Prompt #17: Prompt Mash-Up
The following prompts are from Bill Alton. Use them as titles, opening lines, or combine all of them into a single poetic form.
1. My body is a speakeasy
2. Morning comes without the sun.
3. I loved him most when he asked me to leave.
4. Pain is the mind’s way of burning through fear
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Reminders for Participants: You can post your poem below in the comments, offer a link back to your site where the poem is posted, or comment about the experience of writing the poem (without actually posting the poem). If you’re going to comment on other participant’s poems, please remember that this is not a critique space — comments should be kept thoughtful and supportive. Lastly, remember you don’t have to use the prompt to write your poem — they’re here for your inspiration but they’re certainly not a requirement.
Let the Wild Poeming Being!
Not at all to any prompt but inward today…
Searched for you:
was hunting dolphins
in the wind;
listened through low
hand-holds of night;
caught your remnant song
in heart surge
and solar plexus;
breathed behind the
pounding morning, not welcoming
the dawn…
Some days, I just can’t look the world
in the eye.
J. Pratt-Walter
April 16, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Beautiful, Jennifer!
April 17, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Beautiful Jennifer!!
April 18, 2011 at 8:41 am
Drifted off somewhere before I got a chance to look at the prompt.
http://nikkimagennis.blogspot.com/2011/04/strip.html
April 17, 2011 at 9:25 am
Not from the prompt, but from a science news item that caught my eye.
BARCODING ZEBRAS
Which should actually be stated
as ‘reading zebras as barcodes’
is what intrepid software geeks
are already doing. Stripespotter
it’s called and is now on its way
digitally to a Serengeti near you
It is, they say, available for tigers
and giraffes too, though IMHOP
the giraffe version should rightly
be re-designated as Spotswiper
Do you feel foreboding, friend?
It seems to be too late to worry
April 17, 2011 at 11:46 am
Bill – I love the last two lines on this one.
April 17, 2011 at 12:45 pm
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I used the prompt today! http://dorlamoorehouse.com/2011/04/17/napowrimo-day-17-4/
April 17, 2011 at 12:56 pm
really liked this dorla!
April 17, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Balancing Act
Take away all feeling
and what is the motivation
to get out of bed?
No happiness, and morning comes
without the sun,
no sorrow, and gratitude
would disappear,
pain is the mind’s way
of burning through fear,
and pleasure, spirit’s garden,
sown with love.
April 17, 2011 at 2:00 pm
This started with some blog comment spam, morphed into a couple haiku and then this:
You are my inhalation
Inhalation
the breath flowing in.
Arc down
the sudden cold
then warm below.
That taut skin
between air and water
sliding over the curves
smoothing the face.
The small bubbles
running up and out again.
The silk embrace.
The pull back to air
and
the inhalation
the unstoppable
gasp after the lips part.
Mary Beth Frezon 17 April 2011
http://www.artsroundup.com/wp/?p=2970 to read the whole shebang.
And how about this great quote:
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. — Virgil Thomson
April 17, 2011 at 6:23 pm
One more time around…
quickshandy
kickstall
procrushinate
April 17, 2011 at 6:49 pm
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Great lines in this prompt, will definitely use soon. Today’s poem:
http://jacquezyon.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/poem17-this-flesh-inspired-by-pablo-neruda/
April 17, 2011 at 8:12 pm
To the prompt:
My morning body
loved him the most–
burn pain away
at the speakeasy of the mind;
no sun but that of love.
It burns the most,
burning though fear…
J. Pratt-Walter
April 17, 2011 at 10:42 pm
A SAD Sonnet
Morning comes without the sun
Its damp embrace a thuggish slap
Across my face. Like every Mon-
day’s weather, its the usual crap.
I don’t know why I go to work
On darkling days that lack the light
I need to function. Madness lurks
At every turn when day is night.
My doctor says that I should try
Wellbutrin, but I must admit
That thoughts of having no sex drive
Depress me. Make me feel like shit.
Room lighting filled with skylight blue
Seems more appealing, in my view.
April 18, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Here’s the day 17 one – thought I posted this:
http://mizadventurez.blogspot.com/2011/04/mash-up.html
April 20, 2011 at 8:18 am
I tried my hand at this prompt. The result is at: http://sadlywaiting.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/i-am-sorry-about-my-fear/
April 22, 2011 at 5:31 am