Janet Miles

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Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open!  Today's theme is "commoner heroes and second fiddles."  I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

Click to read "Marchesa Micia" (Fiorenza the Wisewoman, 20 verses) or notify minor_architect of linkbacks to reveal more verses.

NEW: Twitter users, please add #promptcall along with #poetryfishbowl when tweeting about this event.  It's a new hashtag that crowdfunders are trying to establish for the convenience of people who like to leave prompts.


( What is a Poetry Fishbowl )

Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "commoner heroes and second fiddles."  I'll be soliciting ideas for heroic commoners, doomed heroes, sidekicks, backup and reserves, innocent bystanders, artifacts for non-heroes, heroic artifacts in non-heroic hands, situations in which a hero is helpless but others are not, plot twists where the favorite gets killed right out of the gate, instances where no hero is available at all, everyday locations for momentous events, terrain as a plot hazard, and poetic forms in particular.  But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have the first edition of Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms which covers most common and many obscure forms.

I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. (Remember, you get an extra freebie poem if someone new posts a prompt or makes a donation, an extra series poem  if donations reach $150+, a series fishbowl  if donations reach $200, and a second free series poem  at $250.  Linkbacks reveal verses of "Marchesa Micia.") The rest of the poems will go into my archive for magazine submission.