Category: Writing Prompts

Poem offering

I did say that I was going to write something in lieu of the poem with my inktober offering. This is what I wrote. See you tomorrow with my day six inktober.

Day 5 inktober

I know that I have been posting poems with all of my inktober offerings… But today that prompt is just not doing it for me. I will be trying to do a poem later today and I will post it instead. Not sure what time, but it will be before I call it quits for the day.

Inktober day two

The prompt for today is Tranquility.

©2018 Patricia Harris

As the breeze blowing

Rocks my hammock,

I see that moment

Of tranquility,

Nothing to weigh me

Except my own mind.

Hiding in recess of this

Fantasy,

Looking at this imaginary tree.

Knowing that this island

Is far from reality,

Still for this moment

I relax into the much needed

Tranquility.

Inktober #1

Prompt : Poisonous

I started with the mushrooms,

Ground finely don’t you see.

Then I gathered leaves

From the poisonous tree.

I picked it clean,

With no thought at all,

To what that would mean.

I mixed them all up

Adding belladonna seeds,

With just enough water

To make it liquid to suit the needs.

So in my pocket is the vial,

Hand mixed by me,

Made up of mushrooms and

The poisonous tree.

What will I do?

With the vial you ask,

I will hold it safe

Until the goodbye last.

Timing and verse

So I have been very sick or this post would have been made last week. I have finished writing the poetry for Temporal Verse. I am working on layout and will be posting links soon.

I am going to be doing the inktober challenge… And I will post the pictures of it daily. However, I will likely not be posting long descriptions with. As that would make it harder for me. Inktober, for the uninformed, is a daily drawing challenge. I will not promise that mine will be the best art out there, as the challenge draws some amazeballs artists. I am going to try to post here and twitter and instagram.

Then I plan on doing the pad challenge in November, and Serena is doing Nanowrimo. So I will try to post some of the results, poetry and teasers for her. I am not going to promise that because I may not have any extra time.

I have started branching into other places to sell my books. Draft2digital offers me options for many venues. I will be next week doing a post up with the links that I have already, and I will attempt to update it monthly.

There have been discussions on doing an audiobook version of Rust, Gore, and the Junkyard Zombie as a anniversary release. If we do it, then it will be May.

I have a couple of poems from the new volume to share, I will do it in a separate post. This is mostly just upcoming news. ☺

Also, I have been posting on Facebook a poll. The title for my next volume of poetry… I am leaving in fan hands. Cast your vote.

  • Soul Drops
  • Dream Drips
  • Dream Drops
  • Muse’s Masterpiece
  • Poetic Reminders

Sharing poems

Poetry month is sadly drawing closed…

Did you write? Feel free to share!

More poems

P.a.d. Me…

Poetic rambling

It’s national poetry month… Which means that there is several places doing prompts and a great many poets are doing P. A. D. Challenges. Now, for my non poet readers, that stands for Poem A Day. I am however a bit of an overachiever. I am striving for three poems a day in April. So far I am ahead of the curve. Three yesterday and four today… But it is exhausting, so I may not be able to keep it up through the month. We will see. I will be posting at least one poem per week – some new, some already published. So keep an eye here for that.

Serena’s Rust, gore, and the junkyard zombie is already back in my editor’s hands. Pre-order is still available on Amazon. It’s going to be releasing May first.

April is going to be an exciting month… Keep watching to see.