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Why do you write? Is writing poetry like breathing air?
I am enjoying my life of words. Poetry can lead me to places I've never thought possible.
Poetry is the key, the key to knowing yourself better, to saying what can only be said between the lines of the last breath and the next. It's how you can find your way back to center.
Can you go long periods without writing poetry and still feel sane?
I think poets write because it's only half a life without it. I write because I feel out of sorts, discombobulated, inside-out, grumpy, and life just makes more sense when I'm writing.
The past couple of months I've probably written more than I have in the last year and a half and I have to say I was quite depressed without it. Since I've been writing more I feel clear-headed, probably because I've been vomiting the words onto the page and out of my head. Still too many words are cluttering my mind, but I'm getting there.
Prompt Questions:
What does it feel like when you aren't writing?
I am enjoying my life of words. Poetry can lead me to places I've never thought possible.
Poetry is the key, the key to knowing yourself better, to saying what can only be said between the lines of the last breath and the next. It's how you can find your way back to center.
Can you go long periods without writing poetry and still feel sane?
I think poets write because it's only half a life without it. I write because I feel out of sorts, discombobulated, inside-out, grumpy, and life just makes more sense when I'm writing.
The past couple of months I've probably written more than I have in the last year and a half and I have to say I was quite depressed without it. Since I've been writing more I feel clear-headed, probably because I've been vomiting the words onto the page and out of my head. Still too many words are cluttering my mind, but I'm getting there.
Prompts:
Free write for ten minutes stating, "We write because we must" and see where the words lead you.Prompt Questions:
What does it feel like when you aren't writing?
What does it feel like when your muse electrified your inspiration?
Image Prompt:
Image Prompt:
Photo from publicdomainpictures.net
Word prompts:
Write
Muse
Inspire
Poetry
Possible Poetry Type: Shape poetry from shadowpoetry.com
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Morgan Dragonwillow, author of Wild Woman Waking & Dancing within Shadow, is a Bodywork transformer, dancing poet, motivator of words, magical instigator and creatrix of #OctPoWriMo & #PoetsonthePage. Discover what else she's up to on her website, Wild Woman Writer.
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And my poem for today is,
ReplyDeleteMy Muse Supercharges Me
pearls were my muse today.
ReplyDeletehttps://theartistsdate.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/poem-day-2-of-31.html
Yay! Thanks for sharing.
DeleteWe Write Because We Must
ReplyDeleteMy poem for Day 2: https://wordswithannie.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/my-heart-needs/
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing with your words!
DeleteThis one had to be written today: https://unassortedstories.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/prince-data-miner/
ReplyDeleteI can see why, thanks for sharing.
DeletePeace,
Morgan
My poem for Day 2 http://musingssurvive.blogspot.in/2017/10/rusted-thoughts.html
ReplyDeleteLove that you chose the photo prompt. Thanks for sharing!
DeletePeace,
Morgan
My poem for Day 2: http://tao-talk.com/2017/10/02/day-2-why-do-we-write-octwripomo/
ReplyDeleteDay 1: https://indoketut.wordpress.com/
ReplyDeleteI didn't follow the prompt today: I Drift Away
ReplyDeleteHere is my second post. Tried shadow poetry after long. https://whisperingwithwords.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/we-write/
ReplyDeletehttps://mandibelle16.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/octpowrimo-day-2-poem-free-verse-of-terror-the-dying-amwriting-poetry-yegstrong-vegasshooting/
ReplyDeleteMy stream of thought was of the events in Alberta Canada and in Las. Head. They make me ill.
Just a short one from me today:
ReplyDeletehttp://biancasbookblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/octpowrimo-day-2-we-write-because-we.html
I actually wrote two poems today. Or let's say one last night, and one tonight. Thanks Morgan for allowing me to share your space, since my blog is private...
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https://mandibelle16.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/octpowrimo-day-1-music-challenge-poem-writing-in-malibu-poetry-musicchallenge-amwriting/
ReplyDeleteHere's mine for today: https://februarywriter.blogspot.com/2017/10/octpowrimo-day-two-words.html
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting this event!
On behalf of poet, Sudha Reddy:
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Poetry is the free flow of words,
Inspired by the pure thoughts with in
It is the expression of the free spirit
That is expressed purely for oneself
Then the poetry writing is meditating....
Which is amusing to the soul....
Poetry is the free flow of words.....
There is no compulsion on free spirit.......and that is Divine.
Not what I'd planned to write today, but it had to be said. I Write Because I Must ... https://seekingmeme.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/i-write-because-i-must/
ReplyDeleteMy prompt for Day 2
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My poem for today is "Writing Equals Freedom" and can be read
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'Bloodletting'
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#OctPoWriMo
2/31
I wonder what my medical colleagues will think of this one.
My Day 2 poem
ReplyDeleteSource: From Phoenix to Las Vegas
Sorry if this double posts...
http://missdragonlady.blogspot.com/2017/10/octpowrimo-day-2-haiku-humour.html
ReplyDeleteLovely idea, using haiku. Mine is just a ramble
DeleteThank you.
DeleteAlmost too late . . . but here is my poem for today's prompt. Not the easiest poem to write! But we persevere, right?
ReplyDeletehttps://bethandwriting.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-2-maybe-first-time.html
Great poem :)
DeleteMy day 2 post
ReplyDeletehttps://mpjethwa.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/o2-octprowrimo/
Comments and Suggestions welcome !
I went, I read, I commented.
DeletePeace,
Morgan
Apologies, was at work and then poetry group last night! Here is my day 2 attempt :) loving this so far by the way 😊 https://scribblesfrommetoyou.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/515/
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying it! Thanks for sharing!
DeleteDay 2 and I'm already sweating https://hittingthemark-jones.blogspot.ca/2017/10/uninspired.html
ReplyDeleteIt's okay to sweat, just keep on writing. You can do it!
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ReplyDeleteI lost sleep over this poem - more images and ideas than I ended up writing. I may have to submit a part 2 at some point... Such is my Must
ReplyDeletehttps://zwabisabi.blogspot.com/2017/10/must.html
My original version repeats the line My Must before most stanzas... Do you think it works better with or without the repetition?
DeleteMy
Must
started
early
earlier
than most
My Must
Came
in
screeching
hot
leaving
thick
sanguine
promise
stains
on
my
sheets
My Must
Flowed
unfiltered
angst
against
my
spiral
bound
secrets
My Must
Tugged
stylus scalpel
against
abandoned
sinew
My Must
Severed
familial
keloid
ties
Now
My
Must
smiles
She serves
Borgia's
best
wine
in
old lace
paper
goblets
etched
with
No. 2
lead
Definitely with, I like this a lot. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteThis is my piece for day 2. It is brief, dark, and heavy. If anyone would prefer to avoid darker works, then here is the link to avoid.
ReplyDeletehttp://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com/2017/10/octpowrimo-2017-day-2-ship-of-lost.html
A lot of my poems are dark also. I went, I read, I commented.
DeleteI forgot to share this here day-of. Day 2: https://instagram.com/p/BZxLUzbncHD/
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ReplyDeletehttps://thoughtsandentanglements.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/northern-lights-2/
a trilonnet from me :)
ReplyDeletehttps://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/day-2-we-write-because-we-must-octpowrimo/