StoryMash Creative Storytelling Forum

April is National Poetry Month. I'm asking all you poets out there, what can we do to celebrate? Any ideas for an April Poetry project of our own?

I'm no poet, Al, but what about playing "Exquisite Corpse"? I'm not sure how it would translate onto SM, but here are the rules from poets.org:

"Participants should agree on a sentence structure beforehand. For example, each sentence in the poem could be structured "Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adjective, Noun." Articles and verb tenses may be added later or adjusted after the poem has been written.
The only hard and fast rule of Exquisite Corpse is that each participant is unaware of what the others have written, thus producing a surprising—sometimes absurd—yet often beautiful poem. Exquisite Corpse is a great way to collaborate with other poets, and to free oneself from imaginative constraints or habits.

As an example, the following is an Exquisite Corpse composed by the intrepid Academy staff using the sentence construction Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adjective, Noun.

Slung trousers melt in a roseate box.
A broken calendar oscillates like sunny tin.
The craven linden growls swimmingly. Blowfish.
A glittering roof slaps at crazy ephemera. "

What do you think?

I'm in. Let's get at least two others and go for a practice run.

I'm all for some play on poetry :)

I'm up for this Exquisite Corpse game. But I hope DJ can start us off. I'd also like to publish a series of poetry, maybe one unpublished poem per day throughout April. Any ideas Lady V? We could team up on thematic similar verse...Crappy Love poems/Death poems/Depression poems/Poems about inanimate objects? I suspect that I will start a thread on March 31st that announces my intention, then I will follow up with a poem a day until the end of April. It'll probably end up on page 4 before May 1st. But what the hell.

DJ, can you start us out with the collaborative Exquisite Corpse game, starting with another explanation of the game and the first verse? Might I suggest that you publish as a new story and we add our lines as a draft version to your first line. At the end of the month you, as editor, compile the drafted verses in the order that inspires you and republish the collaborative work as a new poem.

Great idea, Al. I'd be happy to. I'll post the collabo game and instructions and first line on March 31st. Whoa, that's Wed! Okay...

i must warn you i'll be gone for the first three days of april, but i'll write in my notebook so i can publish them when i get home! :) i'm ready for this al!

so i found out a frien dof mine will be bringing a laptop so I will be posting while im outta town :)