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Bottles & Cans: A Playlist and Poetry Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 15 Comments

bottled and canned poetry prompt
Summer is cold drinks in bottles (and silvery cans). For some, it is camping and eating straight out of the pork ‘n beans can. Summer is love. And sometimes it is the ache of lost love.

What better time to pull out a Bottled and Canned playlist and pen a poem? Check out our August Bottled & Canned songs and try your hand at a…

Poetry Prompt

Choose a bottle or can (Snapple? Coca Cola? Campbell’s Chicken Soup?) and open it in a poem. How does the bottle or can feel? What does it look like? What sound does it make, and why have you chosen to open it? Are you sharing it with someone, or is this a solitude moment?

Thanks to our participants in last week’s poetry prompt. Here’s a poem we enjoyed from Donna Falcone, who tried out one of our recent prompts:

Vinyl Virgin

it was my first time – i
bought it
with my
50 cents an hour
collected
in the jar in my room

I shamelessly paraded
barefooted and bold
belting out
spill the wine
at the top
of my 12 year old lungs
turning heads
and blushing their faces
as I broadcast words that meant nothing to me
because i only heard smooth tones
and a breezy beat and
felt the melty notes
sliding up my throat
on their way back into the atmosphere

—Donna Falcone

Photo by Ian Mutto, Creative Commons license via Flickr.

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Comments

  1. Maureen Doallas says

    August 5, 2013 at 10:19 am

    Such a fun poem, Donna, especially that first stanza.

    Reply
    • Donna says

      August 5, 2013 at 12:06 pm

      Thanks Maureen! Such a surprise to be featured! That was a fun one to write! Felt playful… 😉

      Reply
  2. Maureen Doallas says

    August 6, 2013 at 9:42 am

    Enjoy “A Matter of Taste”:
    http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-matter-of-taste-poem.html

    Reply
  3. Wendy Mauro says

    August 6, 2013 at 10:29 am

    Really nice, Donna! I can picture 12 year old you – this tickled me!

    Reply
  4. Elizabeth W. Marshall says

    August 6, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    Donna, wow girl, that is fabulous for so many reasons. Thank you for sharing your gift with us. It is a sweet treat.

    Reply
  5. Richard Maxson says

    August 6, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    Pinot Noir

    Perhaps it is your color,
    roses and blackberries,
    of the warm nights,
    the young vintner
    in the field with his love,
    the body’s blush rising
    into the dry air, flesh
    ripe and taut beneath
    the spare dress,
    the press of skin—
    Ah! the sighs, the aroma
    of love, disrobed
    along my tongue, tasting
    even moonlight.

    Reply
    • Donna says

      August 7, 2013 at 7:02 pm

      Richard… nice! Such great pieces one at a time, like “my tongue tasting even moonlight” … and all together so complete.

      Reply
  6. Elizabeth W. Marshall says

    August 8, 2013 at 4:11 pm

    Canned Hands

    We played with the long green veins
    In church
    Ran our fingers down and up
    While he preached the sermon
    Children, restless
    Intrigued by the vessels big and raised
    Called them worms
    Back in the days
    Of her youth and ours
    Now she reaches out for me
    I count on them to be there
    WIsh I could bottle it up
    Or can it, place it on the top shelf
    That warm feeling
    We knit fingers, grasp and clasp
    I want to save those ten digits, flesh and bone
    Preserve the love found in them
    Can the goodness
    Preserve her love
    Better than any bottled potions that the Rite Aid sells
    A mother
    And her aging love, suspended in time
    Held

    Reply
    • Donna says

      August 10, 2013 at 10:27 am

      Oh. So beautiful. And, the way I see it, so well preserved (an now additionally, because of this poem). Thank you for sharing this…

      Reply
  7. Glynn says

    August 9, 2013 at 6:42 am

    I asked myself, can I do this? And and I said, yes I can! http://faithfictionfriends.blogspot.com/2013/08/can-factory.html

    Reply
    • Donna says

      August 10, 2013 at 10:29 am

      Ah…. clearly you can… and you DID! Such a fun poem, Glynn! 🙂

      Reply
  8. davis says

    August 11, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    poetry night

    put some poetry on your plate
    or eat it right out of the can
    no need to heat it.
    i brought a bottle of that new
    raspberry cream soda
    that turns your tongue red
    for hours,
    maybe even a day or so.
    later we can get us some
    big old pillows in the car
    and go to the drive-in after dark.

    http://nancemarie.blogspot.com/2013/08/tweetspeak-prompt-cans-and-bottles.html

    Reply

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