read write prompt #9: traveling companions
by Deb Scott
I’m glad you’re here, reading this prompt.
Participating in online poetry communities is a strange and interesting experience. It’s a private practice made uniquely public. It’s quite likely that only a comparative few will read the work we put out there in the blogosphere; fewer still will comment. Yet we keep finding and creating sites like Read Write Poem and we keep writing and reading our poetry. We keep creating communities of poetry.
So this week’s prompt is to write something about your companions, companions on a trip. It could be a real trip: your little brother who bugged the crap out of you on family road trips; the sickly sweet smell of cigarette smoke fogging the windows of your parents’ car when you went sightseeing to the Grand Canyon. Perhaps you hitched with a boyfriend way back when. Or maybe you just wanted to. It might be humorous or silly or so sad you can’t even think about it and can only write. Or maybe you go off on a tangent.
Tangents are good, follow one, with someone.
Take a trip with someone, somewhere. And tell us about it.
Or write something on an entirely different subject this week. Just come back and tell us about it next week, starting Monday, when we post Get Your Poem On #9 where you’ll give us your link to your poem in the comments.
Just be sure to check your tires. And remember to take along a few tasty snacks. And water. Oh, wait, that’s my trip …
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In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog.
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Thinking of all those decadent snacks makes me want to take a road trip, just me and my dogs. Moon pies for me, rawhides for them. Thanks for this prompt, deb. You sparked several ideas with your suggestions
great prompt
Thought I should mention there is a lit journal looking for poetry on just this theme! Here’s the link: Tattoo Highway
Deadline is 1/15, however!
Mission completed. Thanks for the prompt.
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