Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Weekly Scribblings #42: About Those Bones...

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 mightve 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.

17 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. IKR? This was a really juicy one to bite into.

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    2. I 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!

      @Rommy, Nom, nom, nom...

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    3. I am looking forward to reading both parts, Rosemary!

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  2. Thanks for a lovely prompt Magaly. A happy Wednesday to all

    Much🌻love

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    1. Thank you, Gillena. Happiest Wednesday to you, too.

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  3. I'm excited to try this prompt. I, too, was impressed with that haiku when it was first shared with us. :)

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  4. Didn’t write a haiku, just a short 3-line poem focused on “d’em bones”.

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    1. Oh well, it was almost there anyway, so I edited it down to a haiku.

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    2. You didn't have to write a haiku, Rob.

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  5. Wow! That was an interesting challenge!

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    1. Thank you, Margaret. MMT's poem invites interesting, I think. :-)

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  6. It is late - will be back in the morning to read and comment on everyone's responses!

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  7. This 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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    1. I'm still wondering about your Luke... So many years went by before the speaker figured out where he was.

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