Intro
Dear friends,
Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live 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 read before participating in the prompt.
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 five 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:
‘Escape’, a symetrelle by Destiny
her silence smiles in secret as she rides the waves to reach the sky and seizes the winds to help her fly she climbs wispy clouds of a waning twilight to swing from the moon freewheeling at midnight her laughter gentle, tease the angels in flight as she races shooting stars across the night impossible when caged, they all sigh dreamy, her eyelids blink her reply her silence smiles in secret
II. Destiny’s prompt guidelines
- Write a poem using the memento poetic form
Memento poetic form?
A ‘memento’ is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas. Each of the two stanzas is:
- Six lines;
- Syllabic: 8-6-2-8-6-2;
- Rhyming: a/b/c/a/b/c.
Potential variations for W3
- Feel free to add an extra stanza;
- Do not confine your words to an anniversary or celebration;
- Rather, explore a moment or an emotion, should your thoughts wander there.
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.
Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, April 24, 10:00 AM (GMT+3)
Last week’s W3 poem
This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Destiny, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which Jane Aguiar wrote:
‘Deaf And Dumb’, a limerick by Jane
Deaf and dumb had a talk that was brave Deaf asked, will you give bio as i gave Lipread,it will be grace If you don’t try to trace My eyes will now show, how much I crave
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