I understand 🙂 I think I should instead focus on poetry prompts here on WP but I don’t know about authors that offer good ones. Could you please suggest authors who post word/phrase/picture prompts for writing that I can follow, even if I can’t engage with them regularly?
Yah it’s good. She actually reblogged mine and it got a ton of likes but not on my site LOL I saw all the likes in the reader on her reblog. Had my link on it.
So true and unfortunately, a feeling that resonates with too many. Although, maybe that’s not too bad a thing. Love whether reciprocated or not, does take you on a mad ride and has a unique way to make you feel alive.
“which we chose to call poetry”… A loud, persistent voice in my head is laughing at me for choosing to call my work poetry 🤪and a kinder one gets your wise remark and is thanking you for taking the time to read my work.
In all sincerity and kidding aside, thank you! 😊
When I was younger, I used to write little poems and it was the rhymes that used to make it feel like poetry. When I got older, I read free-verse poem and listened to hip hop and realized, that’s poetry too. It’s not just the rhyming or following a fixed pattern… It’s an observation about life or an account of personal experiences, silly or sad anecdotes or tragic or powerful emotions… It’s a series of relentless strikes on the heart told in terse sentences or connected, sharp phrases. It’s a story that grips you from the start, makes you dance with it and doesn’t let go till the song is over. That’s what poetry feels like. But I don’t know what exactly it is.
You know, it’s poetry if you felt like you hit the right emotional note. I have written things that sometimes received quite a lot of likes but I personally didn’t like it or felt that it was missing something. I doubt I’ll ever call it poetry in my head. You are a poet when you are able to write exactly how you feel in the moment and you do it with utmost passion you could conjure. 🙂 Even if everyone else doesn’t agree, if the piece speaks to you, if you find it satisfying, then you have written poetry.
Though sometimes the critic in our own head gets the best of us and we undervalue ourselves. I know because I have been fighting with my inner critics for quite sometimes now. I wish I could be that kid who used to think, “because it rhymes, it’s poetry”. That kid had a lot of nerve and not much time to pay attention to the voice in her head. 😋
❤🌼
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Thank you, Jen! This one came out of a twitter word prompt: verdict. 😊
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Cool . Trying NOT to go there ..Twitter I mean LOL
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Oh, I gave an hours ago! I noted down a few prompts and then fled back to the safety of WP! 😝 You are on twitter?
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No I’m not. Don’t need another distraction LOL
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I understand 🙂 I think I should instead focus on poetry prompts here on WP but I don’t know about authors that offer good ones. Could you please suggest authors who post word/phrase/picture prompts for writing that I can follow, even if I can’t engage with them regularly?
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Willow for sure. She’s a great Lady and really nice. Good pics as well. That’s one I like
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Jen, there are too many Willows on WP. 😋 Which one are you talking about?
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Willow Poetry Helene Vailencourt (spell)
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Here https://helenevaillant.com/2019/04/02/11001/
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Got it! 😉
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Good
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Try this one see whatcha think. 🙂 That’s the one I created A TUMULTUOUS APPLAUSE for.
https://amanpan.com/2019/04/07/brewnspew-cafe-wrap-up-april-1-through-april-5-2019/
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Oooh… this looks interesting, Jen! I have saved the link.
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Yah it’s good. She actually reblogged mine and it got a ton of likes but not on my site LOL I saw all the likes in the reader on her reblog. Had my link on it.
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Wait… I didn’t see it. Let me check out her posts…
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lol
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Why not check mine LOL
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Jen… I am so bad at wordpress! I can’t find your post on your site! 😭
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in reader search Jen Goldie see if that works
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here
https://starlightandmoonbeamsdotblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/tumultuous-applause-in-response-to-brewnspew-cafes-word-of-the-week-april-1-2019-applause/
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Yeah, I found it. 😄
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Hon here’s another one.
https://godoggocafe.com/tag/writing-prompt-challenges/
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Adding them right now, Jen! Thank you so much! 😘
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No prob and follow Helene she does a lot of prompts. That’s how I found them
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Oh, I so understand that one, the thing of being condemned to live when with lost or unrequited love we’d rather die
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So true and unfortunately, a feeling that resonates with too many. Although, maybe that’s not too bad a thing. Love whether reciprocated or not, does take you on a mad ride and has a unique way to make you feel alive.
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And so inspires those many heartfelt words which we chose to call poetry
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“which we chose to call poetry”… A loud, persistent voice in my head is laughing at me for choosing to call my work poetry 🤪and a kinder one gets your wise remark and is thanking you for taking the time to read my work.
In all sincerity and kidding aside, thank you! 😊
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The question is, what is poetry? That’s not a derogatory remark, but a question.
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When I was younger, I used to write little poems and it was the rhymes that used to make it feel like poetry. When I got older, I read free-verse poem and listened to hip hop and realized, that’s poetry too. It’s not just the rhyming or following a fixed pattern… It’s an observation about life or an account of personal experiences, silly or sad anecdotes or tragic or powerful emotions… It’s a series of relentless strikes on the heart told in terse sentences or connected, sharp phrases. It’s a story that grips you from the start, makes you dance with it and doesn’t let go till the song is over. That’s what poetry feels like. But I don’t know what exactly it is.
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That is a very deep perception. I keep getting told my poetry. But me, in my eyes, I’m just a rhymer. Just, sometimes I hit the right emotional note.
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You know, it’s poetry if you felt like you hit the right emotional note. I have written things that sometimes received quite a lot of likes but I personally didn’t like it or felt that it was missing something. I doubt I’ll ever call it poetry in my head. You are a poet when you are able to write exactly how you feel in the moment and you do it with utmost passion you could conjure. 🙂 Even if everyone else doesn’t agree, if the piece speaks to you, if you find it satisfying, then you have written poetry.
Though sometimes the critic in our own head gets the best of us and we undervalue ourselves. I know because I have been fighting with my inner critics for quite sometimes now. I wish I could be that kid who used to think, “because it rhymes, it’s poetry”. That kid had a lot of nerve and not much time to pay attention to the voice in her head. 😋
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By your criterion, I am a poet when I write fiction. 🙂
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