 13 

The pages, blank, tell tales of woe.

January 21st, 2008 at 17:27
 14 

i’ll participate next time.

January 27th, 2008 at 19:43
 15 

How much farther will this sad rhyme go?

February 9th, 2008 at 22:03

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