Greetings, lovers of
words. I hope inspiration has been haunting your writing space, leaving you
ready to ink and share... Today’s prompt came to mind some weeks ago, when Magical Mystical Teacher posted the following haiku:
fingers framed by light
clutching an old rosary
carved of human bone
I’ve always found
that MMT has a way with short poetry. She is so good at leaving the reader’s
mind (all
right, my reader’s mind)
wondering about what took speaker and subject to the moment captured in the
poem, and what might happen to them next. That sort of wondering is what brewed
today’s prompt into being. We will have three choices (choose one, choose two,
or choose all three):
1. Write poetry or prose which explores where the bones in the poem might’ve come from.
or
2. Write poetry or prose which shows why the subject is clutching a rosary made of human bone.
or
3. If one and two don’t entice your
ink, write poetry or prose inspired by the poem.
As usual, our Weekly Scribblings ask for new poetry or prose. This prompt will stay open until next Wednesday. One link per participant, please. If you choose to contribute prose, the word count should be 369 words or fewer. Let us write (and read)!
Magical Mystical Teacher, thank you for letting us be inspired by your words.
Amazing! I have always felt I'm not a fiction writer – but, to my great excitement,this prompt led me into a fictional story explaining your first and second questions. But it needs to be a two-parter, so you'll have to wait until Sunday for the second episode.
ReplyDeleteIKR? This was a really juicy one to bite into.
DeleteI am so glad I wasn't the only one who went for fiction the moment I started thinking about this prompt. I created two pieces for it, a short story about a bone collector and the tooth fairy poem I shared. I can't wait to read your bit, Rosemary!
Delete@Rommy, Nom, nom, nom...
I am looking forward to reading both parts, Rosemary!
DeleteThanks for a lovely prompt Magaly. A happy Wednesday to all
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Thank you, Gillena. Happiest Wednesday to you, too.
DeleteI'm excited to try this prompt. I, too, was impressed with that haiku when it was first shared with us. :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
DeleteDidn’t write a haiku, just a short 3-line poem focused on “d’em bones”.
ReplyDeleteOh well, it was almost there anyway, so I edited it down to a haiku.
DeleteYou didn't have to write a haiku, Rob.
DeleteWow! That was an interesting challenge!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Margaret. MMT's poem invites interesting, I think. :-)
DeleteIt is late - will be back in the morning to read and comment on everyone's responses!
ReplyDeleteHope you had a good night and a better day.
DeleteThis was a fun write, thank you and MMT. I posted second write tonight. The first is rough, unfinised off. I didnt like it so this one tonight. Still it 'bulges' in wrong places. Also not, well ...
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I'm still wondering about your Luke... So many years went by before the speaker figured out where he was.
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