Here we are at the penultimate prompt post. How is everyone feeling? Sad it’s ending; relieved it’s over, excited by all the creativity and wanting more? I’m feeling all of those things. I’m glad I took on hosting all three challenges. I love them all. Next year, I’ll (hopefully) be more prepared.
I appreciate every one of you that linked up your poems, photos, and stories, and the extra efforts of those that couldn’t link up. And to those who thanked me for inspiring their creativity—You made my Halloween.
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears
Lost Version Two: Write about something precious you lost. Focus on a specific object. Use all of your senses to describe the thing in minute detail. Describe both its perfections and its faults. Why was it so precious? How did you lose it? Why do you still think about it? What would you do to get it back? What would you do if you got it back? Do you actually want it back?
This might work as a Blitz poem or an Ode.
Writober 2023
Today’s image prompt fits with the Halloween Photography Challenge prompt. Why would cats want to watch that? Why gather there? What is that thing?
Halloween Photography Challenge
Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Experience Writing 
This Living Business
So many lost opportunities
in people not met, books not read
dogs not loved
So many lost opportunities
in cities not explored, paths not taken
gardens not planted
So many lost opportunities
in loves not known, hatreds not explored
kindnesses not offered
So many lost opportunities
in opportunity itself, chances not widened
good fortune(s) squandered
So much loss, is this living business
no wonder there’s so much clamour
for more these days
Strip away lifelong accretions,
the self’s a hungry beast
driven by desire
How else to be, if not to be more?
those damned opportunities
hellish is the act of becoming
Israel says so, Gaza says so
infernos of opportunity
so much precious lost
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