read write prompt #40: be in the moment

by Juliet Wilson

The world can sometimes seem so full of distractions that we don’t notice what is around us. This week’s prompt offers an opportunity to sit still and focus, to be in the moment and to use that as inspiration for writing poetry.

Either sit in your usual writing place, focus on what is around you there and use that as inspiration. Or take a trip out to an inspiring place — whether that is your local park, a riverside walk or a crowded city square or nightclub — and write about what you find around you. Concentrate on what you see or hear or what you feel.

Many writers feel that Japanese forms such as haiku, senryu or tanka are ideal forms to use when you want to ‘be in the moment’ — so you can use these forms to respond to this prompt, but you don’t need to! You can just as well write a stream of consciousness piece or a prose poem, or whatever you want!

However you choose to write about your moment, remember to come back on Monday to share your link!

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