http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/section-134-prompts-challenges Can you do it? en 2000-2008 stephan@shakespearesmonkeys.com stephan@shakespearesmonkeys.com 42.65614 -71.334 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:55:45 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 59 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2813-forbidden-words http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2813-forbidden-words the sun fails, but do you? anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2813-forbidden-words#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2813 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2813 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2813 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2822-100-words http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2822-100-words No more. No less anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2822-100-words#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2822 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2822 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2822 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2825-a-to-z-in-one-easy-sentence http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2825-a-to-z-in-one-easy-sentence Pangramatic poem anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2825-a-to-z-in-one-easy-sentence#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2825 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2825 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2825 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2828-american-x-pression http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2828-american-x-pression Categories...not words anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2828-american-x-pression#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2828 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2828 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2828 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2802-ashley-s-equine-challenge http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2802-ashley-s-equine-challenge Write an equine poem. Name a type of horse - Bay, Friesian, Clydesdale, Arabian, pinto, Peruvian Paso, etc.  Then, write a poem about it anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2802-ashley-s-equine-challenge#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2802 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2802 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2802 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2801-be-the-primate http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2801-be-the-primate You're a non-human primate (monkey, gorilla, mandrill, chimp, etc). Tell us what kind and write a poem about how you interact with others of your kind. Add a link to your poem here too so everyone can comment anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2801-be-the-primate#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2801 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2801 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2801 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5762-burning-bush http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5762-burning-bush This is a challenge to expand your mind in uncomfortable directions. Our passions often blind us to things. Since most poets hate George Bush, he becomes an excellent tool for this excercise. If however you are a Bush supporter, then go the other way, write the opposite, or pick something that you passionately oppose, and support it in poetry anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5762-burning-bush#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5762 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5762 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5762 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2814-by-numbers http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2814-by-numbers This exercise invites you to create a poem by filling the gaps with appropriate words anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2814-by-numbers#comments 2 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2814 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2814 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2814 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5761-chapstick-and-death http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5761-chapstick-and-death These challenges stack.. the hard poem assumes all the limits of the easy and medium anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5761-chapstick-and-death#comments 5 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5761 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5761 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5761 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2808-damn-those-british-bastards http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2808-damn-those-british-bastards Paganini pointed us there. Blame her anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2808-damn-those-british-bastards#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2808 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2808 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2808 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5764-green-bottomed-tiger http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5764-green-bottomed-tiger Simple little challenge inspired by $10,000,000 and a club anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5764-green-bottomed-tiger#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5764 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5764 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5764 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2826-half-dozen-of-the-other http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2826-half-dozen-of-the-other 666? what the hell anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2826-half-dozen-of-the-other#comments 6 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2826 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2826 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2826 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5763-hopping-skotch http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5763-hopping-skotch Leanne pointed out that the quote is not iambic, therefore one can't make iambic blank verse. Feel free to adjust the first line to work with the meter anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5763-hopping-skotch#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5763 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5763 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5763 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2800-noah-s-choice http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2800-noah-s-choice pick any real world animal and write a poem about it. make it a formed poem - haiku, sonnet, pantoum, etc... anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2800-noah-s-choice#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2800 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2800 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2800 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2812-seven-words-seven-less http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2812-seven-words-seven-less easy, right? anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2812-seven-words-seven-less#comments 1 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2812 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2812 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2812 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5760-stuck http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5760-stuck One of the roots of stuckness is trying to do too much all at the same time. So today, let's try to do very little. ... um... We are going to write a poem about ourselves anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5760-stuck#comments 1 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5760 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5760 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5760 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4699-tasteless http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4699-tasteless Write a poem about the Ebner gland. Don't know what that is? Look it up! anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4699-tasteless#comments 1 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4699 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4699 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4699 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2811-word-list-twist http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2811-word-list-twist Can you do the twist? anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2811-word-list-twist#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2811 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2811 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2811 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2824-yawn.-not-again. http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2824-yawn.-not-again. Cliches? anstey Prompts & Challenges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2824-yawn.-not-again.#comments 0 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2824 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2824 http://shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2824