For today’s prompt, write a suffering poem. A person or animal in the poem could be suffering. The poem itself could be suffering.
Taos Mountain
Loyal Companion
A low moan in the distance
Becomes a wail
Then a howl
Hard to hear
Mixes with the wind
Is it injury or death
Does it matter
Sometimes it is in the land
Over time
Suffering becomes memory
Shapes who we are
A universal experience
A loyal companion
Today is a Two-for-Tuesday prompt. Write one of the following (or both):
IN SEARCH ON AN IDEA
Do I hunt for the idea
Or does it hunt for me
Inspiration:
The light bulb goes on
Eureka moment
Incubation:
Leave it alone
Subconscious takes over
Weights possibilities
Execution:
Make it visible
Judgment:
Work must be made visible
Before judgments are made
This is the creative process
But it begins only after the idea
Has arrived
Before I was aware of the idea
Had it been hunting for me
Pad Challenge Day #8 For today’s prompt, write an instructional poem. Your instructional poem could list instructions. Or it could capture an instructional moment.
HOW TO BECOME AN ARTIST IS THREE EASY LESSONS
First is desire
It is said perhaps 60% of people would like to paint
Then determination
Many people are determined
But the most important factor is discipline
I am sure I need not tell you
Few have the discipline
To become the artist
To try and to fail everyday
Tomorrow to do it all again
These are the vestments you will wear
You will wear them until they are thread bare
The journey will be long
As long as you have
What you seek is a way of life
Often one is not enough
There will be much satisfaction… and frustration
The only way you will totally fail
Is to quit
Close the studio door
Never to return
#7 Prompt: Write a sevenling poem.
Can’t sleep
Toss and turn
Worry worry worry
Should I do this
Or that
Worry worry worry
Time rushes ahead like a crowd
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Sunday Whirl
merge, project, activate, technology, unity, mantra,
smudge, sing, delicious, inquisitive, urge, stellar
(Image from the Internet)
Quiet….The Mouse is Sleeping
Computer won’t work
Mouse is sleeping
Stay calm
Projects can wait
Activate all that you know
Technology over my head
Merge the frustration
Unity of one with the other
Mantra said over and over
“The Buddha is calm, I am calm”
Take a deep breath
Sing a delicious song
Back to the computer store
For the third time
Inquisitive about
Why did it work yesterday
Won’t work today
Urge to kill
Then it decides to work
All is stellar again
Just a small smudge
On a perfectly wonderful
Spring day
Have learned nothing
But mouses need a little
Nap too
merge, project, activate, technology, unity, mantra,
smudge, sing, delicious, inquisitive, urge, stellar
(Image from the Internet)
Quiet….The Mouse is Sleeping
Computer won’t work
Mouse is sleeping
Stay calm
Projects can wait
Activate all that you know
Technology over my head
Merge the frustration
Unity of one with the other
Mantra said over and over
“The Buddha is calm, I am calm”
Take a deep breath
Sing a delicious song
Back to the computer store
For the third time
Inquisitive about
Why did it work yesterday
Won’t work today
Urge to kill
Then it decides to work
All is stellar again
Just a small smudge
On a perfectly wonderful
Spring day
Have learned nothing
But mouses need a little
Nap too
Writer’s Digest Pad Challenge NAPOWRITEMO
#6 For today’s prompt, write a post poem. Post could be short for post office–or traditional mail. Post could be a wood or metal post. Or post could mean relate to words like postpone, post-punk, or whatever.
(Anonomous)
DON’T STUMPLE OVER SOMETHING BEHIND YOU
The job is before you
It does not matter
What you did yesterday
It is your past
What have you done today
There are always mountains to climb
Things to clean
Love to give
Letters to post
Much to accomplish
Prompt #5: Write a plus poem.
Fragments, Geometry, and Change
Color selected
One shape at a time
One drop of paint at a time
Brighter or duller
Warmer or cooler
Lighter or darker
Each shape carefully rendered
Hardedge
Flat
Unexpected color in juxtaposition
Create unique visual statement
Prompt: “Hold that Blank.”
#4 Pad Challenge National Poetry Month
“Hold that……”
Hold that apple
Red like blood
Bright and shiny
Hold that bear
Brown and furry
Don’t let him go
Hold that cat
Small and fleet
Hold that dog
His Mom left him
By the stream
She had so many children
She didn’t know what to do
Hold that elephant
No easy task
Hold that falcon
Get him in sight
As he rises on the thermals
Hold that gorilla
And he will hold you back
Hold that turtle
A living box
In your hand
Hold the world
Tenderly as a lover
Prompt: A tentative poem.
#3
I DO NOT KNOW
You ask if I know
Am I sure
My answer
Is no
I do not know
I walk on ice
Is it strong enough
To hold my weight
I do not know
I jump off high places
Flap my wings
Can I fly
I do not know
I wet my brush
Dip it into paint
Will it be a masterpiece
I do not know
Is the color “right”
I do not know
Is it a worthy thing to do
I do not know
It is because I do not know
I travel with confidence
I take a chance
I reach beyond what I know
My answer is now
And will always be
“I do not know”
#2 Prompt: A poem about when your life was a train wreck.
(Image from the Internet)
Broken Pinata
Pinata breaks
Contents scattered
Across the floor
Burned and kept
In hopes of good luck
Blindfolded
Alone
Traveled West
Walked the
Handrail of the
Rio Grand Gorge Bridge
Balanced the ashes
Took a deep breath
One foot in front of the other
Prompt: Write a bright poem or a dark poem
#2
CONTRAST
In the visual world
When the artist
Wishes the viewer to
See one thing
He must show the other
For the viewer knows
Nothing
To show brightness
Dullness must be shown
A bright color used next
To a dull color
Will make the bright color
Look brighter
Until Matisse discovered
Dark could show light
Dark was always used
To show dark
The key is to show
Contrast
In my own work
I am contrasting
Light to Dark
Bright to dull
Warm to cool
And back again
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