7x7x7x7
What’s this 7x7x7x7 Prompt, I wondered. Corinne elaborates it on her blog. She says, grab the 7th book from your bookshelf. Open it up to page 7. Pinpoint the 7th sentence on the page. Begin a poem that begins with that sentence and limit it in length to 7 lines.Now, when I read the word “Poem”… I thought, Nah! This is not for me. Because poetry and me are like cheese and chalk! And soon so many like me, joined the conversation on Facebook giving creative excuses and labelling ourselves as poetically challenged. But Corinne, the most positive person I have ever met (virtually), pushed us to show our creativity in writing 7 lines too! 😀
So, here, I am pushing myself to do this creative challenge… The 7th book on one of the shelf of my library cupboard is… 3’s a Crowd by Vijay Nagaswami. The 7th page of the book reads, “variety is the spice of life”…
Here’s my juvenile 7 line poem, which is inspired by the theme of this book…
- Nothing is impossible
- Poetry is truly not my cup of tea!
If you would like to take up this prompt, hop over to Corinne’s blog and link your entry there.
January 29, 2013 3:12 pm|
Good attempt! Pretty nice for the first time.
January 30, 2013 7:14 am|
Thanks Rachna! Glad that I attempted to write this form of expression, but honestly, I dont have a flair for poems! 😀
January 29, 2013 3:29 pm|
cmon u cant say tht after spin epoetry!
January 30, 2013 7:16 am|
I know, what you mean, Meena 😀 but Spine Poetry is very different from a verse or a poetry!! 😀
January 29, 2013 4:17 pm|
Shilpa,
You say poetry for you is like chalk and cheese,
And that too after writing 7 lines like these?
Take care
January 30, 2013 7:17 am|
Thanks for kind words, Mr J 😀
January 29, 2013 5:26 pm|
Cool creation!
Well framed.
January 30, 2013 7:17 am|
Thanks Indrani 🙂
January 29, 2013 5:54 pm|
Quite good Shilpa, and you happened to have got a very easy, and famous proverb. You were lucky. I tried and found a line from Swift’s collection of essays, and it was all Greek and Latin to me.
However it is a nice way to challenge ourselves. Such challenges are a good way to boost our creativity.
January 30, 2013 7:20 am|
Yes, lucky to get a nice sentence on the 7th line of the 7th page!!
Have you attempted to do this challenge, Rama? Is it on your blog?? Checking it in a short while. Certainly, these challenges help in ensuring some heightened grey cells activity! 😀
January 30, 2013 9:46 am|
No, as I said I could hardly understand what I got, and I don’t have the patience to break my head to write a poem on a line, which was beyond my comprehension. I am too old for all this. Maybe if it was a sentence like what you found i might have been tempted to come up with something.
January 30, 2013 9:50 am|
I was reading the comments in the FB chat on this and some were deciding to take up any random book. So you too can try and pick any random book and take off from the 7th page/7th line of that book!! Go on do it!! It would be fun! 🙂
January 29, 2013 5:57 pm|
This is good! And I am tempted to try it out too, after seeing this on so many blogs 🙂
January 30, 2013 7:20 am|
Do that Swaram!! Looking forward to your take on this prompt! 🙂
January 29, 2013 6:21 pm|
Brilliant first attempt, I don’t think you can say poetry and you are like two parallel lines that never meet henceforth. Take a bow Shilpa:)
January 30, 2013 7:23 am|
That’s a huge compliment, when it is coming from you who is such a gifted poetess!! Thanks Reshma! 🙂
January 29, 2013 9:05 pm|
Hi Shilpa,
It’s great to be at your blog! I can totally relate to the reservations you had about writing poetry. I’m the same.
Your poem, however, was excellent. Well done! It just shows that we can do such things. 🙂
January 30, 2013 7:27 am|
Hi Hiten. Welcome to this space. That’s true, if you decide to do something and put in efforts, something will definitely shape up. It’s all about taking that first step! Isnt’ it?? Thanks and glad that you liked this first attempt! 🙂
January 30, 2013 3:31 am|
But in the bond of a man and a wife
It spells strife
And a trouble in paradise. (smiles)
Very nice attempt.
January 30, 2013 7:28 am|
3’s a Crowd is about infidelity, so this theme!! 😀
Thank you Kavita 🙂
January 30, 2013 5:57 am|
A wonderful rhyming poem. Versatile!
January 30, 2013 7:29 am|
😛 Thanks Anil 🙂
January 30, 2013 6:13 am|
This is a cool post. Good one for the first time.
