weekly prompts to spur us to write poetry
Prompt 1: On Home
Being that this is our very first prompt, it seems appropriate to start with a home base. Naturally, that got me thinking about what actually comes up for us when we think, feel, create "home."
Who makes you feel at home? What do you call home? When do you feel most at home? To what time period do you automatically travel when you think of home? Where is home? Is it a physical place on our planet? Is it a place within your psyche? Why is home important to you? How do you bring this sense of home with you wherever you go?
When you imagine what you call home: What do you see? What do you smell? What do you taste? What do you hear? What do you touch?
What activities do you recall doing at home? outside the home? away from home? What sum of parts equal "home" to you? What makes home home to you and only you?
What would make you feel homeless? If you were homeless, how would you find your way home? How would you know when you've reached home? If home is where the heart is, then tell us where your heart is...
Alrighty-oh. That's plenty to get those creative juices churning. Well? Go on. You've been prompted. Now spill! Let the ink flow!!!
P.S. Please remember to tag your poem as Prompt 1. For a complete list of prompts, go to the view-only sheet here and click on the appropriate link to participate in a particular prompt.
P.P.S. Since the tagging function eludes me at the moment, after you post your poem please grab the permalink of your posted poem to this prompt and paste the url as a comment on this thread. Thanks!




Link to poem filling the prompt: Nest
Link to poem: Homeless Dub
Hmm, I think I've finally finished my poem, but there doesn't seem to be a way to post it as a separate post (at least not yet -- I think you might have to make me the kind of member that can post). At least, when I go to non-restricted communities, there's a set of posting options below the header that I don't see here.
Though I suppose people could just post their poems as comments to the prompt, and any Imzy user can do that, I think...
OK, I give up... is there a way to do line breaks in comments without doing paragraph breaks too? None of the markup options in the FAQ seem to do it for me...
Hmm. Don't know. I don't see a setting for it...
OK, that took WAAAY longer than it should have to find (bad Imzy!), but the trick appears to be hitting <spacebar> twice at the end of the line. Let's see if it works in comments, too:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Just added you as a contributor. Apologies for the mix-up! You should be able to post the poem now as a separate thread.