by Deb Scott
This week brings a different kind of Read Write (Word) Prompt. These words are from the first stanza of one of my favorite poet’s work. I’ll tell you who it is, and give you a link to the poem these words are derived from next week, in the Get Your Poem On post. (I know. I’m a tease. It’s from writing sexy poems this week, so don’t blame me. OK?)
To write to this prompt, pick as many (or few) of these words as you want and write a poem using them. (And if these words don’t suit you, pick your own. Just write a poem, or two.)
Enjoy the week’s words, no matter whose you chose.
Deb Scott is community and news director for Read Write Poem. She is also co-managing the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. In her other life she loves to hunt for treasure, and tends to leave holes in her backyard, so don’t blame her dog. She blogs at Stoney Moss.
Intriguing, Deb! Are we allowed to guess what poem the words are from?
Deb Scott replied:
December 11th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Of course! Guess away.
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I already have a poem with one of the words from ‘word promt’ in it, and I am going to promptly enter it! Here it is:
Winter Blues
The wailing winter wind that blows a gale
Sweeps like a brittle brush scouring the land;
Rendering the autumn forests frail,
And anything else that comes at hand.
At the helm is Jack Frost, fearless and brave:
Advancing behind him a force of snow and hail.
Some of the elderly will come nearer to their grave –
Soon to be just a photograph, a memory, a tale.
Outside the window there’s a tap.
Old Jack is back.
England groans at that familiar sound
And falls down on her knees.
Like a light which takes away the dark,
What we knew before has now grown stark.
Good on the eye but cold on the feet;
Autumn’s goodbye as winter we meet.
Tap, tap, tap –
Old Jack is back.
Deb Scott replied:
December 11th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
This is great, WPW, (and perfect for the bbrrrr weather!) but be sure to come back next Thursday and post it again, so everyone has a chance to read it!
I wrote one
this is first time
Hope you enjoy it
Hi Amiene Rev, that’s great news.
Be sure to come back next Thursday (that’s when we share our poems) and leave us a link to the poem. Or leave it in the comments if you would like to do that.
Won’t
May Sarton wrote—
psychic pain? Sit it out.
Be like the trees
that give up their
leaves easily in the fall,
retreat into their roots
for renewal and sleep.
I have learned this lesson
with confusion—
let it hang there and
things have a way
of sorting themselves out.
But when something
gnaws at me
and I don’t know or
won’t know what it is . . .
Oh, there’s the rub
isn’t it?
Won’t know.
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OMG – This has been a hard one for me- but I did it and I love stretching the o’l brain to use all the words. Thanks again for the word post!
rallentanda replied:
December 16th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Good for your William.Wordles are my favourite too!Can’t imagine not using all the words.It’s like doing a jigsaw puzzle with pieces left out.
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Fun prompt!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/moon.html
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