weekly prompts to spur us to write poetry
Prompt 10: On Scars
Okay, everyone has scars and varying levels of scars. Scars are the visible and invisible effects of certain causes set into motion.
How do you define this scar? Is it a physical mark (intentional [e.g., tattoo] or unintentional [e.g., a scrape of the knee]), an emotional hot button, a similar hiccup in the road, a mark on a building, a dent in the sand bucket or a missing piece of a trowel? Maybe it's the car that you no longer drive because of the dent it got in its engine or . . . perhaps it is an explosion of a meteor or a shower of stars that "scar" the nightsky's path?
Or perhaps it a road that you plan on never traveling on again because the path has been taken down and something else is erected in its place? Or maybe there are too many memories down this "memory lane" -- too many "scars" . . .
Is there a particular moment you recall or a certain set of circumstances that eventually led to the scar's existence? Anyone or anything in particular that set these actions in motion?
What kind of thoughts, images, moments come to mind? Are you solo or are you with someone or do you have something tangible/intangible?
What time of year, season, night, day? What do you see, smell, taste, hear, touch? Are you indoors? outdoors? What else surrounds you? Describe.
Is there something that you've learned about yourself, the situation, the object, the scar? To what do you honor or dedicate your scar? Any hidden meanings that you'd like to make visible?
That's it! You've been prompted. Now spill ink! :-)
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