Commonword Blogs

Or just very short poems. Actually I'm interested in at what point something becomes a poem and my way of investigating this is to write poems that if they were any shorter wouldn't be poems. The question are what makes something a poem, and also is it possible to agree that a piece is or isn't a poem? I have a feeling some of what I consider poetry other people wouldn't.

This blog is for everyone on the Hot House Poetry course to share work, ideas, reading suggestions, etc.

as in not mr gordon or those fleeting moments of inspiration that pass through your mind and you never write down but fiction of 1,000 words or less.

the commonly held general 'rules' are :

there must be a story, i.e. something has to happen
character is paramount
there is a setting, i.e. the story takes place somewhere

for the purposes of this blog these precepts can be ignored. the only rule is the 1,000 word limit. post your work, your comments and see what... occurs. that aside a funny thing happened on my way to the zoo.