A Choice of Challenge http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/forums/10 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:10:48 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/forums/10 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Tuesday 7th October - Quotations ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19278/t/Tuesday-7th-October-Quotations.html Here are 4 quotations. Read them, think about them, choose one and write a poem around its meaning:

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
-David Mamet


Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19278 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:05 GMT <![CDATA[ Monday 6th October - Woods or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19274/t/Monday-6th-October-Woods-or-your-title.html image

Please write about the above scene

Photograph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19274 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:01:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Weekly Challenge beginning 5th October - Unusual Words ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19156/t/Weekly-Challenge-beginning-5th-October-Unusual-Words.html

babledom

a confused sound of voices

rabic ... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19156 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:45:43 GMT <![CDATA[ Sunday 5th October - Sit and DayDream or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19155/t/Sunday-5th-October-Sit-and-DayDream-or-your-title.html image

Please write a poem using this photograph as inspiration

Photograph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19155 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:40:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Saturday 4th October - Sunbird or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19144/t/Saturday-4th-October-Sunbird-or-your-title.html image

Please write a poem about the above scene

Photograph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19144 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:41:04 GMT <![CDATA[ Friday 3rd October - Pat-a-Cake - or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19129/t/Friday-3rd-October-Pat-a-Cake-or-your-title.html image

Please write a poem influenced by the above scene

Picture is from: Wunderground

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19129 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:50:26 GMT <![CDATA[ Please Vote for our September Competition ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19097/t/Please-Vote-for-our-September-Competition.html Combined Dreams

Girl in the Mirror

Puberty Sucks

Young and Innocent ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19097 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:27:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Wednesday 1st October - pick a subject ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19082/t/Wednesday-1st-October-pick-a-subject.html
An airport, or travel

A cemetery

Students

One of the professions

Love

Anger

Sleep ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19082 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:30:31 GMT <![CDATA[ Tuesday 30th September - Casino or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19060/t/Tuesday-30th-September-Casino-or-your-title.html image

Please write a poem inspired by the above photograph

Photograph is of Casino, Point Edward, Canada
photgraph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19060 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:28:11 GMT <![CDATA[ Monday 29th September - Pick A Line ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19053/t/Monday-29th-September-Pick-A-Line.html Please use one of these first lines to start a poem:-

Autumn/Fall came early that year........................

Soon it would be winter......................................

The birds are silent, the air is warm.......................

Dressed all in green she.........................................

He/she remembered the fun of Halloween...............

He/she opened the parcel... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19053 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:22:05 GMT <![CDATA[ Sunday 28th September - Leaves or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19023/t/Sunday-28th-September-Leaves-or-your-title.html image

Please write a poem inspired by the above scene

Photgraph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19023 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:02:15 GMT <![CDATA[ Weekly Challenge - beginning 28th September - Duo or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19022/t/Weekly-Challenge-beginning-28th-September-Duo-or-your-title.html image

Please write a poem influenced by the above photograph

Photograph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19022 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:00:20 GMT <![CDATA[ Saturday 27th September - Write a chant ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19007/t/Saturday-27th-September-Write-a-chant.html I saw this challenge elsewhere and we have tried it here many months ago. Let us try it again:

'It has been said that repetition can give almost anything a feeling of power

Think of some chants you may know as they are mostly lines or stanzas repeted like:

Now I walk in beauty.
Beauty is before me.
Beauty is behind me.
Beauty on my right hand.
Beauty on my left hand.
Beauty is above me.
Beauty is below me.
Now I walk in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/19007 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:17:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Friday 26th September - Take a cliche ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18990/t/Friday-26th-September-Take-a-cliche.html Here are some well known cliches. Take one of them and write a poem about it's meaning. Include it or not as you wish:

pillar of society
back to square one
talk 'till your blue in the face
in cold blood
crying in the wilderness
use your head
go at it with hammer and tongs
the well's run dry
father time
the die is cast
hammer out the details
come hell or high water
too close for comfort
prime of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18990 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:25:53 GMT <![CDATA[ Thursday 25th September - Word Challenge ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18971/t/Thursday-25th-September-Word-Challenge.html
agitate
pulse
appearance
pale
tremor
fear
trust
plea
terrible
calm ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18971 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:53:57 GMT <![CDATA[ Wednesday 24th September - Everlasting Love or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18958/t/Wednesday-24th-September-Everlasting-Love-or-your-title.html image

Please write a poem influenced by the above photograph

Photograph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18958 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:38:47 GMT <![CDATA[ Tuesday 23rd September - poem or novel ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18944/t/Tuesday-23rd-September-poem-or-novel.html Write a poem inspired by a line from a poem or novel that you find interesting or exciting. Quote the line, give credit to the author. In fact, put the quote in italics so that we can identify it. If you prefer choose a well known proverb. Include your quote anywhere within your poem.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18944 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:03:21 GMT <![CDATA[ Monday 22nd September - Emotion ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18931/t/Monday-22nd-September-Emotion.html Try to be as descriptive as possible so that it is obvious which emotion the poem is about.
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18931 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:13:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Weekly Challenge - beginning 21st September - Harvest Moon ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18915/t/Weekly-Challenge-beginning-21st-September-Harvest-Moon.html image

Please write about the above scene

Photograph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18915 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:15:26 GMT <![CDATA[ Sunday 21st September - Webmania or your title ]]> http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18914/t/Sunday-21st-September-Webmania-or-your-title.html image

Please write about the above scene

photograph from Wunderground.com

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jean Lewis) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/18914 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:13:33 GMT