Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Where is Your Forest?

Where is Your Forest?

Hi, it's Peggy here this week.  In thinking up a prompt for this week.  I started thinking about forests.  Right, those areas covered with trees.


Photo by Peggy Goetz: Sierra Nevada Mountains, California


I thought about all the different kinds of forests in so many different places in the world.  Pine forests, oak forests, dense forests, canopy forests, evergreen forests, deciduous forests, alpine forests, kelp forests.

Forests can be scary, dangerous places, or welcoming or sheltering or places of escape. They can be frozen or steamy, filled with life or bleak and empty. They can be gentle or harsh.

Then of course there are other applications for the word forest: a forest of tangled wires, a forest of buildings, a forest of road signs, a forest of stones.  Or even less concrete, a forest of obstacles, a forest of fears.

Photo by Peggy Goetz: Stone Forest, China 


Many people have said many wonderful things about forests and trees so I gave up on trying to pick some quotes to inspire you all. You might just want to Google "forest quotes."

Photo by Peggy Goetz: Bamboo forest, Hawaii


So think about forests and what they mean to you. How to they feel, and smell and sound? Where is your forest? What lives in your forest?

Post your efforts below with Mr. Linky. And please visit the blogs and posted poems by our other participants as we all like to have our work read and any comment is usually appreciated.

Peggy Goetz
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35 comments:

  1. How serendipitous to find this prompt today, just after I finished a poem about my neck of the woods!

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    1. Please ignore my second link. I hit a wrong button and referred you to an old (and unforesty) poem. I hope someone can remove it.

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    2. Karen, I removed your second link. I will be around to comment on your poem in the next day or so. Thanks for jamming!

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  2. I loved where the forest took me.

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  3. I love this prompt - perfect topic for me!

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  4. I might try to write something new, but just last week I posted a poem about Death's Forest that I wrote as a teenager :) I'm not going to link to it (since it's definitely NOT new!), but I'll post the link here in case anyone wants to check it out :)

    http://danabugseyeview.blogspot.com/2012/04/deaths-forest.html

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  5. sorry i dropped my link and ran...had to get mid month paperwork turned it...out on the trail now though...

    willow, for some reason i can not get to your site...

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  6. I fixed up Willow's link. It works now.

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  7. My favorite forest is our small "benign neglect forest" in the backyard of our New York City home. Here's how we got it:

    I admit that I’m bad with a rake,
    And disposing of leaves makes me quake.
    So that pile—I ignored it,
    But then was rewarded
    With saplings—benign neglect’s wake.

    Mad Kane

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    1. Very funny, the neglecting of your small forest! I live in a townhome where everything is done for me ~ I miss the puttering.

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    2. i dont mind piling them up just to jump in and scatter all over the place...smiles.

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    3. My husband and I are great proponents of benign neglect in a number of areas in our lives - lol - it's delightful to see someone else making use of the phrase and in a literary context yet ...

      http://nsaynne.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/in-the-woods-the-stand/

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    4. Thankfully my daughter and her friends love raking leaves, so I'm off the hook for a few years. A very fun limerick!

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  8. Couldn't resist revisiting my Australian adventures and the rainforest I still dream of!

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  9. Just as an aside, this week's topic is pretty clear. Posting links to things that do not reference forests and/or Poetry Jam don't really have a place here.

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  10. Nice prompt, Peggy! It really challenged me to be creative. I came up with a "forest" photo on a whim and poem to go with it. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  11. I took mine in a different direction for all you campers out there. = )

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  12. When I think of forests I think of our mountain home. I'm glad I was able to write about it because I am missing it right now. This helps. Great challenge, Peggy.

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  13. Hi Peggy and all a PJ, sorry I'm late joining in. Mine's up now though :)

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  14. It's a long time since I visited the New Forest, but it often figures on the BBC news - not always in a manner one might wish! Your prompt set me thinking...

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  16. Finally got a response written for my own prompt! It feel like a bit of a cliche to me, but I do just love the feel of a redwood forest and visiting one is always a very special thing. I have read almost all your postings and poems so far and have enjoyed reading about your forests very much. Keep up the writing!!

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  17. Ah - I new (to me, that is) prompt site ... and as it happens, trees are one of my favourite things so ...

    http://nsaynne.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/in-the-woods-the-stand/

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  18. I have been struggling with a bit of 'writer's block,' but finally I have posted my poem written for Peggy's wonderful prompt.

    I will be around visiting the blogs of people I haven't visited already tonight as well!

    Keep those poems coming!

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  19. It took me a while to find my forest, not really surprised that it was a pretty dark place! Will be around to read everyone's poems in the next few days. Wonderful prompt, Peggy!

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  20. Glad to linking up this week ~

    Thanks for the prompt ~

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  22. I SO love your images, Peggy! Great prompt, as always! Thank you and smiles!


    http://wordrustling.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/captivated/

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  23. Hi everyone! I've been having technical dificulties all week and out of the loop. Even though I'm late to the party had to post because I had so much fun with this prompt. Thank you everyone for visiting and commenting. Peggy you are an amazing photographer!

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  24. Hi everyone! I've been having technical dificulties all week and out of the loop. Even though I'm late to the party had to post because I had so much fun with this prompt. Thank you everyone for visiting and commenting. Peggy you are an amazing photographer!

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    1. enjoyed your response...hope the tech issues go away....ugh...

      think i am caught up now as well...

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  25. cool idea, and love the photographs. i've never written a poem about a forest though i have written one about the trees in a park i used to visit as a kid.

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  26. forest is always fascinating.....

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  27. I am back from a bike ride and the forest is where I spent time camping and biking. KATY bike trail in Mo.

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