Day 23 already! Today’s prompt is See Me. I love the simplicity and strength of this statement. What is it that you wish others knew about you? What would you want those in your closest relationships to acknowledge? What is your truth?
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Suggested Poetry Form: Haibun
Word Prompts: beneath
uncover
clear
unspoken
truth
Remember our prompts are just suggestions. Follow your muse.
Please read the poetry of other OctPoWriMo participants and leave comments.
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This morning’s prompt encouraged me to share a poem which I feel a bit vulnerable about sharing!
ReplyDeletehttps://peacockpoetryblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/now-you-see-me/
beautiful and inviting
Deletehttps://paeansunpluggedblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/what-do-you-see/
ReplyDeleteI am me :)
ReplyDeletehttps://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/day-23-see-me/
Nobody owns me.See me.
ReplyDeletehttps://musingssurvive.blogspot.com/2018/10/she-is-truth.html
lovely
DeleteThank you, Ron :)
DeleteMostly a Tanka, although I suppose it could technically be a Haibun due to the short, snarky note tacked onto the end.
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And we have a right to our unspoken truths, don't we? Let's face it we all wear masks to some degree or another. Love the way you capture this here!
ReplyDeleteThe words 'See Me' took me to the online generation.
ReplyDeleteFireflies
Brilliant take on the prompt but also full of meaning.
DeleteI agree, brilliant perspective on the prompt and current culture-- our need for our lives to be witnessed.
DeleteHaibun plus erasure
ReplyDeletehttps://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/see-me/
That is very beautiful Jane.
Deletehttps://castingsuspicion.blogspot.com/2018/10/whisperer.html
ReplyDeleteReally love the depth and character you evoke and the voice description is great!
DeleteThank you
DeleteMy take on today's prompt: https://unassortedstories.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/hard-copy/
ReplyDeletemy take for the day,
ReplyDeletehttps://syncwithdeep.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/naked-truth/
This one was surprisingly easy to write: Drown in Me
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ReplyDeleteThose last three lines are the perfect gut punch. Beautifully and sensitively written.
DeleteA rather macabre, weird-ish take on the prompt - yup, direction went way off magnetic north for this one.
ReplyDeletehttps://shukuen.blogspot.com/2018/10/octpowrimo-day-23-atomic-non-blonde.html
You write brilliantly.
DeleteThank you so much Bianca! It was an interesting write, that's for sure (but only after some sort of inspiration).
DeleteAlmost forgot to do OctPoWriMo today!
ReplyDeleteBut yay, haibun time!
https://biancasbookblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/octpowrimo-2018-day-23-see-me.html
Based on a conversation I had yesterday.
I love the image of the visual yin-yang. The haiku is lovely, and it sums everything up so beautifully.
DeleteThank you!
DeleteThank you for the prompt and the new form.
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Here's my link for the prompt See Me - A Haibun
ReplyDeletehttps://poetryforhealing.com/2018/10/23/blind-to-me-a-haibun/
Today I got intensely personal. Please enjoy The Wall
ReplyDeleteOctPoWriMo 2018 seems to make it more and more personal as the end draws near. I admit that some of these prompts gave me incentive to dig into the lower points of my life. Today's prompt was no exception.
ReplyDeleteTitle: "Trigger Creep"
https://spiralartist.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/trigger-creep-day-twenty-three-see-me/
“Thoughts of the trigger keep pulling me closer” That is an observation I won’t forget.
DeleteHigh blood pressure? Get a cat it'll kill you or cure you. https://hittingthemark-jones.blogspot.com/2018/10/blood-drops.html
ReplyDeleteHere's my take on the prompt for today -
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https://missdragonlady.blogspot.com/2018/10/octpowrimo-day-23-see-me.html
ReplyDeleteI dreamt of a day when I won’t feel the need for you to see me .
ReplyDeleteAfter a long time trying to prove my worth. Finally it doesn’t matter to me anymore. I am finally free when I realized that I didn’t need anyone to measure me . I am my own measure to get better every moment . I set my standards and my self worth. I try to be s better human being every day every interaction. As long as I am honest and try to be true to self and to my values and convictions. I feel less need to be recognized.or for others to see me . The reward and recognition also appear to have changed overtime . Now I value my freedom of spirit , time and thus peace of mind, more than anything... of course to try and be a human first is the harder task than to be seen.. sr
You can see through me
I can uncover come clear
You can see past me
See beneath me
I raise and see you in eyes
My heart not crushed
Not above mine
I see eyes at level
Not below mine
My eyes glitter
Through your judgement
My heart beats
No one to judge
Freedom of the spirit
My soul shines ... sr
Here's my response for today...I'm running a little late!
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This absolutely awesome
DeleteLoved it .. sr
Still today on the left coast (only 9:08)https://barbarahuntington.com/2018/10/23/octpowrimo-2018-day-23-see-me/
ReplyDeleteA Haibun titled “Dear God” https://leonaslines.com/2018/10/23/dear-god/
ReplyDeletePerfect haiku in the end .. thank you sr
ReplyDeleteA series of haiku
ReplyDeleteYou don’t see me ....
Highly focused
Often gets blamed
Fir not seeing me
Are they born that way
Or the task on hand
Make a habit
Habit to excel
A second nature is born
To invisibility
Missing much for self
Hyper focused left out
A disability
Tunnel vision
See part of a whole
Vulnerability
For not seeing you
Don’t say I don’t see
I see the task ... sr
Highly focused
Conditional Love
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