April poetry challenge #3
This week’s challenge: Using the template provided here, write a biopoem about one of the four people photographed above and submit it using the comment box at the bottom of the page. Please specify portrait # 1, 2, 3, or 4.
You may use your own name or make one up. Enter as many biopoems as you like. All entries must be submitted before midnight Pacific time on April 30, 2014.
At 8 a.m. on May 1, 2014, I’ll randomly select one entry. The lucky poet will win a $25 gift package (your choice of five packages) from Brick Books.
Have fun!
5 Responses to “April poetry challenge #3”
Love this!
#3 Lawrence (Larry) McLeod
Lawrence (call me Larry, love)
Patient, fair – and sometimes mischievous
Father of five
Lover of pixies and gnomes and all things unseen
Wonder and fear and more love
Will she make it? Am I enough? Will the whole world forget?
Who raised a disabled daughter and taught her to stand proud
Who wanted the fairies to win and to find the gold at the end of the rainbow
Edinburgh
McLeod
Now you’ve done it, Anne. I need to know more! Your questions spark more questions and I’m curious as can be.
Ha! The questions all have answers, of course, though they may have to wait for another day. I do find this “bio-poem” idea wonderful – originally, I thought it would be a great way to help flesh out a character for a fictional piece already in progress, but your response to my bit of whimsy makes me realize that a bio-poem can also be the beginning of a story. And to think all it takes is a random picture of a stranger! Thank you for that, Ms. Commatologist.
My pleasure! I look forward to reading some of your stories.
Leslie