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Jacob commented on the post, Love in the time of COVID – Hour 11 {haiku} 1 month ago
Wonderful and evocative. Well done!
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Jacob commented on the post, SEASON OF THE SILLINESS 1 month ago
I love the exuberance of this poem; and the subtle context of current day underpinning it – the line “they needn’t come back to earth” such a fantasy right now. To be little and free in the park! You captured the moment wonderfully.
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Jacob commented on the post, LAKES, RIVERS, SEA 1 month ago
Wonderful lines:
“Skated for miles
and hours, whisper singing, I wish
I had a river I could skate away on,
and almost succeeded, but the sharp cold
always brought me home,”
And also how it moves through ideas, and weaves the story, and builds to the ending.
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Jacob commented on the post, Moonshadow 1 month ago
Powerful in its initial simplicitly; and the starkness of the final lines, catupulted by the references to Auschwitz and Frankl. Well done.
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Jacob commented on the post, Here We Are – golden shovel 1 month ago
“my city of I / and its reliability to be always / steady and constant is in doubt” –
A powerful and evocative series of ideas; quite compressed.
Lots of powerful lines like that one in this poem.
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Jacob commented on the post, Announcing the Finishers of The 24 Hour Poetry Marathon! 1 month ago
Fixed! You’re now on the list.
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Jacob commented on the post, Wisdom (#12, Hour 24) [Sijo] 1 month ago
Wonderful! This fully immersed me, with such few words.
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Jacob commented on the post, Pantoum 1 month ago
Thank you, Davita, your thoughts mean a lot to me.
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Jacob commented on the post, Pantoum 1 month ago
Thank you for the kind words! It means a lot. 🙂
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Jacob commented on the post, Announcing the Finishers of the 2020 Poetry Half-Marathon 1 month ago
I added you! I think you initially didn’t show up, because you never pressed “publish” for many of your poems. You should probably do this, if you want other poets to be able to see them.
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Jacob commented on the post, Auckland (Hour 11) 1 month ago
The repitition in this poem is lovely; I especially like how it built to the last two lines, which were fresh and familiar at once.
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Jacob wrote a new post, Announcing the Finishers of the 2020 Poetry Half-Marathon 1 month ago
The following poets set a goal of writing twelve poems in twelve hours and they succeeded! After a successful day (or night) of creating poetry, everyone on this list deserves a round of applause. […]
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Jacob wrote a new post, Announcing the Finishers of The 24 Hour Poetry Marathon! 1 month ago
Dear Poets,
The following poets set the goal of writing one poem per hour for twenty four hours – and they succeeded! That is a wonderful, difficult, and rewarding achievement. Congratulations on achieving s […]
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128 X 24 = 3072 poems
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Wow! That’s impressive! We had a lot of people get to 21 poems and no futher (which is always hard).
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What a massive achievement. Very, very well done everyone!!! AMAZING!!! 🙂 Mari
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My second go at the 24hr challenge. My first time completing it. A first of many more, I hope!
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What a fantastic achievement, us!! And thank you so much for organising and supporting everybody!
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Lots of poems to read I will do my best!!! Thanks for all you inspired work!!
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Congratulations everyone! I hope you got some much deserved sleep last night🙏🏾
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My name is not on the list – I did all 24 this year. sandraj631968
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Fixed! You’re now on the list.
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Thanks!
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Congratulations everyone!!!!?
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Congrats, y’all. 🙂
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I had such fun completing them.
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It was an exhilarating experience.
Congratulations everyone!-
my exact words!
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My first time doing anything like this and I DID IT!! Thank you guys for putting this together!! It was challenging but it definitely helped me sharpen my pen. 🙂
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Thank you for all the support from admins, to other poets to FB to comments…. it was a great experience. Completely positive.
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Thank you for facilitating this process – I feel I learned a lot about process by being pushed like this. I am editing and developing what I started here 🙂
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Jacob commented on the post, Skagit Flats 1 month ago
Caitlin just read your poem, then said “It’s so good, Jacob.”
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Jacob commented on the post, Skagit Flats 1 month ago
Wonderful.
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Jacob commented on the post, How to Find the Dark 1 month ago
There are so many striking lines (and contrasts) in this poem.
“The minister is saying the same platitudes.
Think of chocolate. Think of your bloody
white pants. ”
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Jacob wrote a new post, Memories of Home (Not Chronological) 1 month ago
Prospect Place: I fill a bucket with ice, blow a fan over it, to cool my room within a room.
Gowanus: I bake a sheet of cookies; my room-mate walks in, and eats them, chatting away, until they’re gone. In the m […]
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Gorgeous images, Jacob. Your writing is so moving and distinctive. Great voice!
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I loved the images, and the stories each memory had. So fleeing, but exact.
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Such a well executed concept! These memories weave together in a satisfying way and I love the moment you choose to end this poem.
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I don’t know what to say but a really great poem that found it’s form! I’m glad it’s not in chronological order and every stanza stands alone! I really like this one.
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Jacob,
I liked the flow of your streets and memories. It would be interesting to write the same poem after the various forms of lock-down have been removed.
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Excellent imagery. Good one, Jacob.
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Jacob commented on the post, Prompt 11 Hour 11. Faith chep 1 month ago
I really like how you ended this poem:
“for you are full of fresh fragrance
I will come home to embrace you”
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Jacob commented on the post, Original 1 month ago
These lines really stand out to me; they’re quite evocative:
“First breathless moments in eternity,
I know I will see you there,
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Jacob commented on the post, Season of the Bitch 1 month ago
Powerful! You chose a good structure for this poem; it works well, it keeps momentum, while still adding new ideas with each stanza. 🙂
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I counted 155 half marathoners!
I couldn’t find my name here.
I added you! I think you initially didn’t show up, because you never pressed “publish” for many of your poems. You should probably do this, if you want other poets to be able to see them.
I haven’t found my name even in miscellaneous here.
my poems are in the draft.
155 X 12 = 1860
I don’t see my name either.
On third look, I’m there! LOL…sorry!
There I am! 😍😍
It’s being a pleasure, even if it was difficult. Thanks a lot 😃😃
Hola,
my name doesn’t appear either, is it because the poems are “private”?
Thanks 🙂
The privacy setting doesn’t matter. Send us a message at poets@thepoetrymarathon.com and we’ll sort it out!
It was a challenge! More than I thought it would be! Thanks for the opportunity and I hope I produced at least one poem worth reading!! Any other Aussies out there, I’d be interested in you comments on my poem My Country- Australia
See mine under kpsami05
2nd year running and I finished both times. Funny enough the first time seemed easier than this time. I got tired and struggled with the last few. No matter. I got ’em done and that’s 12 more added to my arsenal. Congrats everyone! Well done!
I am there and accounted for; thanks Caitlin and hubby, the ride was less bumpy this time, but the view was spectacular!
Thank God for the live writing pad that the Poetry Marathon provides, livestreaming like surfing on the massive sea, never having time to worry if you’ll ever reach the shore. It was soooo effervescent!
Fantastic work, y’all. 🙂
I am here… thanks… took me all this while to figure out how I was to respond to replies to my comments 🙂 🙂
Lots of learning happening here for me… thanks 🙂