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Day 9 Poem a Day Challenge

Good Morning Everyone! I hope someone, somewhere is enjoying some sun.

Today’s prompt – Searching for something

 

Searching for the Light

 

All our lives we are searching for the light

We live our lives in the dark hoping for just one moment in the sun

When that moment comes we raise our face to the heavens,

out stretch our arms and soak it in

So bright we can not see

but can not look away

For all too quickly the light is gone

and we are plunged back in to the dark

We continue to search day after day for those moments of light

Once we have experienced the light we must have it

There is nothing else like it

We must find it

When we think we see a glimmer we scramble and claw our way to it

Not caring what or who might get in our way

We are all consumed by the search for the light

Knowing it is out there in the world waiting to be found, to be claimed

To claim it as our own

To hold it tight

The light lifts us up and takes us away from our everyday

The promise of a better moment in time

To be out of the dark

The cold and pressing dark bringing us down

But the light raises us up and makes us whole

Keep searching for your light

For we can never stop

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at Searching for something. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

Have a great day and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Challenge Prompt Day 8

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope your weekend was amazing. Today is a non-school day so the boys are enjoying sleeping in. But not me, I’m up writing poetry.

Today’s prompt – Forever

Forever

Of dark and light appear

With fortune and despair

With agony and longing

With love and hate

With peace and war

With icy wind and pouring rain

With ice upon your heart and rain upon your face

Lonely and desolate

Wanting what you have lost

Wishing this never happened

Because of foolishness she is gone forever

With only you to blame

You took her life away

You always said you cared

But you drove to fast that fateful night

You lost control and so it went

She died that very night

Now you stand over her in the pouring rain

You try to cover her face but the rain and tears still make it through

You love that sweet face

Why oh why did I drive so fast

The rain, the road, the curve

You can still hear her voice

LOOK OUT !

Then the horrible crash

Now her voice is silent

Her lips never to say I love you again

Never to laugh, never to cry

I’ve silenced them forever

What am I to do without her?

How can I go on living now she is gone?

They came to take her away

My pain deeper with every step, with every inch I move away

She is gone and I am to blame forever

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at Forever. I was at the barber shop with my husband this weekend and 50’s songs were playing. Very tragic young love. It’s the only reason I can think of why I wrote this poem the way I did. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

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Poem a Day Challenge Day 7

Welcome to day seven of our challenge. I hope you had a great Saturday. Other than writing poetry, the family and I went to Home Depot and built bird feeders. Then of course we had to buy bird seed. Now we have two very nice bird feeders, which will make the birds extremely happy.

Today’s prompt – Read Write Poetry

My attempt

Read Write Poetry

Real is how you feel

Every time you love

Abandon your inhibition

Declare you are ready to explore

Wonder in the world around us

Right down to your toes in the sand

Insight to the universe

Time is

Endless

Purity of soul

Over rationality of mind

Emotion of the heart but still be

True to yourself

Raw are the nerves you’ve exposed

Yelling at the top of my lungs I proclaim

Read Write Poetry

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at Read Write Poetry. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

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Day 6 Challenge Prompt

You’ve made it to the weekend. Congratulations! Don’t get distracted by all the fun house chores you need to do. Make time for writing poetry today.

Prompt – Weathering the Storm

My attempt

Light House

The storms maybe rough

But we’ve weathered them all.

The sea is our friend, our neighbor,

Our protector

Breezes thought our cottage homes nestled in our lush green paradise.

Bobbing boats in the bay like jewels upon the water.

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at Weathering the Storm. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

Have a great day and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Poem a Day Challenge Day 5

Hello Friday and day five. How are you feeling about your first four poems? Put them behind you for now and focus on today’s poem.

Prompt – Deep Fried Goodness

My attempt

Potato Chip

Dip, dip, potato chip

Dip, dip, potato chip

Dip, dip, straight to the hips

Yeah, I said it

Those darn chips are so good,

Then you plunge them into the creamy dip

And then straight to the hips

Why do all the unhealthy foods taste so wonderful?

