These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Restriction. OctPoWriMo Today’s Meeting the Bar prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to create kennings and use them in your poem. Kennings are compound expressions with metaphorical meaning, like “oar-steed” for ship, or “whale’s road” for sea. I think that hyperbole and kennings willContinue reading “Fearing Control and Loss of Control”
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Freeing Restrictions
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Restriction. OctPoWriMo Limited Restrictions This room is not the smallest roomThis wood chair is not the hardestI don’t know what I’m doing hereThe rules won’t be too restrictive It’s not the strangest rope I’ve feltNot the tightest knot ever tiedI’ll wriggle out eventuallyThe rulesContinue reading “Freeing Restrictions”
Paralyzed by Fear of Paralysis
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Paralysis. OctPoWriMo Paralysis She wears a tangy-sweet perfumethe orange blossom tree in springher voice a nightingale—unanimously accepted to bethe sweetest birdsong—sings a funeral dirgechanting: if only, if onlya flutter, flutter, flutter If I could speakI would tell herI’m here and I’m tryingI’m telling myContinue reading “Paralyzed by Fear of Paralysis”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Hope’s Tollbooth
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Rejection. OctPoWriMo No Fear of Rejection The suits push the Benjaminswith the zeroes and onesand if you don’t play alongyou’re just one of the numberssubtracted as a costof their living The rejected and discardedthe husks and the chaffedshuffled and scuffleduntil some new mouthpiecefrom someContinue reading “Hope’s Tollbooth”
Reclamation
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Abandonment. I really enjoyed how the prompts came together today. Like my experience with my photo-walk yesterday, looking for fear of abandonment made me think about its opposite, reclamation. When a building is abandoned, nature reclaims it. When objects are abandoned, they may laterContinue reading “Reclamation”
Experience Writing 