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Writing Prompt #849

Keep going for as long as the Muse will allow:

Walking under the summer night sky ...

Artists: Depict a shooting something: Here's my shooting shoe.

Writing Prompt #848

Read this poem and then write your own On This Date Poem -Make-up the events if you don't know any real ones. It can be as short as three lines but feel free to go on.

"On This Date" by Annie Lighthart from Iron String.

On this date many things happened.
Governments were heaved into being, creeds
were repeated, maps and speeches given and believed.

There was quiet on this date. A little boy lived.
There was sleep, and one birdcall stitched all the way through.

On this date there was longing. Someone walked
through a room. One hand brushed loose crumbs into the other.
The earth received them out the side door on this date, on this day.

Artists: Draw three blind-memory birds. Make one flying out a window.

Writing Prompt #847

 

Here's your trigger for writing:

It's simple. 

Suggestions:

• Just keep going with it.
• Make a list of associations and let them lead the way.
• Make it a refrain.

Artists:

Draw something simpler than you normally would.

If you haven't been drawing, draw a simple house. Add a sunflower in the yard... and a mailbox. 

Writing Prompt #846

Make five or more observations about this Marc Chagall painting.  Then take those observations and "unpack" them even more - add more detail. Let your imagination fly. Then from the raw materials you've just created, write a poem, prose or nonsense piece.

Suggestions:

• Write from the first person: I am the one...
• Write from the point of view of the angel in the upper right hand corner or the dove with the candle.
• Ask questions about the painting - choose one or more and answer them.
• Ignore me and make up your own suggestion and follow it.

Artists: Make your own version of this painting. Suggestions:

• Make the violinist into a cat.
• Simplify it.
• Develop your tolerance for it not having to look anything like the painting or even anything good. Your tolerance muscle will free you.

Writing Prompt #845

 

For the weekend, have your daydream comment on its ability or inability to find some air time in your life. Have it make some suggestions about things you can daydream about

Suggestions:

• what would your daydream say if you could personify it 
• make a list of things to daydream about - then weave them together in a litany of daydream topics
• have two daydreams of different sorts, dialog with each other
• write a dialog between the butterfly and the woman in the painting above

 

Writing Prompt #844

Here is a list of words that want you to write them into poetry, prose or just a bunch of nonsense. I always abide when words tell me what to do because I stay loyal to my relationships.

screen door

popsicle

lawn

hammock

longing

turquoise

gravitate

not likely

what's the matter

fool hearted

laughter

certainly

solve

fine

spray

 

Here is a list of words that want you to write them into poetry, prose or just a bunch of nonsense. I always abide when words tell me what to do because I stay loyal to my relationships.

screen door

popsicle

lawn

hammock

longing

turquoise

gravitate

not likely

what's the matter

fool hearted

laughter

certainly

solve

fine

spray

Writing Prompt #843

 

Let this sentence trigger your writing either by using the sentence itself or associating it to whatever it makes you think of that would like to come out on the page:

You start to walk away.

 

Writing Prompt #842

Keep going with this sentence:

One summer afternoon Mrs. Elsie Tammer came home from a Tupperware party to find  ...