i behind the bar tonite… smiles
Hey everyone – hope you’re having a lovely thursday!
When you read this as the pub doors open I will be at a cocktail mixing workshop – don’t ask me how I got there – ha – story in itself… smiles
A while ago I saw this “connecting the dots” idea somewhere out in the blogworld – have forgotten though where it was. If you know, please tell me to give the inventor credit
I thought it is a nice idea to use vocabulary we wouldn’t usually
So the challenge is:
Fold a sheet of paper in half
On the one side of the page list 10 nouns
Think of a career or occupation choice
On the other half 10 verbs that correspond to that position
Now connect each of the nouns with a verb
Using any of those combinations, write a 3 (or more) stanza poem with 3 (or more/or less) lines per stanza
Actually, you can go a bit wild as well with the lines and stanzas – just use the vocabulary of the profession you have chosen..
Have a go – and I will catch up with you once I’m back from the workshop
–Claudia
dVerse 
Just stopping in to say hi. Hope everyone is having a good day!
Always good to visit the bar…
hey mary.. will email you ina bit….
Got it, Claudia!
I feel better now having read more carefully the prompt. I feared that I had dove off the deep end, falling out of the prompt tree, breaking rules as I plunged into expansive poetics, but perhaps not. It’s like what Bjorn postulated in his poem today, the “cleaning crew” always has a chore making sense, or an invoice out of poetry. I am just joyful after each prompt that the flood gates of creativity spring open, & a poem never fails to emerge; & for me, “the poem is the thing”. It is helpful, as a learning experience to “follow the rules”, as a learning experience, but when a poem finds its own way to paper, when it springs on you out of the shadows of a Muse, I just embrace it.
i’m guilty of breaking the rules myself this time…so…
In addition, tonight we all need to take advantage of Claudia’s new found expertise in Mixology, try something different, dangerous, daring; like a Singapore Sling or something with peanut butter in it.
ha – i tried about 16 different cocktails tonite… just little sips though… my fav still is the mojito
Ha, I like the mojito too! A good mojito is so refreshing, but I consider it more of a summer drink.
made it just in time to upload a pic from my bartender workshop tonite… was fun… and i’m making the world best mojito now… just saying… smiles
Really a cool photo, Claudia! You look like an expert there.
smiles.. far from being an expert – i was under close observation by a real expert though – he made things look so easy…
a while back, there was a request to submit images for a new header for dVerse. I propose that the picture you just posted here, Claudia, would make an excellent pic…it has the pub theme going, and one of the actual dVerse pubtenders in the pic too!
oy – i’m not sure if i always wanna look at myself when i step into the pub… smiles
just scroll down quickly so you don’t have to see the header…smiles
Hello, I’m on my way home – tonight a concert with music of Dvorak and Rachmaninov- wonderful. How fun to be a bartender for real.. Can I have a Mojito Claudia?
oh wow – that concert sounds great.. and yeah.. mojito’s in the making…smiles.. crash ice or ice cubes? (the cuban way is with cubes..smiles)
We are totally out of mint here so any way is good
sounds like a wonderful concert!
Rachmaninoff’s third piano-concert is a real challenge for the piano-solist.
I used to play piano…pretty much anything by Rachmaninoff would give me nightmares to try to play.
I have read the Rachmaninoff had nightmares about his 3rd 🙂
Sounds like a great concert!
Hey, Claudia! Late finishing my workout…. You don’t mind a sweaty guy at the bar, do ya? 🙂
haha – not at all… want a drink?
just spike my protein drink with some vodka… hahah
I guess I am too docile sometimes. I just followed the rule and ended up with a very so-so poem. As for cocktails, I am afraid I have not moved beyond the gin&tonic of my UK years. 🙂
i tried hard to submit to my own rules… and didn’t manage… i feel bad though…ugh
i can mix you some pretty decent cocktails gabriella… what about a daiquiri hemingway no. 3…? highly recommendable… smiles
It sounds wonderful!
I broke the rules too. Hey…in poetry, isn’t that why rules are there anyways…so that we can break them? smiles
one of the interesting things about this prompt is that so many nouns can also be used as verbs (or vice versa). In fact, more than a few of my verbs ended up as nouns in the poem.
true – and it makes for some interesting combos as well
Thank you, I enjoyed this immensely. You push me to explore and express myself in ways that don’t come to me as an obvious choice. I’ll be here in the corner, if someone can pass Malibu with Pineapple juice overhere. 😉
Oh, that sounds good! I wouldn’t mind having one of those either!
me three… ha
Yes This is why we have our Thursday’s — pushing ourselves
It was meant to be, cause Thursday was my one free day in WP world. I was looking for a place to share my poetry and this is such a great place.
Rest assured — here we do challenges to stretch ourselves as poets.
This is a nice challenge Claudia, thanks ~ And you look good behind the bar 🙂
Yes, she definitely looks like a good mixologist!
yes she does… smiles. Pour it up C.
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have a great day everyone… will be a long day at work for me as we’re having a seminar running – so will check back in only later in the evening…
Ah.. hope it’s a great seminar though 🙂
Thanks for the challenge, Claudia. Cool shot of you behind the bar. I may not have gotten the rules quite right with this challenge, but I had fun trying…smiles.
Hey Poet Laundry… You gave us a soulful write tonight 🙂
Thanks, Anthony–glad you stopped in to give it a read! 🙂
I have only the vaguest idea what happened to the prompt. But my grandfather really was a longshoreman, if that helps.
Oh Claudia, forgot to stop by the pub. So rude. I enjoyed all the poems here. What a great prompt – everyone wrote such great pieces that gave us insights into their lives. Loved it!