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W3 Rookie Turned This Week’s PoW: Here’s The New Prompt

Hiya, all. What do you know? Beginner’s luck is real…  It’s me, Selma.
My cup runneth over with gratitude for this lovely honor. Thanks, Kerfe, David,
and all.

For starters, this is the poem that made it happen for me. If you read it, thanks
so much; if you didn’t, here it is again. And thanks, too.

Blog response to Kerfe’s Feb. 22nd Prompt at W3

W3 Poetry Prompts run weekly at The Skeptic’s Kaddish, since April 2022. It goes
live on Wednesdays. And this new week, I’m the PoW– Poet of The Week! How very cool, huh! And I get to decide the guidelines, so here they are:

W3 Prompts. Prompt #44: Wea’ve Written Weekly


First, I’d like to make you aware of Sundress Publication, an Instagram account,
that posts writing prompts all year long. This week’s prompt for W3 March 01st
comes from one prompt from that source I read/wrote for a while back in one of
Maureen Thorson’s April 2021 NaPoWriMo prompts. I hope you have fun with this
one. 

The Prompt:

  • Write a ‘prose poem’ in the form of a news article you wish would come out
    tomorrow (imagine it will come out tomorrow).


Rules:

  • Format your ‘prose poem’ like breaking news 
  • Give it a bold attractive title; A beginning/middle/end
  • Make it a Good News account of something that will benefit us all
  • Use strong, positive VERBS
  • Add enough detail to make it believable/relieve us of some stress
  • Not short, but not too long
  • Have fun. Happy Writing! 

Aside:
National Poetry Month is celebrated in April;
World Poetry Day, an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), is a day to appreciate and support poets
and poetry around the world. It’s held yearly on March 21st.

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” ~ Plato

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,
a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

~ Robert Frost

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,
I know that is poetry.”

~ Emily Dickinson

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that.
Poetry is a subject
as precise as geometry.”

~ Julian Barnes


Give it your best shot, dear lovely people. Pen for us some good news poetry the Universe will notice and help manifest for us in one of the many tomorrows to come soon.

“What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry
or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry — but Good Poetry. And the
dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own sceptical mind, is doubt
about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in,
in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.” ~ G. K Chesterton

So, as David says– Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing! *wink*

To participate this week, March 01st, please click on THIS LINK at The Skeptic Kaddish Website where you’ll find Mr. Linky to add yours and find the work of other weavers following the week’s prompts.

Take a look at these lovely submissions in the order they came:

Keep It Alive: Sadje

A writer in the room: Aboli Mane

Light motifs: Paula Light

The bag lady: Cheryl

Poetisatinta: AJ/Ange

Destinysdesignz: Destiny

Submissions are open until Monday, March 6, 10:00 AM (GMT+3)
See you inside? I hope so.

Selma Martin
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This Post Has 14 Comments

  1. Sadje

    Very interesting prompt

    1. SelmaMartin

      Sadje, I’m so happy you found it interesting. And you wrote to it. Thanks.

  2. kittysverses

    Interesting prompt and congratulations Selma. 🙂

    1. SelmaMartin

      Kitty dearest. Thanks for thinking it so. Woulda loved seeing your wea’ve on this one. No pressure. Thanks so much for reading mine. Xoxo

  3. ben Alexander

    This is such a fun prompt, Selma ~ thank you! <3

    ~David

    1. SelmaMartin

      K, dearest. Thanks. And I loved — adored yours as well. I declare world peace! Thank YOU!

    1. SelmaMartin

      Aww, thanks so much for saying. Got any good news? 🚀

  4. Sadje

    Thanks for the mention Selma.

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