I was running on my trampoline, when
my fairy godchild (her chosen label, not mine), called
to ask, “Where’s cliché?” And I, most likely influenced by the fact that the
end of my workout was near and I was tired enough to drop, responded, “Cliché is
where exhausted phrases go to die.”
The exchange was jumping around my
skull, when the time for coming up with a topic for the 6th Weekly Scribblings started to
breathe down my neck. I remember thinking, Hey, why not go all Mary Shelley
on clichés and ink a bit of resurrection? And that, my dear poets and
storytellers, is what inspired today’s prompt: Turn
Cliché into Poetry or Prose. Take one cliché, two clichés, three
clichés, or as many clichés as you like and turn them into new poetry or prose (stories, articles, letters…).
Feel free to use your chosen cliché(s) as a foundation for your poetry or prose. Or make them part
of your contribution, literally. The choice is yours. As always, if you go for prose, your
piece should be 369 words or fewer. Let the resurrecting of phrases begin!
Follow this link to the “The Internet’s Best List of Clichés”.
Please feed the direct link to your poem or prose piece to Mr. Linky. Remember to visit other poets and storytellers. This prompt will remain open until Friday at 11:00 am.
