Ok I couldn’t do today’s prompt. It just didn’t speak to me…. So here is poetry written today instead.
If you want to try the prompt… Go here.
Category: inspiration
Robert Frost
This is the only one by him that I really like.
Day Three Emily Dickinson
Perhaps my most favorite of hers.
Day two Emily Dickinson
I am struggling with the prompts for today so I don’t know if I will be posting my poems today …
The prompts for the pad challenge are here.
National poetry month Emily Dickinson
Remember that I said that I would be posting my favorite poems this month? The first few days will be from Emily Dickinson. I have always loved her verse. She spoke to my heart as a teen, and nostalgia keeps her as one of my favorite poets. 💜
Friday prompts
Today I am doing poetry prompts.
1) weapons
2) Injuries
3) ladybugs
4) hair
5)wealth
6) scams
7) pets
8) shoes
9) memories
10) sewing
Comment your poetry or email to Iampublishd@gmail.com to be featured on my Monday poetry. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Thankful Thursday
Tomorrow will be absence from me, and I will explain. My mother and two of her sisters are coming Saturday to visit me. I have been sick, so my house needs attention. I feel crappy still, but I have to get it to where I won’t be as embarrassed. I have not gotten to see my aunts since I was a teen, and it has been a couple of years since I saw my mom. So I am fairly certain that they are not coming to see my house. Still, I can do that last minute sweep and straighten.
I debated, with all that I have going on today about just sliding into next week. I really considered it. I decided that I would be letting everyone down with out at least explaining.
I think that I am thankful for all that the blogging and writing have brought me in my life. And I am always thankful for family. So I leave you today with a question. What are you thankful for?
Tell me a story
Today I think I want you to tell me a story. So I know how hard that is so I will ask questions to help. Hey, consider it a birthday present.next wednesday is my big day.
1.) Who is the story about? This is the most important part. Without a who, the story really will fall flat.
2.) What is the story about? Here is the reason, the details of it.
3.) When does the story take place?
These are three questions that every writer asks themselves with every story. Plot issues can be fixed in editing…but without these three answers the story doesn’t happen.
Submit your story. Email it to patti.mouse@gmail.com. I will feature the best one here on a future blog post. Also…you want to be a featured poet…email me with an example of your work to be considered.
Temporary Temporals
How fleeting life can be. A string of moments, all connected with something called a lifespan. I recently got news about a friend who is fighting cancer. It hit harder than I ever could have expected any news to hit. She is younger than me. And it feels damned unfair. Now mind you, as usual, she has it under control. She has always had it under control.
It seems like it is easy to react from outside of a situation with righteous indignation, and fear. Those two emotions cause us to fail to see the weight we put on the one inside with each question. Sometimes, it would be kinder to just be an ear.
It’s hard to be just an ear when we want to scream frustration. It will pass but what damage do you do to those around you as you fight to calm yourself down?
That is the stage I am in. I am fighting to remind myself that this too shall pass. It is not about me, and I have to learn how to be there for her. I have to not let my own fears come between me and supporting her. It is Damned Unfair, but life is not about what is fair. It is about learning, loving, and creating. So I wish for all of you…
May you love deeply,
May you learn happily,
And may you always
be able to create beauty!
Friday poetry prompts
1.) Write a Haiku about a shoe.
2.) Use two of these words in one poem:
Religion, Angel, Dust, sanity, sin, knife, bleed
3.) Freestyle prompts
Dreary, educate, joy, spark, flame, ball, coffee, book, vape, cloud
Send me your poetry here! For a chance to be featured on my Monday poetry.
