Poetry Fishbowl today!

Have you ever participated in a poetry fishbowl? Somebody writes poetry to your prompt! If you have a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account, log in, tell Ysabet you are a new prompter, and ask for something in the theme today, language shaping thought. Make it simple today, and you may get a new poem quickly.

Today's theme is "language shaping thought." I'll be soliciting ideas for linguists, translators, philosophers, social engineers, making decisions, being unable to make decisions, describing ideas, debating what to do, framing options, manipulating people with words, solving problems with language, plot twists, libraries, schools, offices, halls of government, writer garrets, other places where people work with language, misconceptions, truths and falsehoods, dire warnings, inspiration, catchphrases, linguistic oppression or rebellion, invented languages, rare languages, dormant languages, vocabulary words, and poetic forms in particular. But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have the first edition of Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms which covers most common and many obscure forms.

http://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10201871.html