May your words, your poetry, never end.
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Poetry Prompts:
Write until your heart is content about what endless means to you in love and/or in life.
Suggested poetry form: Create a form of your own and share it with us.
Word Prompts:
Endless
Infinity
Eternal
Sharing
Love
I want to thank all of the volunteers that shared their hearts in the prompts, comments, and poetry; there wouldn't be an OctPoWriMo without you!
And to all of the poets who wrote their hearts onto the page, we are so glad you journeyed with us and I hope you come back again next year!
Remember, our prompts are only suggestions, you can find your inspiration wherever your muse leads you. Please visit the other participants, share the hashtag, #OctPoWriMo on social media, and share your link in the comments below. Let us know how this journey into poetry is going for you.
Hop on over to Poets on the Page during the rest of the year for inspiration to stir your words.
Willow a.k.a. MDragonwillow, author of Wild Woman Waking & Dancing within Shadow, is a Bodywork transformer, dancing poet, motivator of words, magical instigator and creatrix of #OctPoWriMo & #PoetsonthePage.
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my endless thanks to all of you :) I've enjoyed this journey <3
ReplyDeletehttps://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/poetry-prompt-day-31-endless/
“Together we can search the truth”
DeleteGood questions, good answer “how come?”
Thanks so much for all of the support and lovely comments. Do stay in touch and if you hear of any creatives who would like Life Coaching pass on my email : samallencoachingcreatively@gmail.com (I do sessions via Skype) This is my lens poem..
ReplyDeletehttps://peacockpoetryblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/youve-been-framed/
You caught the spirit
Deletehttps://paeansunpluggedblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/lessons-for-life/
ReplyDeleteI entered OctPoWriMo on a whim and a gentle nudge from my wife. Never expected to be here today. I have missed out on few days and hopefully will write on those prompts soon. Thank you, everyone for your wonderful support and kind words. :)
ReplyDeleteThe Journey
Last one for this year.
ReplyDeleteI greatly appreciate that nobody referred to my poems discussing depression, grief, or feeling like an outcast as "cathartic" this time around or implied that someday I would be "healed" of my "brokenness" as if I were not currently a whole person. I am what I am, and that is never likely to be a ray of sun shining through a rainbow unicorn fart.
Come by anytime for my photography offerings and dark and sarcastic poetry.
What It Is
I was so happy to see you again this year. I like your work, and I'm glad that there's space for darkness. To read about someone elses, gives permission/space to mine.
DeleteI'm learning more and more how important it is for people to simply be met where they are, to be genuinly listened to and nothing else. I thought I knew that before, but I guess that was my head. Now my hearts knows it, through experiencing it.
Thank you for sharing who you are.
Cara, your poems are reality check. They showcase human emotions. Not every life is strewn with roses. Happy to have your company in this journey this year too. Hope we continue as long as the words touch our soul. :)
DeleteYou know, I read you and never thought of you as other than gifted and imaginitive. You journey the spectrum of emotions and illumine the way.
DeleteI keep seeing us all arriving at the station. Thank you for sharing this journey
DeleteThank you all for the amazing moments wrapped in varied hues.Hope to see you all next year touching and warming hearts with your healing words :)
ReplyDeletehttps://musingssurvive.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-new-beginning.html
Last one for this year. This has been endless fun. Thanks for all the prompts and the kind words.
ReplyDeletehttps://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/endless-hope/
Sharing another one which was written almost two years ago.
ReplyDeletehttps://paeansunpluggedblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/the-endless-wait/
https://castingsuspicion.blogspot.com/2018/10/think-about-it.html
ReplyDeleteThank you all you lovely people for a wondrous month of shared poems.
Different from your usual style and I liked the sparkle!
DeleteReally happy to have made it to the end of OctPoWriMo: if my little boy had arrived on time I might not have done so! (He was due on the 27th though so if he wants to show up now, that would be handy!)
ReplyDeleteI've ironically written quite a short poem today, figuring that less is more. I was inspired by yesterday's form - the Pleiade - with its seven lines, and Hortensia Anderson's additional restriction of 6 syllables per line. It occurred to me yesterday that 7x6=42, and that as all Douglas Adams fans know, 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. So in reversing the form (today creating a sestet of 7-syllable lines), I created a short form that is actually the gateway to everything we need thanks to its 42 total syllables. You can call it the Deep Thought form if you like (as in Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it takes the computer named Deep Thought 7.5 million years to calculate that 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything).
http://biancasbookblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/octpowrimo-2018-day-31-endless.html
Or even the Molybdenum form, since "The atomic number of Molybdenum is 42, as mentioned by Elliot Cooper.
