HAPPY HaLLoWEEN!! It’s here. IT’S HERE! All our fun has built to this one last poem, one last flash, one last Halloween photo shoot and then Halloween will turn into November.
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears
Let’s end with the prompt I wrote as a warm up, “You Don’t Frighten Me.” If you tried it the first time, try a combination of the other options. Inspired by Maya Angelou’s “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me,” here are a few ways you could use this poem as inspiration:
Subject:
- You can write about something that most people are afraid of but you aren’t, and express why it doesn’t scare you.
- You can write about something you are afraid of but use the poems to convince yourself and others that you are not afraid.
- You can write about something you’re not afraid of, but maybe should be, and explore the pros and cons of being afraid of it.
Form: This poem also has a fun rhyme scheme with a refrain. You can follow the form of the poem with any topic you choose. Notice the change in the fifth stanza where her rhyming couplets tell of her action and the scary things’ reactions. How do you keep fear away?
Writober 2023
This final image is like a possession or obsession, like these prompts lingering and festering in your minds. MWAHAHAHA!!!
Halloween Photography Challenge
Please link to your creations in the comments. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
HAVE A WONDERFUL HALLOWEEN! AND COME BACK TOMORROW FOR MORE CREATIVITY.
Experience Writing 
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Poems from the last of the month!
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Laura De Bernardi
Gratitude
For fear bested
by poetry prompts,
ingenious.
What fun to consider
perspectives, from inside to out
and the music of the night
or light, a spider crawling.
Villians and monsters
truly a happy mix, trailing
loss in forests, haunted.
A supreme quality, hidden
in all the aesthetic fuss,
courage.
To put pen to paper
finger to keyboard,
give words a
whirl.
To say, this is what
it’s all about, however
lame the attempt.
No matter.
Fail.
Fail better.
Said a great man.
With thanks to MB
for so pleasing a lesson
that poetry writing,
while daunting,
can yet be done.
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Thanks, Maria, so very, very much! The effort you put into so many different prompts, and your own work – all so colourful, inventive and packed with resources – for a wonderful 31 days, deserves applause! Wishing you all the best for your next endeavour, or endeavours, as you do seem to be a plural rather than singular sort of woman! Wishing you also a well earned rest and your choice of celebratory beverage! I will toast you tonight, from afar! Laura
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Thank you, Laura. I’m so glad you stuck with OctPoWriMo through to the end. I enjoyed your approaches to the prompts. Are you going to continue your daily poetry with the November Poem a Day Chapbook Challenge? You’re on a roll. No reason to stop now.
I hope you’ll continue to come by Experience Writing to see what I’m up to and say Hello. And I’ll look forward to writing with you again next year.
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I didn’t know about the Chapbook Challenge. I’ll take a look, thanks. Doing this with you in this easy going way was a pleasure.
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What a great summary of all our month of fear facing. I think that might be the first poem with a mention of me in it. Thank you.
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