Btw, Variety reminds me of ..umm.. “Your Blog” 🙂
January 30, 2013 7:29 am|
Ah! That’s sweet of you to say that! Thanks Priyanka 🙂
January 30, 2013 7:11 am|
Please don’t term this as juvenile.It so wonderfully written that I might enrol myself as your student
January 30, 2013 7:30 am|
Oh! You are extravagant with your praise, Mr Chowla! 😛
Thank you 🙂
January 30, 2013 8:55 am|
The first four lines were rhyming very well. The fifth line sort of deviated from the effect. The sixth and seventh lines are fine, once again. If you can replace that fifth line with something more rhyming, this will become one excellent poem 🙂
Destination Infinity
January 30, 2013 9:28 am|
I know what you mean, DI! Thanks for the feedback!! 🙂
January 30, 2013 9:42 am|
I am liking this 7*7*7*7s 😀 Tempted to take up the prompt but no…. the present books that I read will bore people
January 30, 2013 9:56 am|
You have to take off from the 7th line of the 7th page of your book, it could be on any subject/genre. Have you seen the links on Corinne’s blog? For example, Corrine has written a poem from the book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’! While Deepa has written a poem from the book, ‘Sacred Travels: 275 Places to Find Joy, seek solace, and learn to live more fully’… Go for it Bhagyashree and let us decide whether it is a bore or not! 😀
January 30, 2013 11:45 am|
Haha…loved it, Shilpa. A whole new subject for discussion too. Looking forward to more poetry and not just the spine variety from you. 🙂
January 30, 2013 3:29 pm|
You inspired us to do that, Corinne!! Thank you for activating the latent ‘talents’ in so many of us!! :))
January 30, 2013 12:22 pm|
I like the poem. It’s way too much better than my first English poem. Mine was a super childish awkward rhyme. 😛
January 30, 2013 3:29 pm|
LOL at the way you are describing your first attempt! 😀
January 30, 2013 2:14 pm|
Nice prompt and an excellent attempt, shilpa. what’s more the last few lines are what vijay nagaswami often writes about right? about marital relationships
January 30, 2013 3:30 pm|
Thanks Asha. Yes, the book is about infidelity and marital relationship and this poem was inspired by that! 🙂
January 31, 2013 5:34 am|
hey, it’s pretty good!! Hardly juvenile!
Thanks so much for helping me with my survey, btw!!
January 31, 2013 8:13 am|
Thanks a lot, Roshni, glad you liked it! 🙂
Oh, pls dont mention, it was my pleasure! 🙂
January 31, 2013 7:32 am|
That is a good one Shilpa. I love your poem.
I had a dream. On July 7 in the horse race course, on the 7th race, horse number 7. Kept coming back again and again in my dream. So I went to the race on July 7th and bet on Horse Number 7 on the 7th race.
That horse came in 7th. Hahaha. So much for my dream.
January 31, 2013 8:17 am|
Thanks SG 🙂
Oh my!! You had a 7x7x7x7 experience in real life!! And you turned your dream into a reality too!! Amazing!! 🙂
January 31, 2013 10:10 am|
This made me smile. Keep rhyming!
Btw, is writing a poem really so difficult? I feel privileged because I always found rhyming the easiest thing to do.
January 31, 2013 10:13 am|
Lucky you! That’s awesome that you can write poems with ease! For me, this was the first time I applied my brains to write a poem, also I dont like poems! 😀
February 1, 2013 12:57 pm|
Nice poem,specially the first quatrain.
February 6, 2013 10:27 am|
Thanks Pahul and welcome to this space! 🙂
February 1, 2013 7:04 pm|
Variety ka Strife se connection bounce mar gaya 😛
Well Written ma’am. Btw what’s spine poetry??
Check my first juvenile at http://surbhibafna.blogspot.com/2011/02/spreading-smiles.html
February 6, 2013 10:29 am|
Oops! Multiple partners in a marriage leads to strife!!
Spine Poetry is arrangement of book titles and arranging them in clusters so the spines could be read like a sentence(s) or poem. 🙂
February 2, 2013 4:21 am|
it ain’t juvenile shilpa – actually loved it 🙂
February 6, 2013 10:29 am|
Thks Priya, glad that you dont think of it as juvenile!! 😉
February 3, 2013 1:29 pm|
Love the idea 777 😉
and nice write shilpa!
Kappu – Happily never after
February 6, 2013 10:30 am|
Thanks Kappu! 🙂
February 5, 2013 5:40 am|
It’s good, Shilpa. Not bad at all for a first attempt. I especially liked the last two lines. 😉 Nice!
February 6, 2013 10:30 am|
Thank you so much DC. Happy you liked this first attempt! 🙂
February 11, 2013 11:30 am|
Simply unbelievable !!First attempt ‘itna sunder hai toh aage kya hoga?’ Shippa ,you are a perfectionist. Congrats! would love to see more of it.