Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! Dessert has been on my mind a lot lately. I have a lot of friends and family members with April birthdays (including myself). Between that and the seasonal joy of sakura everything, and I've been living the sweet life for the last few weeks.
So for this week's optional prompt, I'd like you to write about a dessert, desserts in general, or just use the word dessert in your piece. The floor is open to both fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose. Just be sure to keep your entries to 369 words or fewer and one entry per person, please.
Next week, We shall invite you to find inspiration on your bookshelf. Interpret this anyway you like (take a picture, explore the titles, the arrangement of the books... and write on).
I may have mentioned that I'm a devoted subscriber to The Red Hand Files, in which musician Nick Cave answers questions from his public – any questions. I like his music a lot, though not enough to be besotted nor even to know it well, and I forget how I came across The Red Hand Files, but I love these pieces of writing for their honesty, thoughtfulness, kindness and genuine humility. Also I guess I just like his mind, as revealed in them. There's an innate, albeit intangible Australianness which I naturally respond to, but he is of course an individual as we all are, and I like his individual quirkiness too.
Anyway, see for yourselves! Please have a read, right now, of this recent post. Go on! It's not long, and much of what he says applies to poets as well as singer-songwriters. Besides, you need to, to fully understand this week's prompt.
This week's (optional) prompt: Having read the piece, please tell us, how would YOU answer ‘this most dark and demoralised question: “This world has no meaning. Why fucking bother?”’? (Yes, it's OK to agree with Mr Cave's own thinking on the matter.)
Guidelines: Poetry
or prose, old or new, on prompt or not, 369 words maximum (excluding
title and notes), one post per person and link to that post below.
Please link to us here at your post, please read what the rest of us
submit (not forgetting to check back for those who arrive at the end of
the week) and leave us some encouraging comments. You are of course
welcome to make comments or ask questions here too.
And here's something pertinent by another brilliant Aussie, the late and beloved Michael Leunig, who was both cartoonist and poet:
Next week: We shall ask you to write about dessert(s)!
