Aloha and welcome to Day 5! I'm Tamara and I'm giving you the next prompt. I hope you've been enjoying your OctPoWriMo so far. Let's keep this thing going!
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| Tamara Woods |
Today's topic: while I was pacing the floor.
I don't often pace. I'm more of a tapper or a leg shaker when I have excess energy. I'll pace for a moment and then quickly start washing dishes or cleaning something. Just something to try to focus my mind and my body. The apartment never seems big enough for pacing.
When I saw this prompt, I thought about trying to lose a problem, but never getting rid of it. It's dogging my steps. Sticking to me like a shadow.
Try brainstorming when was the last time you paced. Did you pace alone? What was the trigger? Is it nervous energy? Is it trying to physically emulate what's happening inside? While you're pacing, are you thinking, or are you just concentrating on moving? Was there something that was dogging your steps?
Word prompts:
shadows walk with me
keeping the pace
between then and now
moving to breathe
pacing happy thoughts
Image Inspiration:
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Tamara Woods was raised (fairly happily) in West Virginia, where she began writing poetry at the age of 12. She published her first poetry collection, The Shaping of an “Angry” Black Woman in 2014 and is working on her first fiction novel due out in winter 2016. She is the Editor of The Reverie Journal, a poetry publication. She also moderates #writestuff a weekly writing Twitter chat. You can find her on Twitter here. She works as a full-time freelance writer and doesn’t post nearly enough her blog PenPaperPad. She creates videos about books and writing on her YouTube channel. She is a hillbilly hermit in Honolulu living with her Mathemagician.
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I kept it light today. The Music Began to Stir My Soul
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I managed to misread the prompt :) This is where that led me: https://unassortedstories.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/poeting-the-floor/ It's a short one, my head's not in a writing space today.
ReplyDeleteI combined this prompt and a 30 Days of Haiga prompt to create a Haibun.
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A lighter piece to welcome the weekend. My poem for Day 6:
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Not quite the cheerful poems of some of the other respondees -http://www.katelynthomas.com/2017/10/octpowrimo-day-6-loving-las-vegas.html
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ReplyDeleteHello all! My entry for Day 6 , hope you like it :-)
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Day 6: The Still Ferris Wheel https://experiencewriting.com/2017/10/06/writober-day-6-abandoned-amusement-park-scooby-doo-where-are-you/
ReplyDeleteLovely. I enjoyed your poem and the exquisite photographs. xoA
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Posting on behalf of Sudha Reddy. See her poem below.
ReplyDeleteThe prompt - while I was pacing the floor...
Is a relevant topic for almost all, at some point in their lives.
As an obstetrician, I have seen many, to-be fathers pacing the floor nervously in labor and delivery units...
Though in those situations I don’t have the luxury to do the same ....both for space ,time and of course mainly for the message it gives about being nervous....😃
By training we stay calm ..... so as to stay focused in emergency situations.
Once the emergency situation is handled, then I return home drained emotionally, then I need my leisure walk to replenish my stores.
A Walk to the Park
Every drop of emotional energy is precious to me
How fast it depletes with any restlessness within me
Leaves a shadow, which is limp and weak in me
The leisure walk to the park works for me.
Keeping the pace and moving the air synchronously
Away from home I went with my shadow in me
The vision of the children playing reached me
The sound of the happy noises they make surround me
Release of the endorphin pump thumping in me
By then the happy thoughts are flooding within me
Happiness is contagious and thus already infected me
I walked back home, with the same shadow in me
The negative thoughts didn’t seem to bother me
There was a palpable shift from then and now within me
Realized that the brain is not capable of duality in me
Cannot have positive and negative thoughts at a time within me
One has to give way to the other.....
I smiled to myself.....
How I worried...
And how simple is , not to worry.....
Keep smiling.....
Stay positive....
And Spread the cheer....😊💕🙏sr
After thought....
Only if worry, could fix our problems.....
You are allowed to worry all day everyday .
Worry only drains you , it is a negative energy
And makes us incapable to plan or act objectively to fix our problems
Being positive helps get Creative brain working and thus creative solutions for our problems
Problem solved then no worries...😊💕🙏sr
i like the philosophy of balance in your words
DeleteHere's my contribution for today. I hope the formatting shows on whatever device you're using to read it! https://seekingmeme.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/high-anxiety/
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ReplyDeleteI'm catching up as I've had a mind numbing cold.
Here are links for Day 6 and Day 1. Thank you! :)
https://saschadarlington.me/2017/10/06/a-butterflys-space/
https://saschadarlington.me/2017/10/06/the-genius-is-in-the-details-amwriting/
My favorite line: In nature’s energy
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thoughts grow.
I like it!
Day 6 -
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Here's my Day 6 poem:
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Sixth Day: "Pacing"
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My contribution to Day 6. Off prompt
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Mine's a little dark today...
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Lol how will I get to day 31 of this?
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https://medium.com/@tolu/5-x-8-40-b8f02f2be466 …
#OctPoWriMo
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Your prompt was perfect for today. Here is my submission for day 6: http://tao-talk.com/2017/10/06/day-6-octwripomo-shadows/
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Day 6: https://instagram.com/p/BZ7pD6LnouI/
ReplyDeleteBecause I am 46 late for Day 6...
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I don't pace any more. I'm a parking ticketer and walk all day long. I have nothing left over http://hittingthemark-jones.blogspot.ca/2017/10/keeping-pace.html
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Day 6 "the tick and tock"
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https://mandibelle16.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/octpowrimo-day-6-ffftaw-poem-bop-reviving-amwriting-poetry-flashfiction/
ReplyDeleteA night poem
My Day 6 https://zwabisabi.blogspot.com/2017/10/mantra.html
ReplyDeleteI continue to struggle with my fear of falling while running. I just keep taking one small step after another
https://prettykooldame.com/2017/10/06/octpowrimo-day-6-51-50/
ReplyDeletea quatern from me :)
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