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When Touched By Dreams
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2, Prompt #424 – Hey, That’s My Line! #6 “Today we return to one of our favorite exercises: Take a line from someone else’s poem posted at Poetic Bloomings and, for the moment, make it your own. … Continue reading
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Tagged ages, dreaming, happy, Inspired by another poem, nightmare
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Persistance
Written for: Friday Writings #15 – “After” Another When you write a poem heavily influenced by another poem you always acknowledge it with the word ‘after’ and the original poet’s name. One also sometimes sees, ‘After Reading [name of a … Continue reading
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Tagged fighting, Inspired by another poem, moving, personal, rebellion, Thoughts, uncertainty
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Fun Things To Do
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 Prompt #349 A “Shel” of Your Former Self THE LITTLE BOY AND THE OLD MAN By Shel Silverstein Said the little boy, sometimes I drop my spoon. Said the little old man, I do that too. … Continue reading
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Tagged book, colors, Inspired by another poem, little girl, old woman
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An Old Song Plays In My Mind
Written for: Poetic Bloomings, Prompt #338 “Hey, That’s My Line” #5 “Take that “I wish I had written that” line from one of the poems posted at Poetic Bloomings, or of a poem you love, and for the moment, make … Continue reading
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Tagged Inspired by another poem, song associations, twenties
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Crows Calling At Night
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: China-Kingdom of the Poem (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) “The Poetics’ Challenge here is: Select any ONE of the above poems and with as many re-reads as you need, imagine what the poet has … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, Inspired by another poem, music, reinterpretation, sadness
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Your Life
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #323 Playing Favorites #6 ‘“Playing Favorites” is as simple as choosing a favorite poet/poem (world famous or just famous in our own little garden) and picking a line or title of one of their … Continue reading
After The End
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Beginning at the End (posted by Laura B.) “For this Poetics prompt I’ve selected some final lines of poetry. Choose ONE and write your poem as continuation where the poet left off, thematically, in … Continue reading
Finding Space
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #52: Something About Mary (posted by Rosemary) “One of the things I did in the break was lots and lots of reading. And one of the things I read, cover to cover, … Continue reading
Protection
Written for: Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #42: About Those Bones . . . (posted by Magaly) “Today’s prompt came to mind some weeks ago, when Magical Mystical Teacher posted the following haiku: fingers framed by light clutching an … Continue reading
Greyness Lifting
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: The Charms of Samuel Greenberg (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) “Searching for inspiration for this Poetics prompt, I first fell upon Rimbaud which led me to Hart Crane who surreptitiously resurrected an “impoverished, proto-surrealist … Continue reading
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