Images and things mean different things to different people. Take an ordinary thing like glass. The words “shattered” or “broken” come naturally with glass.
Prompt: What other words can you use with glass? Crumpled glass (in my palm) comes to mind, but what would you use with glass? Take that thought and run with it.
Raw excerpt for day #6.
I am a July Midwest thunderstorm in the aftermath: pent up pressure awash with a welcome release.
I took part in a writing conference over the weekend, and during the course of the conference, participated in an exercise of random words. Specifically, participants were to give the workshop instructor random nouns. One that gave was skyscraper. It was an interesting choice, partly chosen because I had recently heard Demi Lovato’s “Skyscraper” on my IPod.
Prompt: One person did chose this word in an exercise and it conjured images of 9/11 for her. Think about the word skyscraper. What does it bring to mind for you? There are no wrong answers.
Small raw excerpt from “Isle of Sankos.” This poem will be a part of a larger cycle of narrative poems in the Dapania series.
The isle of Sankos knows no living man,
only those who perished on its golden
beaches after Dapania sang them
her song of longing, of passion, of a
desperate love she desired but lacked.
Some things are just summer. Take, for instance, the weather: hot. Think 4th of July. Think state fairs and carnivals. Think cotton candy.
With these things in mind, consider this phrase: hot candy. Think about the phrase. Think about summer and write about it.
Prompt #2: hot candy
Raw excerpt for today. I will be posting these everyday. I hope to write a marathon of 30 poems this month. Want to join me? Please do!
Raw excerpt: Your love is an unexpected snowstorm in March that crushes the tender shoots penetrating the cold ground, a defeat of the simple desire to live.
J.L. Smith 