Daily writing prompts from June 9th, 2008 to December 31st, 2022
Saturday March 30th, 2019
The exercise: Write a four line poem about: impediments. Mine: Jose lived in an isolated beach hut, The air full of sun and... salt. Which, when combined with the wind-blown sand, caused poor Buddy to grind to a... halt.
Well, it's surprising to see Buddy stopped, but I bet it's only briefly! I was also intrigued when I went back to mind to find a next verse, to see that we actually used the same rhyme idea of salt and halt -- mine last week and yours this week -- though you've done a much better job of making them work. In fact, I'm slightly envious of how much better you've done it :(
Impediments Impediments are all around: dark rocks On which a ship can run aground, pale sand- Bars where old mermaids sing; and far too close The whirlpool called The King. St. Elmo’s fire
[Yeah, this one will continue over to next week, so you'll have to wait till them to find out more about St Elmo's fire]
Greg - believe it or not, the salt and halt thing was entirely unintentional. Maybe I'd read yours and it stuck in the back of my mind, but I certainly hadn't meant to do that. Funny, how the brain works sometimes.
Well, most times, really.
I don't mind the wait. I just hope whatever prompt I ended up using for the following Saturday was workable for you!
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Well, it's surprising to see Buddy stopped, but I bet it's only briefly! I was also intrigued when I went back to mind to find a next verse, to see that we actually used the same rhyme idea of salt and halt -- mine last week and yours this week -- though you've done a much better job of making them work. In fact, I'm slightly envious of how much better you've done it :(
Impediments
Impediments are all around: dark rocks
On which a ship can run aground, pale sand-
Bars where old mermaids sing; and far too close
The whirlpool called The King. St. Elmo’s fire
[Yeah, this one will continue over to next week, so you'll have to wait till them to find out more about St Elmo's fire]
Greg - believe it or not, the salt and halt thing was entirely unintentional. Maybe I'd read yours and it stuck in the back of my mind, but I certainly hadn't meant to do that. Funny, how the brain works sometimes.
Well, most times, really.
I don't mind the wait. I just hope whatever prompt I ended up using for the following Saturday was workable for you!
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