OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears
Dream or Nightmare: Have you ever died in a dream, or woken up just before? Carefully describe such an image from a dream. Use that image to explore a specific fear.
Writing a Nocturne seems like a good fit for this prompt. You may want to read Nocturne by Louise Glück.
Writober 2023
Today’s image prompt is by Korean illustrator SillDa. Is that pianist hallucinating, or is that piano haunted?
Halloween Photography Challenge
My past graves haven’t been very scary. Maybe I’ll have to make something outside this year.
Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Experience Writing 
Laura De Bernardi
Daytime Soap
Dreamscape screams
hands across mouths
body to body battle
it is dark inside
awake yet dreaming
still, a mind held
captive to realtime
events that are not
real in space or time
it’s reality television
in the lounge with
the set turned off
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I like how the last stanza reads like a CLUE solution where reality television is the murderer.
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Maria, Thank you, warmly, for your kindly replies. I appreciate the time you are taking to read my poetry, so called.
I’m finding your prompts so interesting. Of course, I know I’m writing stuff that isn’t very good. But it’s the act of writing itself, that being here in your blog is allowing, that is so interesting. I do something. I know it’s a first draft type of response to the prompt and I enjoy the process of the doing.
In this case, the poem is an attempt to describe PTSD, which can rattle the mind when asleep or awake, and which can appear to have the quality of a waking dream, the problem being, there’s no off switch.
Reality TV and daytime soaps are different genres, so if I attempted the poem again, I’d have to clear that problem up.
I don’t mean to imply that I’m being lazy and thoughtless in response to your prompts. I rarely write poetry. This is the first time I’ve ever managed a sustained effort. What I’m learning is that the mind can throw up different ideas, images, concepts, that look as if they could take the form of a poem, and that it’s good to just begin, and allow the process in a non-critical, non-analytical kind of way. I hope that makes sense.
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That absolutely makes sense and I’m glad you shared your thoughts on your experience so far this month. I often feel like these daily poems and stories are poor rough drafts on my part, but I enjoy the experimentation, and there’s usually one or two gems to polish by the end. I’m so glad to have inspired your first sustained poetry writing effort. That’s wonderful.
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So very glad to read your response, Maria.
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