Screams All The Way Down

These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Loss of Autonomy. OctPoWriMo Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub and the prompt word is “light.” For today’s poem, I was sure that my Artist Magnetic Poetry Kit would have the word “light,” but to my shock and horror, it did not.Continue reading “Screams All The Way Down”

Fear of Loss of Autonomy

Welcome back for the fourteenth day of Writober. Hard to believe we’re already in week three and exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy. Fear of loss of autonomy is the fear of losing the ability to do things for yourself, to physically or mentally lose control of your own faculties. This could happenContinue reading “Fear of Loss of Autonomy”

Haunting the Haunted

These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Haunting. OctPoWriMo Writober Flash Fiction A Jail Behind My Face It started with a hard, itchy spot on the side of my right cheek near my earlobe. I couldn’t help but scratch at it, even when it would bleed. I must have even beenContinue reading “Haunting the Haunted”

Fear of Haunting

Welcome back for the thirteenth day of Writober. It’s Sunday, and the last day we’ll be looking at the universal fear of separation. Fear of haunting isn’t only the fear of lingering spirits taking physical form, it’s a fear of lingering thoughts and feelings, memories and regrets. By looking back at this week’s fears, theContinue reading “Fear of Haunting”

Lonely in a Crowd

These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Loneliness. OctPoWriMo Loneliness Arrives Uninvited not a lone wolf but a skunk in a funkor a slug on a sofaslimy and staleslowly oozingleaving sticky trails not a peacock but anamoeba, a parasite of painlike knives stabbingfrom the insideonce it gets init never wants toContinue reading “Lonely in a Crowd”

Fear of Loneliness

Welcome back for the twelfth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring the universal fear of separation by looking at fear of loneliness. After looking for fear of isolation yesterday, but finding fear of being alone, today I’m wondering if fear of loneliness is also different from fear of being alone. I think it is. IContinue reading “Fear of Loneliness”

Isolated Incident

These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Isolation. OctPoWriMo Today’s poem was really fun. During Friday Gathering we did a revision exercise. I looked back at the poem I wrote on October 11th last year and used n+7 on some of the words, meaning I looked up the word in theContinue reading “Isolated Incident”

Fear of Isolation

Welcome back for the eleventh day of Writober. Thank you to everyone who has been linking up their poems, photos, and stories. You are making this year’s event so much fun. Today we’re exploring the universal fear of separation by looking at fear of isolation. Isolation may be physical or social. Some use isolation asContinue reading “Fear of Isolation”

Sounds in the Darkness

These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Darkness. OctPoWriMo Today is Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub, so link up today’s poem, or your favorite poem you wrote this week. Sanaa also provides a mini prompt that fits nicely with our fear of separation prompts: Consider this line from EdnaContinue reading “Sounds in the Darkness”

Fear of Darkness

Welcome back for the tenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring the universal fear of separation by looking at fear of darkness. Fear of darkness is a part of fear of separation because in the dark we can’t see anyone or anything else. In that respect we are completely alone, and we fear any noisesContinue reading “Fear of Darkness”