Although I don’t use prompts per se, this one is a synchronicity!
Here’s my poem This Halcyon, written in my Goddard West Coast MFA and published as the end poem in my collection Into the All Empty (Chatwin Books) ten years later.
Thank you Aimee, for your guiding light there and here, and for recommending my substack.
I don’t work that great with prompts either and my substack flow is so full I don’t read every week. HOWEVER, the prompts I do read often reinforce something I want to add into my current work, to try to stretch myself into… I think if you enjoy them weekly, why not?
I don't use the prompts, but I read them anyway. They don't annoy me either. I am always curious to see what you're going suggest. Then I get on with whatever it is I need to get done.
I am not at a loss for discovering what to write about. I don't have time to write about ten percent of what comes to mind. I also don't have the experience and skill to tackle most of my ideas.
I suggest you keep up the prompts unless you believe you could put your time to better use by working on alternatives.
The current weekly schedule.
Although I don’t use prompts per se, this one is a synchronicity!
Here’s my poem This Halcyon, written in my Goddard West Coast MFA and published as the end poem in my collection Into the All Empty (Chatwin Books) ten years later.
Thank you Aimee, for your guiding light there and here, and for recommending my substack.
This Halcyon
On the cusp of the fourth and fifth worlds
things can feel a little out of whack,
with no more hold than tendrils on barbed wire
but this halcyon has a soft center
when evening pours into the night
out to a shine beyond our ring.
This thing, this Pangea, how do I
put it back, so jigsawed in the rift?
And where’s this bird by time elided?
Looking out, the white sky and I
lose thought
as something unexpected rushes in.
The stories leave it out
but I believe
it’s this softness, like
the sound of wings, the stunned hush
when a new world’s sighted
and eyes widen as she sings the past
into a pile of ash, ready for the wind.
How marvelous! Synchronicity indeed. Perfectly aligned! And so lovely. Thank you, Susan.
I am so busy writing I dont use them but i do read and observe the images. Honestly feeling overloaded. Thanks for checking in.
I don’t work that great with prompts either and my substack flow is so full I don’t read every week. HOWEVER, the prompts I do read often reinforce something I want to add into my current work, to try to stretch myself into… I think if you enjoy them weekly, why not?
Thanks Marika, the group seems to be generally agreeing with you. We shall see!
I don't use the prompts, but I read them anyway. They don't annoy me either. I am always curious to see what you're going suggest. Then I get on with whatever it is I need to get done.
I am not at a loss for discovering what to write about. I don't have time to write about ten percent of what comes to mind. I also don't have the experience and skill to tackle most of my ideas.
I suggest you keep up the prompts unless you believe you could put your time to better use by working on alternatives.
Thanks John. I appreciate that perspective. Seems like others agree with you! TBD