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Poetry Prompt: Include AT LEAST ONE of these in your poem, from Pablo Neruda’s ‘Book of Questions’. [suggestion – regard these as rhetorical, i.e. self-reflective]. I like to use as an opening epigraph with nod to the author of course

• Why was I not born mysterious?
• Why did I grow up without companions?
• Do unshed tears wait in little lakes?
• How long do others speak if we have already spoken?
• Why does Spring once again offer its green clothes?
• Isn’t it better never than late?

Poetry Style:
• Write your poem as a Ghazal*
• 5 -15 rhyming couplets

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“Do unshed tears wait in little lakes”

Streaming from a heart that aches sorrowful

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Flowing freely without sound

Shed tears disappear in lakes quiet

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Secretly letting the salty flow

Offered as a gift to keep and take saving

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The sorrow hovering inside

Set free from words I forsake depression

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Melancholy lessening then

Heart opens and awakes feelings lift

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Soothing now the tempest flow

Tears taken for my sake. relief

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**from Pablo Neruda’s ‘Book of Questions’

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MTB: Echoing Back

Your three words today are:
RUNAWAY ESCAPEE FUGITIVE

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The prison escapee ran out of the lot and into the nearby forest. The heavy New England rain pour helped hide the runaway. By the time he had gone a few miles he was exhausted and took shelter under a big oak tree. The man decided he would rather try to run than face more years in confinement. The next day the sun was shining and he felt he was safe. Then a man with a gun told him to stop moving. He stopped.

“Caught you in my forestry tree camera and checked you out. I called the authorities who will be here shortly. Sit down and don’t move.” The fugitive was tired, wet, cold and defeated.

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Three Things Challenge #M626

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It all started with a cute manual typewriter when I was fourteen years old, a freshman in high school and my first typing class. I was addicted, loved the clinking sound of the keys that I pushed down, practicing for hours. I continued the classes and used my skill in other classes, deciding on a business career. I wanted to be a journalist or executive secretary—that was my choice because at that time you had to choose between college, business or vocation, etc and classes did not deviate from that schedule.

As a result I also took and excelled at stenography which was handy in lecture classes. That led to taking tests and found they were my strengths. My first job was for the USACRREL. The first typewriter I used there was an electric with a skittering ball zooming back and forth printing. The manual I learned on was stored to use at home. I still miss the actual sound of the keys.

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Writer’s Workshop Prompts for March 7, 2024

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The swing a salvation

Flying high

Over grass and leaves and swamp

Seeing birds perched on cattails

Freedom sitting on an old wood plank

Grasping worn rope lengths secured

Wishing you could join the birds in flight

Away from all troubles

Swinging was closeness achieved.

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Poetics: Young and Green

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Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Solitude

The Ovi are in general, lyrical folk songs expressing love, social irony, and heroic events. They are written in the following scheme. 4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like. 8 syllables or less per line. Rhyming is AAAb. The second stanza would be CCCd. The third, EEEf. And so on. 

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being in high school junior class

never too soon for APs pass

testing for colleges amass

important choices loom

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Ovi Poetry Challenge 38: SCHOOL is your inspiration.

sitting on a bookshelf

next to the Christmas elf

a reminder to myself

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gifted from a local crop

promoting the idea to shop

a rose now wilted, propped 

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white now turning cream

the rose lovingly seen

with memories between

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W3 Prompt #97: Wea’ve Written Weekly

One-Liner Wednesday – Detriment?

From NPR.org:

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was born in 1945 to civilian parents in Beijing, China. His engineer father was part of an occupying workforce. When the family moved back to Japan in 1947, it was to a Tokyo that had largely been reduced to rubble in the last days of World War II.

Riken Yamamoto “aims to dignify, enhance and enrich the life of individuals — from children to elders — and their social connections,” reads the Pritzker Prize jury citation. It concludes: He reminds us that “in architecture, as in democracy, spaces must be created by the resolve of the people.”

One of Yamamoto’s most magical buildings might be the transparent firehouse he designed in Hiroshima. “The place is especially popular with children,” the architect allowed. “They like to see the fireman training.” 

It’s covered in glass louvres, so you can see the firefighters’ activities from the outside. 

The façade, walls and floors of the Hiroshima Nishi Fire Station are all constructed of glass.

A central atrium in the Hiroshima Nishi Fire Station spotlights the work and training of the firefighters. A lobby and terrace are open for public use.

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Your three words today are:
SHEEP CATTLE CHICKENS

Politics is an animal farm

Where sheep and cattle lazily swarm

Especially in the Supreme Court

Where chickens display their worst sport.

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Three Things Challenge #M624