I doubt that the Bake-Off would be the right forum for this, but wouldn't it be outrageous fun if people were willing to write on the same theme, or to include the same elements somehow--e.g., if everyone had to slip a grasshopper and a cricket into the poem somehow, a la the recent Keats/Hunt topic on the "Musing on Mastery" board?
Or, if everyone had to parody the style of another well-known poet?
Hmmm, I could splat a Kelly-green grasshopper on the cracked windshield of a good-looking farmboy's pickup truck, while decrepit, arcane farm machinery evokes singing crickets...
Julie Stoner
[This message has been edited by Julie Stoner (edited March 29, 2003).]
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