Ok, as promised...the poetry contest for this weekend:
Write a poem in the style of Emily Dickenson (see, told you you might want a garrett). This can be a parody of one of her poems if you like or it can simply be an original in her style. (If you parody, provide a link to the poem yours is based on - the link above is to her complete works.)
What is the style of Emily Dickenson?
It's good you asked! For me (and thus for the purposes of judging) the style of Emily Dickenson is simply this: your poem must be able to be sung to either the tune of Amazing Grace or the theme song to Gilligan's Island.
Good topics that fit this style: deep depression, unrequited love, sadness, melancholy, death, sorrow, solitude, etc. You know, the stuff ED wrote about.
Have fun!
(and in case you didn't gather, I am no fan of ED, so have fun with this...you won't hurt my feelings.)
5 hours ago
Dawn, the poems are submitted as comments to this post, so just check back and you'll see them. (And you can go back and see the poems for weeks past in the comments of those poetry posts.) Sometimes poetry isn't about creativity - so you can always try the madlibs approach (this week goes particularly well with that idea - take an Emily poem, and put in your own noun every time she has one, your own verb for hers, etc. Actually, that could be kinda fun.)
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