Sunday, May 4, 2014

An Open Thank You to Gay Reiser Cannon

Dear Gay,

For the April 10, 2014 dVerse Meeting the Bar post, you challenged us to create our own form. I created the Geburstag, which uses the writer's birthday to determine lines and either word or syllable count. In my comments, you wrote that it would also be a good ways to write poems for other people using their birthday. Your challenge and comment opened a whole new way of celebrating my friends for me. I have been using it for birthdays and to commemorate any other special day. (I don't know if my friends like it as much...) But it has been such a fun way for me to remember and reappreciate people who are important to me. I just wanted to thank you for the cool inspiration!

With Gratitude,

heidi

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  1. smiles. it is very cool that you are giving your form legs...
    and that you thanked gay too...will drop her an email and let her know.

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    1. Thank you Brian! I get so much from dVerse! :)

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  2. You're so sweet... I'm glad you've been inspired to create and use your own form!

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    1. Thank you Laurie! It's been a lot of fun. :)

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  3. Very fun form, Heidi. So glad Brian shared the link to this. I want to try it and reblog tomorrow for my Monday Meanderings. Let me know if you object.

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    1. Thank you Victoria! Please feel free to try the form! *blushing* The only change that I have made in it is that it no longer has to be a birthday, but any special day.

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  4. wow, that is a really great and fun way to reappreciate the people in your life... Very kind of you!

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  5. Thank you for the lovely note ~ Always good to appreciate the teacher who inspired us ~ Gay was also instrumental in introducing me to form poetry 2 years ago ~

    Have a lovely week ahead ~

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    1. Thank you Grace! Have a lovely week too!

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  6. smiles... very cool... and also giving the form a german name... Geburtstag - ha - very nice... Gay is surely inspiring... thanks for the thank you to her...

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    1. Thank you Claudia! I love German and wish I could say more than "Ich bin Americaner(sp?) und spreche nicht gut deutch. I misspelled it a couple of times and Marina Sofia was kind enough to help me out. Gay's prompt has lead to a lot of joy for me. :)

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  7. Great post.. I remember your suggestion... And yes a very nice way to celebrate birthdays. ;-)

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  8. Can't believe I only just saw this post. I am so happy you were able to make use of the prompt and come up with an awesome form! I am using the one I wrote for that prompt this week at d'Verse as the challenge and upping the ante by making it a "Quarrel" or debate - taking two sides of an issue, or two different voices in counterpoint. Thank you!

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