Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us to get
creative with the word ‘illusion’. Thanks, Martha!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
Category: Poem
RDP Monday: multitude
Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us to get creative
with the word ‘multitude’. Thanks, Heather!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
Fever Pitch: A Cinquain
Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #27.
Our inspiration word is “blaze”.
This is my mirror cinquain.
Oh! My Talons Are Killing Me!
Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #258. The prompt
word is ‘scale’. This is my limerick.
RDP Friday: boreal
Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us to get
creative with the word ‘boreal’. Thanks, Martha!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
Two Tables
Today at RDP, bushboy asks us to get
creative with the word ‘feast’. Thanks, Brian!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
Winter Day
Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #26.
Our inspiration word is “chill”.
This is my mirror cinquain.
RDP Monday: jaunty
Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us to get
creative with the word ‘jaunty’. Thanks, Heather!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
RDP Saturday: terror
Today at RDP, Punam asks us to get
creative with the word ‘terror’. Thanks, Punam!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
Time Out
Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #314
and Esther’s Laughing Along With A
Limerick #257 using the word ‘snacks’.
Here’s where the photo prompts took me.
RDP Friday: raucous
Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us to get
creative with the word ‘raucous’. Thanks, Martha!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.
RDP Tuesday: absurd
Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us
to get creative with the word ‘absurd’.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s were my mind went.
RDP Monday: flinty
Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us
to get creative with the word ‘flinty’.
Thanks, Heather! Here’s my take.
It Don’t Come Easy
Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #25.
Our inspiration word is “fire”.
This is my mirror cinquain.
RDP Sunday: sepia
Today at RDP, drkottaway asks us
to get creative with the word ‘blink’.
Thanks, Doc! Here’s my take.
Come Sail Away
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#441 where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
73 words using the word ‘cerulean’. Also for Sue &
Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge –
‘bucket’. Here’s where the prompts took me.
RDP Saturday: blink
Today at RDP, Punam asks us
to get creative with the word ‘blink’.
Thanks, Punam! Here’s my take.
RDP Friday: transcendent
Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us
to get creative with the word ‘transcendent’.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s my take.
RDP Wednesday: regal
Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us
to get creative with the word
‘regal’. Here’s my take.
Being Sicilian: A Haibun
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#440 where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
97 words using the word ‘heritage’. Here’s my take.
Blithe Spirit
Written for dVerse Quadrille #235 – Take Your Poem
For A Whirl Around The Block! Our host De Jackson,
aka WhimsyGizmo, invites us to pen a poem of precisely
44 words, using a form of the word “whirl”. This is my quad.
RDP Monday: gluttony
Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us
to get creative with the word.
‘gluttony’. Here’s my take.
Blurred Edges
Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Colour Challenge using the word ‘grey/gray’.
The prompt inspired me to write my first triolet.
Is Anybody Listening?
Written for The Sunday Whirl – Wordle #730. Our host is
Brenda Warren and these are our words: ‘ideas,
remember, words, plague, escape, faith,
strength, unity, through, arrest, cruelty, and
injustice’. Here’s where the words took me.
RDP Sunday: turn
Today at RDP, drkottaway asks us
to get creative with the word ‘turn’.
Thanks, Doc! Here’s my take.
Season Of Plenty
Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #24.
Our inspiration word is “harvest”.
This is my mirror cinquain.
RDP Friday: apparition
Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy has asked us
to get creative while focusing on the word ‘apparition’.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s my take.
Undead: A Pioneer Poem
In a Pioneer Poem, the first words of each line
are the rhyming words. Lines must be 5 syllables
or less. The last 2 lines are the same as the first
2 lines, written in reverse. Written for Esther’s
Word Prompts with the prompt word ‘edge’,
this is my Pioneer Poem.
Skeleton Boogaloo
Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #255. The prompt
word is ‘dust’. This is my limerick.
First Date
Written for dVerse Poetics – It’s Not That Scary.
Mish invites us to celebrate Halloween by writing
a non-scary poem using one of the movie quotes
provided for our first line. I have chosen the line
“Help Me. Help me be human.” from The Fly (1986)
with Jeff Goldblum. Here’s my romantic poem.
