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HammeredPoetry is a prompt group. It publishes creative prompts, with a bias towards poetry. However I also like prose, and since the prose prompt groups I used to like are in retirement, I'll be giving prose options too from now until the prosemonkeys take over. I publish responses in a journal at the end of the given prompt period, although if you come to the prompt late, you can submit late, and it will still appear in the gallery.
Go and thank raspil for letting me recycle her idea for ScreamPrompts for poets. She is awesome.
In order for your membership to be approved you must confirm that you've read the rules in your membership request. I don't like being so tyrannical, but I like trawling through submissions by members who've joined without even bothering to find out what #Hammered is about even less.
HammeredPoetry: The Rules
Go and thank raspil for letting me recycle her idea for ScreamPrompts for poets. She is awesome.
Anyone can be a member as long as they want to write better poetry.
All prompt-responses must be brand new poems. No recycling, that won't get you anywhere. You don't have to respond to every prompt. We are all busy people.
#Hammered only accepts submissions which are responses to prompts. If you just want a place to share your poetry, look somewhere else. Any poems which aren't prompt-responses will be rejected. I did not start this group to send 10 "Please remind yourself of the rules" messages a week, so if I don't give you reason, tough. This is it.
Remember to submit your poem to the right gallery (there's one for each prompt).
Please mention or link to HammeredPoetry in you deviation description or I won't know whether it's a prompt response or not!
If you aren't willing to accept critique, or prepared to comment critically on other poems submitted to the group, HammeredPoetry isn't for you.
In order for your membership to be approved you must confirm that you've read the rules in your membership request. I don't like being so tyrannical, but I like trawling through submissions by members who've joined without even bothering to find out what #Hammered is about even less.
Prompt #6: 60 Extraordinary Words
Recall an extraordinary moment. It needn’t be "perfect"; simply distinct from the blurred minutes of everyday.
For example:
#1 Once I sat on my bed eating an unripe plum. The room was perfectly tidy and the sky was perfectly blue. My walls were white and the balcony outside the window was grey concrete. It was February so the trees were bare, shimmering silver. I was listening to Regina Spektor’s Somedays, which is a pure, quiet song with just voice, cello and piano. The line that stood out to me was "I’m in love with your daughter" because I was in love, or close enough. A single plane crossed the blue sky l
End Rhyme to End All Rhyme: 5 days to go!
Contest: End rhyme to end all rhyme. Read all about it!
27th December 2011
Season's greetings!
You have 5 days left to enter the End Rhyme to End All Rhyme competition!
All the entries so far can be found in this 'ere gallery.
In a conversation with angelStained (https://www.deviantart.com/angelstained) on the original contest thread, we decided that you are welcome to edit your poem at any point up to the deadline of December 31st in order to create the best rhyming poem you can. HammeredPoetry (https://www.deviantart.com/hammeredpoetry) is, after all, all about developing poetry to make it as brilliant as possible. I am therefore encouraging you to go and critique each other's entries, right now. After all, do
Contest: End rhyme to end all rhyme
A HammeredPoetry (https://www.deviantart.com/hammeredpoetry) Prompt-Contest
This contest is now open! Please submit your entries to the group gallery 5 End rhyme to end all rhyme.
Rhyming poetry is unfashionable. Unless you want to come across as either comic or childish, end rhyme is old news. If you’ve tried rhyme recently you might have found that the only way to take yourself seriously is to write a medieval ballad or a Shakespearean sonnet about ancient knights or Elizabethan love. Either way you end up sounding trite.
But we don’t want to let rhyme languish. We want rhyme in our poetic toolkit, as acceptable as alliteration, as valid as assonance. So here
The forge fire is a-kindling...
...the anvil’s a-clinking, the poets are screaming...
Dear Hammer-bearers!
I abandoned you and I can only apologise. [Insert long and tedious sob story here.] Oh the blackness! Oh the cloying murk!
But those dark days are over and things are going to change:
1. You might have noticed your poetry migrating into the group gallery over the last couple of days. If you haven’t, it’s your own fault for not submitting anything to the previous challenges.1 2 For shame! In the future every piece written for a challenge will be added to the group (it is now possible to submit directly, please pick the right gallery!) and I will
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I love the idea of this group, developing and writing through challenging prompts is music to my ears. Also the name implies I will be drunk a lot of the time.