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poetree (though it's partly there and will be up sometime tomorrow afternoon/evening). So I decided to take a break and try answering this week's Climbing the Poet's Tree writing challenge. There is a challenge for readers as well, and prizes are available for both writing and reading challenges. As a comm admin, I'm not eligble to win, but it sure is fun participating. I highly encourage folks to check it out. It's lots of fun, and you do not have to be a dreamwidth user to participate. This weeks writer's challenge is to write one of three forms introduced on the comm last week, a cinquain, an etheree, or a triquint. I chose to try my hand an an etheree. It's untitled, and title suggests are welcome. Concrit is also appreciated and welcome. This is my first time trying out this format. I recommend playing with it, it's fun to write.
Untitled Etheree
Drag
beyond
comfort zones
set worldviews on
edge erase gender
boundaries blur the lines
in our heads transcend too tight
categories transform ourselves
no more hatred no more fear let us
live free beyond your tags let me be me
ETA: fixed html error
poetree (though it's partly there and will be up sometime tomorrow afternoon/evening). So I decided to take a break and try answering this week's Climbing the Poet's Tree writing challenge. There is a challenge for readers as well, and prizes are available for both writing and reading challenges. As a comm admin, I'm not eligble to win, but it sure is fun participating. I highly encourage folks to check it out. It's lots of fun, and you do not have to be a dreamwidth user to participate. This weeks writer's challenge is to write one of three forms introduced on the comm last week, a cinquain, an etheree, or a triquint. I chose to try my hand an an etheree. It's untitled, and title suggests are welcome. Concrit is also appreciated and welcome. This is my first time trying out this format. I recommend playing with it, it's fun to write.Untitled Etheree
Drag
beyond
comfort zones
set worldviews on
edge erase gender
boundaries blur the lines
in our heads transcend too tight
categories transform ourselves
no more hatred no more fear let us
live free beyond your tags let me be me
ETA: fixed html error
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Date: 2012-04-01 04:57 pm (UTC)This is incredible. I love that I can read this and hear it in my head. I daresay I had a sense of William Shatner reading it in my head, and that is not a criticism of the poem. It's just the way I was reading it in my head lent itself to Shatner's unique vocalizing.
The poem itself is very interesting, very "essence of expanding life" to me, if that makes any sense.
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Date: 2012-04-01 09:51 pm (UTC)I adore William Shatner, so I didn't find it a criticism at all. In fact after you mentioned it I went back and re-read the poem. His style of vocalization does suit it perfectly. :D
Thank you so much for your comments.
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Date: 2012-04-08 06:38 pm (UTC)QUILTBAG is a new acronym for me. I have to admit I like it more than the LGBT tag or the longer versions that end up a messy mashup of letters. QUILTBAG seems to more fully encapsulate the lovely quilted together spectrum of people that make up the queer community.
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