 Poetry: July 30, 2025 Issue [#13271] |
This week: Prompt-ly Edited by: Fyn  
More Newsletters By This Editor 
 
1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~~Khalil Gibran
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~~Oscar Wilde
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. ~~Walt Whitman Words are but pictures of our thoughts. ~~John Dryden
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~~Edgar Allan Poe
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. ~~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A picture is a poem without words. ~~Horace
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. ~~Ogden Nash
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ~~Percy Bysshe Shelley
|
There was a prompt last week for 'a locked door.' An idea popped and I was off to write. But then, after poem 1 was finished, another, totally different direction idea flared into being. Wrote that one. Okay, on to other things I needed to do. Oh, but wait!!! Idea number three said it needed to be written right away! (Sigh). I've learned there is absolutely no point in argueing with a poem that insists, 'Write me NOW!' Okay, should (?!) be fine now.
Get started on uploading a book to KDP. Operative word being 'start' as the page (Amazon) was having difficulties and advised to return later. They couldn't post a thing on that page telling one that it wasn't working . . . no, they let you fill in a gazillions parts and THEN tell you it 'still' isn't working. *grumble, grumble POUT! sigh.*
My brain makes an 'in-brain, not so quiet comment about being 'locked out' and whooost...' another poem bops into being. O well, Amazon needs to wait anyhow...
So, I ended up with four poems from that one simple prompt. Of the lot of them, I ended up 'liking' the 3rd one the most, but I'm pretty happy with all four.
It's fun when a simple prompt runs rampant and all this writing flows out. I'm thinking that it was also responsible for my new trilogy to be started. Barely, but I'm already on Chapter 4, so there is that! The weekend devolved into my sign reading - 'Writing--do not disturb unless dead, dying or bleeding to death!' being hung on the nail dead center (every pun intended) of my office door and said door being closed. Oh, but wait! I have a newsletter that needs writing...
So now I'm working on this, getting geeked about whatever this week's prompt is and making myself not go see if it is posted yet!
SIDE NOTE: Sign up for the next Promptly Poetry Challenge are opening soonest! A year's worth of once a week poetry prompts with us having (needing, wanting, enjoying) to write a poem per week - for a year! 'Sounds' like a huge investment timewise, and it is, I suppose . . . BUT So very enjoyable and I have loved it just so, so, so, SO much!
|
Have an opinion on what you've read here today? Then send the Editor feedback! Find an item that you think would be perfect for showcasing here? Submit it for consideration in the newsletter!
https://www.Writing.Com/go/nl_form
JCosmos  writes: when I was in high school and college, I participated in the speech and debate team - my specialty was impromptu speaking, where you are given three prompts and 30 seconds to come up with an idea and express it in a five-minute speech! In a way, that is how I approach my writing - I love prompts and use them to provide a frame and let my muse run wild! When I am done, I go back and edit it, but keep the improvisational feel of the underlying poetic prompt!
oldmonty says: I hate prompts but can come close to them often without really following them. (Road less traveled)
|
To stop receiving this newsletter, click here for your newsletter subscription list. Simply uncheck the box next to any newsletter(s) you wish to cancel and then click to "Submit Changes". You can edit your subscriptions at any time.
|
This printed copy is for your personal use only. Reproduction
of this work in any other form is not allowed and does violate its copyright. |
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
Send Email