OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears
Fear of the unknown: Write a poem made of questions to which you do not want to know the answer.
It might be fun to put your questions in an Acrostic form, spelling out a technical term for a certain phobia, or an answer that would frighten you. Here’s an Acrostic I wrote in April 2022:
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Ephemeral visions of non-corporal flight
X-ray film echoes reach through the weakened veil
Phantom fingers tapping and tickling the darkest hour
Reflexive tension shivers jump at each bump
Each clunk and bonk and creek and wail
Specters of possible horrors dwelling in an anxious mind
Suddenly all too real and tap, tapping at the window
I become the fool in the film searching out the sound
Only to find a trapped hawk moth tormenting cats outside the screen
Nefarious ne’er-do-wells slink back into the shadows drenched in dawn
Writober 2023
Today’s image prompt is a horrifying scene. What is behind those doors? Do those hands belong to a victim or a perpetrator?
Halloween Photography Challenge
Veil is a new prompt this year. It will be fun to see what I discover through the veil, or when I pull the veil aside.
Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
There’s a movie called The Veil from 2016 with Jessica Alba and Lily Rabe.
I took a look on amazon to what kinds of veils they have that might be good for Halloween costumes and found some really cool ones.
Experience Writing 
Laura De Bernardi
Questions For Which I Don’t Need Answers
Why is the sky blue and the grass green
And why does green rhyme with mean
And a teen can preen, be seen and feel like a queen?
Why do said, read, and bled look different but sound the same
With team and teem following along in the name game?
I could go on but you get my drift
Why is language such a gift?
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This was really fun. Very good questions. 😊
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Thanks, Maria! Another great prompt! I’m scratching my head at how you come up with so many!
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Once I landed on Facing Our Fears as a theme, I found it easy to adapt prompts I’ve enjoyed, and that led to thinking of other ideas I thought would be fun to try. I’m so glad you’re enjoying them. I am too.
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