If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Not in the Grave. For today’s images I tried something new and played with fabric under water to create a ghostly under-water grave. OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears NIghtmare Nocturnes Darkness arrives earlier each dayand against my will I tire earlier each daybecause then theContinue reading “A Watery Grave”
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Oct. 12 Prompts: Pulling Back the Veil
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of the unknown: Write a poem made of questions to which you do not want to know the answer. It might be fun to put your questions in an Acrostic form, spelling out a technical term for a certain phobia, or an answer that would frighten you. Here’s anContinue reading “Oct. 12 Prompts: Pulling Back the Veil”
Oct. 10 Prompts: Behind the Masks
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of the Other: Thinking about all the masks people wear, bring to mind someone that you are afraid of. With that person in mind imagine things that that person would never say. What is the mask he or she is wearing when she says these things in your poem?Continue reading “Oct. 10 Prompts: Behind the Masks”
Oct. 9 Prompts: Seeing in the Dark
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Afraid of the dark: Sit in a dark room. Sit long enough for your eyes to adjust, and describe what you see. If you feel comfortable and it’s safe to, walk around in the dark room. Write a poem about the experience of adjusting to the dark and why weContinue reading “Oct. 9 Prompts: Seeing in the Dark”
Oct. 8 Prompts: Connecting the Bones
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears For today’s poem, pick a piece of prose: a piece of horror flash fiction, or short story, and pick through its bones to create a piece of found poetry. You don’t have to present it as an erasure poem, but that can be fun. Here’s an example of an erasureContinue reading “Oct. 8 Prompts: Connecting the Bones”
Oct. 7 Prompts: Fear is a Monster
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of Monsters: Use a traditional Halloween monster in a metaphor. For example, “The world is a vampire,” the great opening line of The Smashing Pumpkins song “Bullet With Butterfly Wings.” Open your poem with your metaphor and develop it throughout your poem. Anyone up to the challenge of tryingContinue reading “Oct. 7 Prompts: Fear is a Monster”
Oct. 6 Prompts: In the Twilight
I’ve noticed a bit of a drop-off already. I hope it’s not because you’re not enjoying the prompts. Please let me know if there’s something you would like me to change. Be brutally honest; I can take it. I’m doing this because I love these challenges and don’t want them to end. I find fallContinue reading “Oct. 6 Prompts: In the Twilight”
Oct. 5 Prompts: Every Word a Treat
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Fear of natural disasters: For today’s poem think of the extreme weather that scares you the most (You don’t have to have experienced it). Why is it the most frightening? Imagine experiencing this weather event. Write about all of your sensory experiences. Is this weather event a metaphor for somethingContinue reading “Oct. 5 Prompts: Every Word a Treat”
Oct. 4 Prompts: The Trick to Facing Fear
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Today’s prompt was adapted from a prompt in The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer called “Help Yourself.” It says that the trick to reaching goals is to give advice to others. So with the goal of facing our fears write a poem that gives advice aboutContinue reading “Oct. 4 Prompts: The Trick to Facing Fear”
Oct. 3 Prompts: Let the Bats Out of the Attic
OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Cara Hartley, a.k.a. Ornery Owl, who joins us from Dark Hearts Love Too on blogspot made the lovely banner above and offered it for use with our posts. Today’s prompt explores how fear affects memory. Think about something scary that happened. Now, list everything you don’t remember about it. WriteContinue reading “Oct. 3 Prompts: Let the Bats Out of the Attic”
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