New Verses

The general fund poll split the donation across both open epics.  "Holding Hope and Love" has 4 new verses.  Dr. Roderstein and Cheersquad discuss fears and soups.  "A Hope and a Promise" has 7 new verses.  Aidan is enchanted by the Montessori toys.

Poetry Fishbowl Report for October 4, 2016

Our theme this month was "monsters." I worked from 12:30 PM to 4 AM, so about 13 hours 30 minutes accounting for lunch and supper breaks. I wrote 7 poems on Tuesday and 11 later on.

Participation was quite enthusiastic, with 34 comments on LiveJournal and another 69 on Dreamwidth. A total of 23 people sent prompts. Please welcome new prompters callibr8 and LJ user John_palmer; you have them to thank for the extra freebie.


Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the October 4, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"Batan Kyuu"
"Carry Them With You in Your Heart" (sponsored, pending post)
"Certain Anthropological Researches"
"Creatures of Chaos"
"Defining Humankind"
"God Help the Outcasts"
"A Monster So Hideous"
"The Real Monsters"
"Taking the Night Watch"
"Two to Twenty"

"È Meglio Star Solo" (Fiorenza the Wisewoman, 8/5/14 fishbowl)
"Thorns and Claws" (Beneath the Family Tree, 11/4/14 fishbowl)


Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list for October 4, 2016. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.

Currently sponsored poems from this session have all been posted. There were 9 donors this time: capri0mni, alatefeline, rix_scaedu, janetmiles, technoshaman, redsixwing, ng_moonmoth, Anthony & Shirley Barrette.

The Poetry Fishbowl made its $200 goal, so "Thorns and Claws" is the free epic. That's the first tally for the $250 goal.


The Poetry Fishbowl project also has a permanent landing page.

Poem: "Carry Them With You in Your Heart"

This poem is spillover from the October 4, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from redsixwing. It also fills the "Character-building: past trauma" square in my 8-1-16 card for the Group Dynamics and Character-building Bingo Cards. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the Officer Pink thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This is mostly positive, but Turq is still emotionally fragile and gets overloaded on family stuff. Ansel takes care of him.

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