by Dana Guthrie Martin
Whee! Whee! This week’s Read Write (Image) Prompt is full of movement.
Do you have memories of being at a crowded fair when you were a child (or even as an adult)? Why not write about what this image conjures? Are you afraid of heights or of moving too fast? (I personally am afraid of both.) You could enter into the image by thinking about heights or velocity. Do the movements of these objects remind you of anything else — giant wheels, UFOs, a mushroom cloud? The possibilities, as always, are limitless.
We just want you to write, so write, already!
Leave your ideas about how to respond to the photo in the comments section of this post, then leave links to your work next Thursday in the comments section of the Get Your Poem On post.
Fair Fireworks, by auburnnewyork
(Note: If you include this photo in your post along with your poem, make sure you credit the artist.)
Dana Guthrie Martin is the founder of Read Write Poem. She writes things and stuff. Most of the time, her things and stuff happen to be poetry, or at least they call themselves poetry. She has a robot named Feldman. He’s writing a book of poems.
Great photo!
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That’s an interesting photo. They look like woven sweetgrass baskets, not like moving things at all.
I first saw the headline as “Wheel!” and thought cool… and from the verbage about the prompt I immediately floated into one particular image….but coming back a couple hours later I see “Whee!”
When I was five-years-old I visited Disneyland with my family. “The Pirates of the Carribean” was brand new and it got broken while we were inside. For one hour, we listened and were witness/victim to “Yo ho ho ho a pirates life for me”…. a special hell for a very frightened, very gullible five year old.
That is one place I could go, I suppose…
When I was very young, my parents took me and my sisters to the World’s Fair in/near NYC. I remember eating sherbet for the first time there. Maybe I’ll write about that sherbet…
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Sharpest blur I’ve seen in a while.
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Anyone remember spirographs? This reminds me of that — a child’s toy that resulted in drawings like this.
Alas, that pasted-in moon completely ruins this image for me.
I think I posted wrong earlier this week. So still, here is my maiden voyage on post 98 (thought it was 97) , I think!
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