Intro
Dear friends,
Welcome to our second W3 Poetry Prompt, which will we shall be publishing on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.
You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:
Part I
The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants respond to in verse.
Part II
The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.
Part III
After four days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.
Simple enough, right?
Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!
I. The prompt poem:
‘Decision time’ (an etheree) by Britta Benson
Hope, drip, drop, godless trust, just like water. Watching chemo flow… Plastic pouch above mum, wasting hours, tick, tock, plop. She feels better, worse, final. Pray to whom it may concern, drip, drop, stop. Become flood. Become ocean. Become peace.
II. Britta’s prompt guidelines
- Write a poem on the theme of time.
Free verse or form? Your decision.
Ten lines or less, mine.
I like simple. I like short.
I like sounds far beyond the tick and tock of clocks becoming clocks.
III. Submit: Click on ‘Mr. Linky’ below
In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.
Last week’s W3 poem
This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Britta, was in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which I wrote:
‘Now, or: Horizons’ (an etheree) by David ben Alexander
now office final day mixed emotions years of memories coworkers become friends small comfortable office creaky black desk chair & my mess much to throw away before I leave walls crumble and reveal broad horizons
I love it this Britta and David and you know I will but I’m still trying to digest the rules as a free verse girl 🤷♀️🤷♀️
But Britta’s guidelines say you can write free verse… Just any poem on the theme of time…
I did see that actually .. sorry I’m a little brain dead from the week!
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Please remove two of my entries. I did not intend to submit it three times. Thanks.
done! 🙂
thank you for joining us, Nobe!
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David
I’m not sure I would ever want to be the PoW if I was to ever get picked. It seems like a lot of pressure. I like the idea though and will probably participate!
Christine, it’s all in good fun ~ no pressure!
Much love,
David
Totally with you, Stine… I’m PoW this week and as much as I feel honoured, I also feel a bit weird having to pick one poem out of all of these amazing creations. What a great and privileged problem to have! I have no idea how David finds the time to manage his blog the way he does, not only creating so many beautiful pieces but also responding to all the comments. I’m beginning to suspect that there is there more than one of him.
Congratulations, Britta. Very moving verse.
😌 I agree!
Thank you so much. Looking forward to reading your poem!
You are welcome and thank you!
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Glad to land here on my maiden flight of words, David. Great prompt idea 🙂
Just submitted my entry for the theme.
I’m so glad you have decided to join us, Radhika ❣️
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Beautiful, heartfelt poems. I really enjoy these prompts. Just submitted my piece to the link!
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[…] I am linking this to the W3 #2 prompt with The Skeptic’s Kaddish, which this week has been set by Britta Benson, to write a poem on the theme of time and in response to her beautiful Etheree ‘Decision Time’ . Visit the site here for more details: ( https://skepticskaddish.com/2022/05/11/w3-prompt-2-weave-written-weekly/). […]
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I felt time dripping as i read the poem.
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