Poetry Fishbowl on My Blog Today

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Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! I will be checking my blog 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.

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 romance, science and love. I am especially looking for:

romantic settings

dashing heroes and heras

damsels and gentlemen in distress

love life complications

scientific aspects of love </i>

lovable science </i>

things that make you go "awww!"

and poetic forms

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 on my blog so everyone can enjoy it.

Comments

Forms

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Off the top of my head:

Fish out of water
Unlikely heroes
Unlikely societies
Obscure research
Misunderstandings, lies, gossip, general confusion as plot engines
Tiny pebble that starts an avalanche
Internal dialogue