The crisp of those wonderfully salty rounds.

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at Deep Fried Goodness. I never said my poems were going to be good, but I have fun writing them. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

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Day 4 Opposites

Welcome to Thursday and day four of our challenge. Remember while writing your poem you’re not going for perfection. You’re writing a draft. There will be false starts and do overs. Just focus on writing a poem, not on perfection.

Prompt – Opposites

My attempt

Darkness and Light

In the darkness there is light

A light so bright that you cannot see

Like in a trance you walk its way

The light seems to grab you and pull you in

In the light your senses come alive

The air smells fresher as you fill your lungs

The sky is bluer, the grass is greener

The flowers smell sweeter

A warm breeze flows over your body caressing every inch of you

All your stress, all your worries are washed away

The feeling of unbounded joy over whelms you

You leave the light and feel refreshed ready to face the world again

Everyone has a light in the dark

You must find it out

Just open your eyes and it is there

Open your heart, open your mind and it will be there

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at opposites. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

Have a great day and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Day 3 All Mixed Up

Day three is here and I hope you are having fun writing your poems. Here is today’s prompt.

Prompt – All Mixed Up

My attempt

Backwards Forwards

Swimming diving floating

Swirling spinning gliding

Over and under, under and over

Spinning whirling around and around

Time goes forward

Times goes back

Time stands still, always moving, never going

Looking forward, looking back, looking nowhere

Sitting here, sitting there, sitting nowhere

Smiling and frowning

Frowning and smiling

Always seeing never knowing

Crying laughing, laughing crying

Never caring never knowing

Swimming diving floating

Swirling spinning gliding

Over and under, under and over

That is how this all began and how it will always be

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at all mixed up. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

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Day 2 Saving the World

Good Morning. How did day one go? Are you happy with your poem? Remember you don’t need to use the prompt I provide. You are free to lump it and write what you feel. Here is today’s prompt.

Prompt – Saving the World

My attempt

Saving the World with a Safety Pin

There is a ripe in the space time continuum

What are we to do doctor?

We have to realign the gambol with the force tachometer

With what?

Just push the red button

Nothing happened

Yelling at me won’t help

I can see something happening

Take the core and throw it in the reactor

Are you crazy? That will kill us

So will the rip do it!

No, I know what we need

We need a safety pin, they fix everything!

 

Well there you have it. My attempt at saving the world. Have fun with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

Have a great day and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Poem a Day Challenge Day 1

Welcome to the first day of the Poem a Day Challenge. For the next thirty days I’ll post a prompt and my attempt at it, to celebrate Poetry Month. I hope you enjoy the challenge, good luck and have fun.

Prompt – Getting Goose Bumps

My attempt

Why I Love Tartans

Green rolling hills

Broken stone walls scattered about

A well-trodden dirt path

To an unseen castle ruin

Faint on the breeze you can hear there mournful sound.

Louder and louder the song came to ear

Over the ridge they did appear

The marchers played their pipes

Together as one

No matter your clan

Did not matter today

All tartans were there

No one forgotten

The force of a hundred bag pipes

Pounded your ears

Goosebumps rise upon your arms

And along your spine

A tear upon your cheek

The sweet music of years gone by

No fighting this day

All united

The sight of tartans in review as they all march by

Your eyes close, breathing in the sound in the air

When your eyes open they are gone

Only their memory remains

 

I hope you enjoyed my poem to the prompt. Good luck with your poem today and I hope to see it posted here.

Have a great day and see you tomorrow.

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Keep the Momentum Going

Let’s keep your writing momentum going with a few more story starters.

  • Exactly how low can you go when you limbo?
  • How can we be out of toilet paper?
  • You threw a rock through whose window?
  • Garden gnomes, do I have to say more?

Be prepared, next week I’m going to ask you to edit what you’ve been writing. Have a great week writing.