DeleteCoincidence? I think not, because molybdenum is a very important element for humans and plants in minute quantities for proper growth."
https://www.quora.com/Why-and-how-is-42-the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-everything
I couldn't leave a comment on your blog. This is it:
DeleteI like this image of spiralling infinity. And I might give your form a try too :)
Thank you!
DeleteFunny that you had problems posting a comment on my blog. I'll look into it.
Sometimes I have to leave Safari and use Chrome to leave comments. I don't know why, but maybe try it?
DeleteI did a variation on a loop poem today. Instead of starting each line with the last word of the previous line, I did each stanza. A Step
ReplyDeleteI want to tell everyone how satisfying it has been this month being a part of the OctWriPoMo2018 writing and reading community. Every day – and sometimes after midnight the night before – it was happy anticipation to see what the next theme, prompts, and forms would be. I got into a routine, one of the only regular routines since I retired, and took joy (or whatever emotion feeling at the time) in writing, then going through the comments section of the day, then through the link up list to read others' work and comment. Several of us are now connected via WP or Blogger. I've learned a lot from each of you and it knocks me over how STRONG each and every one of us are. I never thought of poets as being necessarily strong before. To be able to live through so much of what this world and life dishes out, then to act as a scribe to it takes immeasurable strength. If I don't see you “out there”, I really hope to see you for OctWriPoMo2019! I'd also like to thank the generous host and all of the volunteers who took their time and creative spirits to come up with the provocative prompts!
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You are so right! Thank you (and everyone else!) for all your hard work!
DeleteWhat a beautiful thing to share.
DeleteHi, beautiful poets! Hoping this Wednesday has you feeling inspired!
ReplyDeleteBring a Haibun today! My first addition to this lovely site! Thank you for offering a great place to meet and read others motivational poetry pieces...
https://wolffpoetry.com/as-a-skyline-haibun-poem-by-linda-j-wolff/
Here is my link for Day 31 - Endless. Thanks for a great month of poetry to share.
ReplyDeletehttps://poetryforhealing.com/2018/10/31/endless-cycle/
Endless Road
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun ride it has been! From heartfelt musings, challenging poetry forms, thought-provoking word prompts to endless learning and seeking – It’s been such a pleasure and privilege!
ReplyDeleteI thank you all for your constant support and encouragement! God bless!
Here’s mine take on today's prompt -
http://iscriblr.com/dare-to-survive/
Calling it “EXPRESSIONS!”
Stay in touch! Thanks to all the poets and those special folks who worked on the site, the prompts, the forms!https://barbarahuntington.com/2018/10/31/octpowrimo-2018-day-31-endless/
ReplyDeleteSad to see this end...thank you
ReplyDeletehttps://talesofafamily.blog/2018/10/31/endurance/#more-14947
https://missdragonlady.blogspot.com/2018/10/octpowrimo-day-31-endless.html
ReplyDeleteIt is over. What a ride! Thanks to all who read my stuff. I am humbled by the feedback. Here is my last Haiku of OctPoWriMo 2018. With Love
ReplyDeleteYou know I never actually expected to make it to the end. Thought I'd dry up or just get lazy around halfway. But I didn't and some of my best work so far came out during this. This was a wild ride and I loved every second of it - even the frustrated writer's block hair removal moments.
ReplyDeleteSo, in honor of that...
Title: "Revelator"
https://spiralartist.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/revelator-day-thirty-one-end/
Ahhhhhh last one https://hittingthemark-jones.blogspot.com/2018/11/add-three-words.html
ReplyDeleteThank you, Morgan, for the wonderful opportunity.It did heal many wounds.
ReplyDeleteGratitude endless.... passing forward
ReplyDeleteEndless
Endless hate
Hate the different
Different from you
You created hell around
Around the world hate spreads
Endless unconditional love
Love like to revere the difference
Difference anything and similar
Similarly you create peace around
Around the world you spread Love .... sr
It's been really wonderful connecting with all the various wonderful wordsmiths out there. I've been really ill for almost a week, so I wasn't able to write all the way till the end but I've made many, many new and wonderful friends and renewed friendships with some I've missed greatly.
ReplyDeleteHope to see y'all out there, and keep in touch - come by the blog, I do sometimes post there, or else I can be found on FB as shuku.li@facebook.com
Going to miss all of you till the next round, and I'm only sorry I couldn't sign off with a proper poem!
Good beginnings
ReplyDeletebelieve in engaging life
Dignified end( ing).... sr